2019 Target School Ranking for NYC Recruit?
Just curious what people's thought on the topic are for undergrad/MBA entry-level positions for IB.
**Starting off the list for hard target:**
- all Ivy League schools
- MIT
- Stanford
- Duke
- top liberals (Amherst/Williams/Swarthmore)
- UMich Ross
- UVa
- NYU Stern
I understand schools like Berkeley/USC/UCLA/UChicago/UT Austin/Rice are heavy targets regionally but does that transfer over to recruit for NYC? Or is that what "semi-target" refers to?
EDIT:
- Georgetown
Brown University student here- I wouldn't include us as a top target. Brown, and I would say Cornell and maybe Dartmouth as well, are not recruited by all banks and are definitely not true universal targets. For example, Brown does really well at MS, GS, and PWP but it's been years since we've sent kids to Evercore or JPM. Thus by definition, we are absolutely a semi-target. Ivy league != target all the time. Stanford/MIT absolutely place better than Cornell/Brown.
Say what you will for Brown, but both Cornell and Dartmouth have great placement across all BB’s and EB’s.
I'm sorry but what? This is just completely wrong. Current student here at Brown, and there are 2 going to Evercore this year and several going to JPM IBD and S&T as well.
Centerview, Perella, BAML, MS, GS, Leerink, PJ Solomon, Barclays, all come on campus for infosessions/interviews with a couple buyside shops coming as well (Insight, AQR, etc...), and Guggenheim, Lazard, PJT, JPM, CS holding resume drops. We have maybe 30 kids recruiting for banking every year, and literally everyone I know who recruited has placed. Brown doesn't get every single bank out there, but we also only have like 30 kids recruiting every year and everyone places so it's not too difficult.
Also not sure where you're getting that Dartmouth is not recruited by banks and isn't a universal target either, have a few friends there and literally every single bank goes on campus there (would probably say it's second only to HYPW).
Georgetown is a major one that's missing.. also UT-A, Berkeley, Chicago should definitely be considered targets
Target: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Penn, Yale, Northwestern, NYU, Georgetown, Duke, Stanford, Michigan, Virginia, UNC, U-Chicago, UC-Berkeley
Semi: USC, UCLA, UT-Austin, Emory, Rice, Vanderbilt, Boston College, Washington University, Indiana, Wisconsin, Wake Forest, Illinois, Notre Dame
Top LAC are not "Targets" but have Target-like chances.
MIT/Caltech/Carnegie Mellon aren't worth putting into either category but candidates can become "Targets" if they get the right experience/exposure. Gets harder from Rice/JHU.
So you go to UNC?
The list I made is for NYC. UNC is on par with USC/UT-Austin if we consider other locations(still beats UCLA), but the school has historically very strong recruiting ties and OCR for NYC, even beating UC-Berkeley.
Are you kidding me? Not OP but UNC is much more of a target than either of those two for NYC especially. I attended a midwestern target(not indiana), work in NYC IBD, and see many more UNC grads than I do Vandy and ND combined. Chicago(used to work here)? ND does amazing there while UNC flops. But tons of UNC guys across the street, especially at the MD level and above. Vandy's sending more and more but UNC has a much more well established reputation over time. This is just for undergrad, but I know UNC MBAs working here as well. Honestly never interacted with a Vandy or ND MBA.
If anything is wrong with the listing, it's that UC-Berkeley kids don't tend to want NYC. Other than that best I've seen on the site. One improvement could be adding a "supertarget" tier, which would be ~5 powerhouses.