[Nasrudith]

The difference is are they getting in because of money and connections vs qualifications money helped acquire.

Natural aptitude and/or sheer obsessive determination can allow anyone to compete with the second - and crucially the money must be spent well to help - if it is just more posh in surroundings but doesn't actually prepare them better than say an average Brooklyn High School then money isn't actually propping them up.

Meanwhile in the first only those with money and connections can "compete".