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One of the things you can nearly bank on if you’re applying to any elite business school is that if you earned your undergraduate degree from the same university, the odds of acceptance begin to fall into your favor.

The largest single group of students in the Class of 2013 at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business Class had their undergraduate diplomas stamped at the business school’s parent university. Stanford undergrads make up an estimated 7.4% of the class with roughly 30 of the 397 students enrolled.

U Penn (6.3% of the class), Yale (5.9%, Harvard (5.2%), and the University of Virginia (3.0%) follow Stanford in making up the top five feeder colleges to Stanford’s business school, according to an analysis by Poets&Quants. The analysis is based on a study of Internet records that allowed Poets&Quants to identify and confirm the educational and work backgrounds of 269 of the 397 students in the Class of 2013. We then estimated the total number of students from each feeder company based on the 68% sample of the entire class.

25% of class boasts an Ivy League undergraduate degree

Anyway you slice it, this is an elite group, for sure. About 25% of Stanford’s class hails from one of the original eight Ivy League schools. That compares to roughly 21.2% of the MBA students at Columbia Business School, 30.0% at Harvard Business School, and 33.1% at Wharton. Toss Stanford into that Ivy League bunch and roughly one of every three MBA students in the GSB class that entered last fall went to one of only six U.S. highly selective schools.

The only five non-U.S. universities to make the top 25 feeder schools? The Indian Institute of Technology, Peking University, the New Economic School in Russia, the University of Cambridge, and the University of New South Wales.

Indian Institute of Technology grads at Stanford among the very best

Of the seven confirmed admits from the Indian Institute of Technology, two each came from the Madras and Kanpur campuses, while one each came from Bombay, Chennai, and Kharpagpur. To get into Stanford with an IIT degree is no slam dunk. One IIT enrolled student, a former chemical engineer for Schlumberger, secured a rank of 0.1% among the 200,000 students who took the IIT entrance exam. Another, a former electrical engineer for Juniper Networks, ranked 179th out of 100,000 applicants at IIT in Chennai.

(Check original article for table of the top feeder colleges to Stanford’s Graduate School of Business)

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