<p>Which would be the best school to go to in order to get into investment banking, or rather the finance field in general. From the research I've done, Dartmouth appears to be the best. Its usually right under Harvard, Penn, Princteon, and MIT in terms of the colleges ibanking analysts attended, which percentage wise, I think is pretty damn good since it only has a total of 4000 undergraduate students. Duke usually would appear after Dartmouth with around 1 or 2 less analysts, but also has way more students. The problem with Penn SAS is that I cannot distinguish between Wharton and Penn, so I have no idea how good recruiting at Penn SAS is compared to other schools. I would be majoring in economics at all three schools and this is of course inferring that I will get accepted at all three schools, which I may not. I've done a good deal of research, but I wanted some advice from other people.</p>
<p>Dartmouth > Duke >> Penn SAS
Dartmouth is up there with Harvard, Penn, Princteon, and MIT in terms of pure numbers. Even though it has a smaller undergrad population. It’s is often argued that Wharton doesn’t have much of an advantage over Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Duke. Don’t pay attention to Penn SAS students who claim Penn SAS is actually good for ib or any finance related field. It’s not, and it’s far from Wharton level. Recruiters don’t think much of students of Penn SAS, which they consider as ones who can’t even transfer internally to Wharton, when they recruit at Penn.</p>
<p>If you go to Penn, there’s the possibility of internally transferring to Wharton, which you should seriously consider if you want to go into banking. Wharton is the top feeder for finance, far better than either Dartmouth or Duke.</p>
<p>Go to Dartmouth. Internal transfers into Wharton are pretty rare.</p>
<p>Yea, I was already leaning towards Dartmouth, but I just wanted some outside opinions. Thanks for the advice.</p>