This is also noticeable among neighborhood rabbis and halakhic decisors.
Modi'in Illit is a clear example—at least among the older generation of rabbis in Modi'in Illit.
And some of the Haredim from the outset are foreigners with matriculation exams and a broad general education.

It was also true in Ponevezh: at first they accepted students from the old Yishuv and others.
Later they saw that they outperformed the graduates of the cheders in systematic and orderly learning, and in the end also in achievements.
(Some of them were funny—they came to classes with a pencil and notebook 😂)
And the kollel fellows talked about this with Rabbi Shach—that they send their sons to cheders and not to Chinuch Atzmai schools or, God forbid, state-religious schools, and to small yeshivas and not, heaven forbid, to "treif" yeshiva high schools—and in practice the results were worse than those of the ones who sent them to schools and to those "treif" yeshiva high schools…
Since then Rabbi Shach prohibited accepting into Ponevezh anyone who had not studied in small yeshivas, and people stopped complaining…
Though it’s reasonable that they think in a more organized way, and therefore reach much more impressive achievements and are appointed to leading positions.
That is, as long as we count the most talented and not the most well-connected; I’m afraid that is now changing.