Yes, but Harvard and Yale are higher education institutions whereas Eton is a secondary education institution. That was hugh3's point: "the British elite will judge you not only by your university but by your high school."
I want to say the English equivalent of America's Ivy League universities like Harvard and Yale are its older private universities like Oxford and Cambridge, but the truth is the reverse (Oxford, for example, dates back to about the 9th century!)
Re:The University Has No Clothes
by anchorsteam on Sunday May 22, 2011 @08:42PM
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Our Eton would be Andover.
That exists here in America too. Harvard and Yale account for quite a lot of our top executive and judicial branch posts. Most famously, every one of the 9 members of the Supreme Court is either from Harvard Law School or Yale Law School. In their own way, Harvard and Yale are America's Eton - where future leaders go to hobnob with other future leaders.