<p>hey all, I know that Harvard, Wharton, etc. are target schools. But where can I find a list of all the target schools for IB?</p>
<p>Yeah I wanna know too^
Also most IBs said they hav around 20-25 odd Regional Target schools which are like a league below the main targets. Does anyone hav a list of those?</p>
<p>yes, I know of several target schools for major IBs...to find out, all you have to do is go to the respective firm's website and click on a button called "Careers"...from there you will find a bunch of links...just explore around a bit and you will find a list of target schools that the firm recruits at....you will also find profiles of analysts, associates etc and where they went to school, what they majored in etc.....for example, the link below shows the target schools for Lehman Brothers...the link also shows which schools are recruited for which functions within the IB</p>
<p>School</a> Contacts - Recruiting Contacts - Apply To Lehman - Careers - Lehman Brothers</p>
<p>Another link posted below shows the target schools for another IB called Lazard</p>
<p>Lazard</a> Ltd</p>
<p>What makes a school a "target" is it's ability to have on campus interviews (different from information sessions) and the ability to place many graduates in some of the hardest banks to snag in the country. </p>
<p>There is no "list." If I asked you for a list of elite colleges could you give me a link? No. There are hard targets, soft targets, and some that are on the edge. Schools like hypsw, mit, columbia, dartmouth, duke and stuff are hard targets, schools like chicago, nw, all other ivies, stern, berkeley and the such are softer targets and schools like umich, gtown, uva, ucla are all on the edge. There is no "list" so quit asking for one.</p>
<p>If BB analysts, associates, and VPs come to your school to wine and dine you, your school is a target. A 'target' means that the firms ACTIVELY and HEAVILY recruit there. Just because they hold two information sessions a semester and do on-campus interviews at your school doesn't make your school a target, by any means. To put it in perspective, my friends at Wharton get treated to private dinners with the recruiting team from BBs. Do with that as you will.</p>
<p>Exactly ^^. Many schools have info sessions but that doesn't make them a target.</p>
<p>How to know which schools are targets, or in other words, how to know which one of the schools on the list given in the firm's website are ones in which BBs come to wine and dine the students?</p>
<p>Therein lies the rub.</p>
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<p>We don't. We can know, almost for certain, that whyp do. But after that I think it's up in the air.</p>
<p>So can it be concluded that in general, kids from schools like Stern, Ross, McIntire etc are at a disadvantage compared to kids at HYPW in terms of getting hired ? (I'm extrapolating this based on the number of kids hired by major BBs each year, which seem to be higher at Wharton and slightly lower at Stern, McIntire etc)</p>
<p>What I want to know is these "numbers" you speak of. You're still in HS and clearly you have not come across any SA lists from BBs.</p>
<p>Yes quagmire. HYPSWM are the best of the best.</p>
<p>Well, click on the link below...that's where i got all my "numbers" (well, for wharton atleast)</p>
<p>I can't seem to find the link for McIntire right now, but i clearly remember that the number of students hired from Wharton for firms like GS, Citigroup etc are much higher at Wharton that at McIntire</p>
<p>Does the link work for others?</p>
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<p>well try this...</p>
<p>i found my "numbers" on page 5</p>
<p>It doesn't take employment #'s to know that Wharton is far better than UVA in terms of finance.</p>
<p>"Just because they hold two information sessions a semester and do on-campus interviews at your school doesn't make your school a target, by any means."</p>
<p>Your snideness aside, I disagree with this. It doesn't really matter what your definition of 'target' is and whether senior bankers are bringing you to three dinners, one dinner or no dinners, if banks are making the effort of holding info sessions and conducting on-campus interviews at your school, then, at that point, it is up to you whether you get the job and the school ceases to be important. Now, I realize that you think you're hot stuff and all-knowing because you got a summer analyst offer, but coming from someone who got three full-time IB BB offers, went to one for three years, moved to a hedge fund, top MBA program and then another hedge fund, you come to realize that humility and being able to effectively work with others are the most important things to being successful and that type of attitude is not going to get you very far.</p>
<p>While I certainly agree with the poster who said there is no hard and fast 'target' list, judging by my friends and my BB IB analyst classes, the 25 schools that I have seen most represented were:</p>
<p>Harvard
Penn (just about all from Wharton)
Princeton
Yale
Dartmouth
Brown
Stanford
Columbia
Duke
Williams
Amherst
MIT
Georgetown
Cornell
UVA
BC
UChicago
Northwestern
Wellseley
Bowdoin
Colgate
Middlebury
Hamilton
Cal/Berkeley
UMichigan</p>