COMPREHENSIVE PRESTIGE TIER LIST
Please help me update this list:
Undergrad Name:
Tier 1: Harvard, Princeton, Wharton, Stanford
Tier 2: Columbia, Duke, MIT, UPenn, Yale
Tier 3: Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell
IBD:
Tier 1: Centerview, PJT, Qatalyst
Tier 2: Moelis, Lazard, Evercore
Tier 3: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley
Other Finance:
Tier 1: Apollo, KKR, Blackstone
Tier 2: Bain, Carlyle, Silver Lake
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Bottom Tier: MBB
Trash Tier: Big 4/Corp Dev
SWE:
Tier 1: HRT, Five Rings, Plaid, Nuro, Figma, Brex, Databricks
Tier 2: Google, IMC Trading, Jane Street, Netflix, Facebook, Scale AI
Tier 3: Optiver, Citadel, Roblox, Twitter, ByteDance
Other Achievements:
Tier 1: Summa cum laude at HYPSM, Putnam Top 25
Tier 2: 4x AIME Qualifier, USACO Platinum
Tier 3: Leetcode 1000+ solved, 1600 SAT, 800 GMAT, 180 LSAT
Touch grass
Found the MBB guy
one of the worst posts on this forum and that's saying something
Lol what mouthbreather takes a job at Plaid or Figma over Jane Street
Idk about swe/other finance but ibd and college rankings are pretty accurate. I’d personally put duke on the same tier as Dartmouth, and swap pjt and evercore unless if its pjt rx.
swap MIT and Wharton
swap Evercore and Centerview
remove Silver Lake from Tier 2
swap Figma and Jane Street
swap Facebook and Optiver
add ICPC WF to Tier 2 other
remove AIME
Other than that, pretty accurate- Nice work.
This is so toxic. You’re going to be miserable in life if this is what you think about. Because no one else outside of a very small circle of 22 year olds care.