Harvard and Stanford: who really gets in?

Early in 2020, Poets & Quants, along with one of the top consulting firms, posted a video with a similar title. I had to turn it off after 15 minutes. My issue? The presenters' insistence that almost all successful applicants, based on data derived from LinkedIn profiles, had graduated from a handful of elite schools and worked at one of the leading consulting firms or investment banks prior to business school. There's a certain truth to this, in that most Ivy students were overachievers in high school, and they are most in demand as new hires for top firms and banks. But...many brilliant and talented people don't go to those name brand schools -- those schools are simply not on everyone's radar -- and thus don't land in the pipeline for the prestige jobs. So they will apply to business schools without that same pedigree but often with stories of determination, persistence, and ...