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<p>Best thing in this thread. </p>
<p>If I had to rank the schools myself, it would be: </p>
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<li>Harvard, Wharton, Princeton</li>
<li>Dartmouth, Yale, MIT, Stanford</li>
<li>Columbia, Duke, Cornell</li>
<li>Northwestern, Penn, Ross (Michigan), Haas, Stern, UChicago </li>
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<p>However, it doesn’t matter. If you go to any of these schools and do well, you will have a shot at IB.</p>
<p>What about schools such as Uvirginia or USC or UMIAMI or Uwashington in seattle or UNC or Berkeley?</p>
<p>I’m wondering the same thing woodfield… UVA is a very elite business school, and my dad knows many a many investment bankers/hedgefunders who attended Georgetown.</p>
<p>woodfield824,</p>
<p>Berkeley is target school.</p>
<p>Here’s a better list. [Feeder</a> Schools | WallStreetOasis.com](<a href=“http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/feeder-schools]Feeder”>Feeder Schools | Wall Street Oasis)</p>
<p>Also there is an easier way of finding out how much a school is as a target- you could go to their career center website and search for student surveys on career paths after graduation. This would give you an insight to how many students go to certain firms. Most people usually dont know what they are talking about when they say a school is a target/not a target. They are basing their statements and rankings based on how many people they saw in their analyst classes and people they have met. Your best bet is to search for surveys.</p>
<p>Also there is an easier way of finding out how much a school is as a target- you could go to their career center website and search for student surveys on career paths after graduation. This would give you an insight to how many students go to certain firms. Most people usually dont know what they are talking about when they say a school is a target/not a target. They are basing their statements and rankings based on how many people they saw in their analyst classes and people they have met. Your best bet is to search for surveys.</p>
<p>Surveys have down sides as well. First, the response rate is usually 40-70%. Second, surveys often just tell you which firms hires the most undergrads at a specific school; they don’t provide specific info on who went where, what division, etc. In addition, sometimes they just provide info on what percent of the undergrad student body went into finance, consulting, etc.</p>
<p>However, at any of the top 15 schools (all of which has at least some recruitment from at least some top firms), how well you do at each is more important than which one you attend.</p>
<p>If they recruit at your school you’re a target. If not, than no.</p>
<p>What the h…l does it matter if you’re #1 of some stupid CC list.</p>
<p>the thing is I and probably others are seniors in high school and don’t have access to campus career placement centers so we rely on posters to supply factual information. So, does anybody know what investment banks recruit at miami or USC or NYU?</p>
<p>“the thing is I and probably others are seniors in high school and don’t have access to campus career placement centers so we rely on posters to supply factual information. So, does anybody know what investment banks recruit at miami or USC or NYU?”</p>
<p>Not every school releases their postgraduate surveys. </p>
<p>Miami: none.
USC: West coast I-banks
NYU: All bulge brackets (emphasis on Stern School)</p>
<p>OK woodfield–you’re right. I understand why a HS student would ask if a school was a target. </p>
<p>But I still stand by my thinking that it is ridiculous to rank the targets. If an IB recruits at a school and you attend that school, you have a chance at getting an internship and then maybe a job offer. The point is to be at a target and get the internship. It does not matter if your target school is ranked #1 or #5 on some arbitrary CC list.</p>
<p>How good the networks are at a target school would, IMO, be a better question.</p>