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My understanding is that in previous years there was more room for debate. But recently Ivey is blowing the rest of them out of the water. Queens is also up there but not with Ivey. Ivey apparently has this thing where they compete with Queens to get more placements. This year they apparently didn’t have enough people making Evercore. So the president of WIC would call the analysts he worked with during his SA role and ask for them to give more people from his school interviews. Which lead to like 3 more offers. It’s alumni network seems crazy because they all help each other out

 

The debate is the same shit every year.

1 - Ivey
2 - (Gap)
3 - Queens
4 - Every uni tryna be like 1 and 3 (Rotman, McGill, Sauder, Laurier, Schulich)


This is what it pretty much looks like right now. People will deny it and bring it some random stats but like, this is how I would rank to chances of an average Joe breaking in for all the Canadian Schools.

 

I agree with the above with the exception of adding University of Calgary and University of Alberta to the number 4 list. Almost all the O&G IB seats are taken by grads from those schools. So from a total IB seat perspective, more are definitely coming from those two schools than from Schulich for example. 
(Que Ontario folk tryna look down on O&G/non-Toronto roles and here comes the monkey shit). 

 

The obvious answer is Ivey and then Queens, by far. Then you got the tier 2s like Laurier, Waterloo, McGill, UBC (to an extent). But Ivey and Queens lead by far.

 

Untrue. PMF has gone to shit the placements non-PMF kids. If only talking abt Canada then yes UofT belongs in the same tier but they simply do not have as much success recruiting for US firms. 

 

Agreed, even coming from someone non-biased like myself, UofT is definitely 4th behind Ivey, Queens, and McGill.

 
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UBC outside of PMF has seen declining placements

Actually the opposite: PMF hasn't placed into a top stateside investment bank or buyside shop since 2022. They fell off a cliff and non-PMFers consistently outplace.

 

Ivey will place more than queens as they are 1.5x the class size as queens a 500 vs about 800 students, so mathematically it makes sense - need to also consider per capita placements as queens absolutely kills it at the top firms in the US (most placements of any school into Moelis, multiple EVR, PJT, 4+ to GS TMT, etc), I’ve seen a lot of Ivey kids in the US who are double degrees so need to also account for a lot of them who use Ivey to take an extra year to place in the US. All in all you can’t go wrong with either school!

 

1. Ivey

2. Queen's

3. Rotman/McGill/Schulich/Waterloo/Laurier

From my experience as a current 3rd year at one of the above schools. All my experience is in Toronto, so not sure about schools for Vancouver/Calgary.

 

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