Recruiting Strategy from a Target-Level Non-Target School

I'm currently a rising senior at a school that is a target for all three MBBs (Ivy) but happens not to be for one of the T2s I'm also interested in applying to. There are, however, some alumni from my school who work at the T2. My current plan is to reach out to them about their recruiting process to see how they navigated it without on campus recruiting, but I wanted to reach out here to see if there was any insight. Should I essentially be treating this like all non-target recruiting. Thanks!

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