Yeah, I guess…it’s just that Wharton maintains its allure today despite schools such as WashU’s business school having students with similar or slightly better stats. WashU isn’t the only one, there are maybe 2-3 more that are pretty close (mid-high 1400 range for the b-school). I feel like if that is so shiny to students then the allure of the UG program should wane vs. others, though its location in that part of the northeast is of course a huge advantage because of recruiting from companies located up north. That effect is hard to compete with considering the huge chunk of those from the midatlantic that attend elite schools and can sometimes only see themselves back in the midatlantic, particularly the northeast post-grad. And most of all, the more prestigious companies are ultimately headquartered there so people will take the prestige over a competitive offer elsewhere (like if you were offered 60-65k from a company in Atlanta vs. 70k at JP Morgan…despite how much farther 60-65k takes you in the south, you’ll take the other offer I would imagine. Note this is just a random hypothetical as I know so little about BBA placement other than the median start salaries of some of these programs)