<p>Goldenboy:</p>
<p>I doubt that the banks recruited from Penn CAS as vigorously in the past as they do now. Remember, in the 1990s, Penn CAS was considerably behind Wharton in terms of selectivity and opportunity afterwards. The school generally wasn’t that highly ranked (I think around #16 or so), and many Penn CAS students felt a bit of inferiority in comparison to Wharton, which had the same sterling reputation then as it does today.</p>
<p>Zoom forward to the present, and the situation is quite different. Penn CAS has closed the gap with Wharton, and the reputation of the college has improved considerably. No one considers Penn CAS to be the “ivy league gutter school,” as was readily the case some time back.</p>
<p>Given these trends, I think it’s doubtful banks/consulting firms didn’t adjust their recruiting practices accordingly. In fact, it’d be kind of surprising if firms didn’t increase their recruiting at Penn as the college grew noticeably stronger. </p>
<p>Given recent trends at UChicago, which seem to mirror the changes at Penn in the early 2000s, why wouldn’t a comparable trend be the case?</p>