Right. Like MO.
The problem is that those parents want their kids in the same class as the kids from klei kodesh families with no internet (and frankly, I don’t blame them for that), otherwise, they would have done what you suggest.
I don’t disagree (and wouldn’t call it a problem either). This is directed originally at Abba_S, who was concerned about affordability. As long as you admit admission policies can be used to guide a school to be “elite”, elite is determined by those who make the policies, and they can choose whatever criteria they want. Those who wish to be elite in other ways (a Yeshivish type school with strong academics is a good example) can (and have every right to) open up such a school if they so desire. Others (such as Rechnitz) have the right to support those schools or not as they desire.
gavra: Elite schools only work in-town, where there are many yeshivas each catering to a different segment. OTOH, OOT where there is one or few yeshivas, there is no option of choosing another yeshiva.
Lakewood IS “in town”. After all, they have a nut bar 🙂
Besides that I don’t see what your point is.