<p>"The point is that going to a better undergrad program helps, but is not decisive. Not by a long shot. It's not like you can just say that you did undergrad from Harvard, so now you automatically have the right to get into HBS. Ditto for MIT and Sloan. If you graduate last in your class at Harvard or MIT, you're not going to get into a top graduate school. And at every school, somebody has to graduate last."</p>
<p>Sakky, what happens if you were the last ranked in your class but compared to other students in other schools you actually did better even though you were the last in your class. Basically what I'm saying is, say there's a top student from like a CUNY would they take that CUNY student over a Harvard student who was the last graduate in his class even though the Harvard student actually had the better grades? Hopefully my question makes some sense.</p>