JDB,
Firstly, the fact that y can only point to one MO yeshiva (university) is exactly the point. (And one beis midrash… Lakewood and Mir alone have numerous packed batei Midrash.)
Secondly, even if you are are right (all night, top learners, major poskim… hu???) which is quite debatable (I’m being courteous), the percentage of guys doing that in the YU system is very small given the number of students enrolled yeshiva college and riets. There are a few thousand guys in the institution, and very few of them are the way you described. Things always look better from the outside…
Thirdly, the vast majority of the serious learners in YU will NOT be sending their children to YU. They will be sending their children to the REGULAR Yeshiva systems in both EY and America. Many of the more serious learners in YU don’t even want to be there. It’s either parental pressure or other reasons which have forced them to be there and they are making the best of it. They don’t believe in it. Many/Most (obviously not all) of the YU rosh yeshivas sent their sons through the REGULAR yeshivas and daughters to regular BY’s and they are now part of the regular Charedi world, many of them learning full time in EY or Lakewood.
[In general, I’m not sure why it makes sense to compare the lowest caliber of the yeshiva system to the highest caliber of the non-yeshiva system… apples and apples….]
As I said, MO is terminally ill.