I checked whether what David Brooks says about colleges here is true, and it's not. https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2021/01/23/i-dont-work-at-a-finishing-school/

It's in fact quite unusual to have more students from the top 1% than the bottom 60%. At UW-Madison those numbers are 1.6% and 30.1%.

The total number of colleges in the country with more top 1% students than bottom 60% students is seventeen.

What's actually true is that selective colleges, including Madison, have tons of students from the top 20% and very few from the bottom 20%.

Brooks could have said that -- but it doesn't fit the story he wants to tell about limousine leftists teaching trust-fund princes.

Here's the actual paper by a bunch of economists that gathered and analyzed the data: https://opportunityinsights.org/paper/undermatching/

A note: many commenters saying that "elite just means a list of 20 schools and 10 of those really do have more richies than normies."

If that's who Brooks is talking about, it's a tiny segment of the "professoriate" & a tiny part of higher ed's effect on inequality.

And it is most certainly not the primary group of professors characterized in the op/ed pages as louche wokemeisters!