Semi-Targets?

<p>I'm still in high school, so I know I'm probably thinking too far in advance, but I just had a quick question about investment banking recruiting.</p>

<p>It seems that everyone ambiguously throws around the idea that Ivy-league kids get IB jobs and everyone else has a much harder time. I was wondering what about schools that are not in that athletic conference, but are still top-tier schools. Some that come to mind are Duke, Northwestern, Georgetown, Emory, Wake Forest, Tufts, Amherst, Wesleyan, Stanford, Chicago, Hopkins, etc. Students at these schools might not play football against Harvard, but virtually all of them are just as qualified as their peers at Princeton, et al. Basically I'm asking, "When people say "ivy league kids get IB jobs" do they literally mean kids at those 8 schools, or do they mean kids at elite schools regardless of athletic conference (like the ones I listed above)?" </p>

<p>I'm not naive enough to think that a kid from Northwest Alaska State College has as good of chance of breaking into IB as a kid from Cornell - but am I being equally naive for thinking that a kid from Duke does? </p>

<p>Note: I'm not certain at all if I want to do investment banking (I'm still in high school...) and so I'm not going to pick my school based on perceived chances of breaking into this industry. I'm just curious...</p>

<p>They mean elite schools in general. Duke, northwestern, Georgetown and Stanford all place a ton of people into IB.</p>

<p>In many cases, those ‘lesser’ schools do better than Ivy Leagues. For example, I see more kids from UMich Ross and UChicago than I do from Cornell and Brown. Also, business schools tend to be better represented, and most Ivy League schools don’t have undergrad business programs.</p>