I’ve read some of the threads and gathered that the ivies (among others) are your best shot for best job placement. Like my other post about Journalism, wouldn’t a lesser-known college in a big city be beneficial? For example, for Investment Banking, would it make sense to go to a school in Chicago, NY, DC, LA, etc. that wasn’t a ‘name brand’.
Banking and Consulting are very prestige based. Going to a not well known school in the City will still make you a non target. So you’ll need to try harder to break into banking compared to the average Joe Ivy. Getting into a target school is the easiest way to breaking in. I’ve read on some threads by those in the industry that taking on debt to go to a target school was well worth it.
I agree. If TOU want to get into investment banking just attending an icy wouldn’t be enough: it’d have to be of the top five.
Instead of ranking the ivies,
I break the ivies into 3 tiers:
tier 1: harvard, Yale and Princeton
Tier 2: penn and columbia
Tier 3: Cornell and Dartmouth
Btw I purposefully forgot brown as a joke 
@jfowl216 Your tier ranking is categorically wrong. There are only three types of schools: Targets, Semi-Targets, and Non targets. Target schools are schools that most if not ALL firms routinely recruit from. These are the name brand Ivy + MIT, Stanford, Duke etc. Semi-Targets are schools where some but not all banking and consulting firms recruit from. These include top state schools and research universities like Michigan, UVA. Non target schools are schools that banks do not recruit from.
Target = Ivies, MIT, Stanford, Duke, UChicago, Northwestern, Top LACs (Amherst, Williams, Wellesley)
Semi-Target = Top state schools and privates (Michigan, Texas, UVA, Berkeley, UCLA, Rice, Boston College)
Non-Target = everything else
Prestige first, location second.
To answer your question: Yes, breaking in will probably be easier if you are attending SUNY versus Arizona State.