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For what it is worth, I believe the perception of target schools around here is off. Technically speaking, a target school for a bank is where they have OCR. So if you go to a school that the bank doesn't do OCR at, you are at a non-target. For example, at Evercore schools like Dartmouth and Yale are "non-targets" since Evercore doesn't have a specific recruiting pipeline there, but these schools would be widely referred to as target schools.

I believe that once you are attending a certain top tier caliber of schools (and Brown certainly is part of that category) the concept of target or non-target disappears or becomes significantly less important. If you go to a good school people assume (for better or worse) that you are both smart and capable of doing the work. I went to a school that probably has some of the best recruiting around but ended up interning in IB at a BB as a sophomore and EB as a junior at places that considered my school a non-target or non-core school. So at the places I ended up working being at a "non-target" didn't hurt me at all.

Tl;dr If you go to a good enough school (and Brown is a fantastic school) target vs non-target kind of goes out the window.

 

Anecdotally investment banking recruiting is strong for USC undergrad. Tons of alums at banks/private equity in the LA area.

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General perception of a school is more important than being a target. My boutique does OCR at Indiana so Indiana is a target but the quota is ~2 kids a year. We don't do OCR at Dartmouth but end up with 2 or 3 per year anyway. So it's actually easier to get in from Dartmouth despite the fact that it's not a target.

Brown will get you looks from anywhere if you get in. Would not say the same about USC (at least for east coast). From experiences at 3 different firms (2 summers in BB IBD and FT at an EB), I saw the most kids from Columbia, Wharton, Michigan, Stern, UVA, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Indiana, Dartmouth, Ivey, Williams, Georgetown and Norte Dame in no particular order.

 

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