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Originally posted by The_Nash
I was wondering, what are the top schools for the jobs that have been discussed in this thread?
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Essentially Ivy+ are targeted heavily (basically the Ivies and schools like Stanford, MIT, Chicago, and Northwestern. From state schools I would say a couple have decent shots like UVA, UT Austin, Berkeley, UMich, and UCLA but they're not really recruited that heavily.
The rest of the schools are outside of the recruitment schedules. Basically that means that the huge firms won't be at your school giving cool presentations, taking you to dinner, all that jazz before interviews.
Even within the target schools, some firms refuse to visit certain schools. My school wasn't good enough for certain firms (Blackstone didn't recruit from our undergrad class) and firms like Bain stuck heavily to New England schools.
Now what do you do if you're not in a target school? The biggest thing is to network. Meet people. Get your name out there and then you can possibly get an interview spot. Of course it is a lot harder, but it will be worth it. The other thing you can do is get your foot into the door with a small boutique or regional. Some boutiques are considered extremely prestigious (hence they recruit at only 1 or 2 schools) and are lead by incredible bankers that are very famous but most are just small shops where you won't be exposed to that many great deals, BUT you'll learn to trade and can work hard to get into a good business school and use that to get into a better firm.
-Rudey
--Good luck!