<p>i would have placed UVa in the top 5, doesnt that almost always make 2nd place for undergrad business behind wharton?</p>
<p>clubbiscuit aren't those who go to stern usually rejected from Wharton?
i got into stern recently and my SAT is not high.</p>
<p>"columbia should be in place of dartmouth and stanford instead of duke"</p>
<p>You kidding? There is no way Columbia is head of Dartmouth. Dartmouth is definitely a tier above Columbia. Dartmouth students get recruited more hands down. Dartmouth does even better in terms of per capita.</p>
<p>Haas actually has very low placement due to its location and trends of grads to settle down in CA instead.</p>
<p>any clue how ucla, u.wisconsin, boston college, and william and mary do? U.michigan and UVA are on my list as well so it's encouraging to see those 2 schools being mentioned.</p>
<p>Those top 5 seem to jive with my IB analyst class as well. </p>
<p>"your list seems to neglect the rest of Penn. It has a rather stellar economics department and since all students go through the same recruiting system, they all do quite well. There is simply no way the wharton grads would be #2 and Penn writ large would not even be mentioned. Simply put this is empirically incorrect"</p>
<p>In my analyst class, Penn (Wharton) was actually #1 most represented and there was no one from Penn (non-Wharton) at all. In talking to a friend from Penn (non-Wharton), who joined the class below me mid-year, he told me how difficult it is for anyone non Wharton to be recruited as well. So, my experience also confirms the OP's original conclusions.</p>
<p>I've been saying this since I interned myself last summer. People who don't have any clue about finance assume that places like Yale and Brown are good for IB, or that Columbia has some sort of advantage because its in NYC. In reality, none of these are true. </p>
<p>Just to address a few points above:</p>
<ul>
<li>Duke is easily one of the best 6-7 places to go if you want to do IB or MC (I was actually at a different BB and the best U-grads were Wharton, Princeton, Harvard, and then a tie between Duke, Dartmouth, and Michigan). .</li>
<li>Non-Wharton Penn isn't that good for recruiting.</li>
<li>Yale and Brown aren't good for IB or MC, though probably relatively better for MC.</li>
</ul>
<p>And finally:
- IB isn't the best place to be right now regardless...do consulting instead lol.</p>
<p>lvilleslacker:</p>
<p>"columbia should be in place of dartmouth and stanford instead of duke."</p>
<p>Clearly you have no idea what you are talking about...sorry....are you still a high school junior?</p>
<p>Also, regarding Stern's placement:
- I'm sure Stern SAT scores are lower than Wharton's - whoever said otherwise is probably wrong.
- Stern does not have nearly as much front-office placement as other top privates, though Stern students DO have lots of internal finance, risk management, and middle office positions.
- Stern's alumni network isn't any better than other top privates, and alumni network is one of the best determinants of IB placement.</p>
<p>Ib is def going down the drain, consulting is probabably the better field to go into right now....lol just my 2 cents</p>
<p>Gee, all of my non-wharton penn friends seem to have done pretty well in recruiting. I call shennanigans</p>
<p>Why does almost everyone seem to forget UVA's Mcintire??? It is very well placed in BW (#2, just neck-on-neck with Wharton) and also respectable in USNews (#9, if I'm not mistaken). It's considerably cheaper than the rest (even for OOS students), it has very good job placements, it has a new state-of-the-art building and everything. It definitely deserves to be mentioned here together with the other great business schools.</p>
<p>Your list is very biased, because Dartmouth and Duke certainly aren't as highly ranked as you think. I would switch them with UVA and Stanford, also including Columbia, Yale and MIT. UVA and Stanford consistently place MANY of their students in i-banking. All the biggest companies go to both places to recruit very heavily.</p>