<p>"In David Brooks’ “The Social Animal,” The New York Times columnist writes of a so-called “Composure Class” that pretty much fits the profile of any top business school. “They’ve made good grades in school, established solid social connections, joined quality companies, medical practices, and firms,” he writes. The only things you’d add to the list would be an undergraduate degree from a highly selective school and a 700-plus GMAT score.</p>
<p>That’s certainly the case for this fall’s incoming class of MBAs at Columbia Business School, according to an anlysis of Facebook profiles by PoetsandQuants. The top five feeder colleges into Columbia Business School is UPenn, Columbia, Duke, Georgetown, and Harvard, in that order."</p>
<p>It’s interesting to note that only the Ivies, Duke and Geogetown make the top 15 feeder lists for Harvard, Wharton and Columbia Business Schools (the first 2 I believe sakky posted).</p>
<p>I’m an undergraduate at Columbia and I’ve had the good fortune of being able to interact with CBS students quite a bit. A couple of schools that are surprisingly well represented: Brigham Young and Westpoint.</p>
<p>That said, there’s an obvious flaw with the PoetsandQuants study - namely, that they’re doing a convenience sampling of CBS students who have, and publicly share info on, their facebook profiles. If I had to guess, I doubt that this list is even close to the reality.</p>
<p>Unless I’m reading that article incorrectly, they found 246 out of 346 on Facebook, or 71+%. That’s a very high sample size which tells you that the demographics are probably pretty good. The only issue is if there’s a known potential sampling bias. A bias would be something like Annapolis being under represented if the Navy did not allow the use of Facebook while deployed. I can’t think of any biases like that.</p>
<p>You might not be wearing your glasses when you were writing this one. Either that or you were just ■■■■■■■■… You obviously left out UC Berkeley, which was present at all the 3 business schools too. </p>
<p>Here are the top 15 feeder schools for each business schools. As you can see, the Ivies, Duke and Georgetown aren’t the only schools that landed in the top 15 for all the three given business schools.</p>