> But I'm not sure you could get away with that today. As long as an applicant meets the minimum/lower-end standards for admissions, Ivy League professors in g

> But I'm not sure you could get away with that today. As long as an applicant meets the minimum/lower-end standards for admissions, Ivy League professors in grad schools (law, mba, and PhD-track… not sure about medicine)can and do make by-name requests for admissions that are best not ignored.