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This is one of those benefits of joining a fraternity/sorority. Many do keep collections of old exams, homework assignments, etc. Imagine how that factors with the type of fraternities the uber wealthy join too.
Another strategy is getting accommodations. With money, you can get the kind of diagnoses and paper work to get around a lot. This is not at all to attack the legitimacy of college accommodations - I’ve worked with many who deserved them, and in some ways I was able to access some myself. I’ve also worked with people who did pay for a diagnosis and list of accommodations. This is more of a rich people taking advantage of a system that is mostly inaccessible to poorer people.
Another aspect is “track system.” Eg, my ex husband came from serious money, went to a high school where there was a track for those who wanted to learn, and for those whose parents just wanted them in a nice school with other rich kids. (He would freely admit to switching to the “rich kid” track because he was too lazy to write essays. That continued in college - he used the strategy of having me do it.)
I think this continues in colleges, especially the more expensive privates/Ivys/and even local colleges, in certain major programs. People joke about Business majors, but yeah… There’s an element of institutional knowledge here that can also go with the frats/sororities - who lets you take home the tests, who uses multiple choice, etc…
Always very frustrating to me - I got kicked out of college a couple times trying to get through STEM/engineering while working multiple jobs and pimping myself out on Craigslist. Knowledge is a candle, and lighting others does not extinguish one’s own flame, but damn if don’t have some resentments some times.