Situated within the context of elite education, the empirical focus of this article is on the reflective accounts of former scholarship students from historically disadvantaged communities who attended elite secondary schools in South Africa. Drawing on studies of scholarship students in educational institutions, the article discusses the costs and benefits, as narrated by the students, of their experiences of elite schooling. While there exists a growing body of literature on elite education globally, there is limited research on elite schools in South Africa and scholarship students within these institutions. Thus, the key contribution of the article is the discussion provided on scholarship students in elite schools in South Africa and their experiences of assimilating into the incongruent terrain of the elite school context.

在精英教育的背景下，本文的研究重点是来自历史弱势社区的前奖学金生在南非精英中学上的反思性陈述。本文基于对教育机构奖学金生的研究，讨论了学生叙述的精英教育经历的成本和收益。尽管全球范围内有关精英教育的文献越来越多，但对南非精英学校和这些机构中的奖学金生的研究却很少。因此，本文的主要贡献是对南非精英学校的奖学金生及其融入同等精英学校环境的经验进行了讨论。