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this feels true to me; most people i’ve met from princeton have been palpably sharp

 
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I want to caution you that correlation =/= causation. A lot of these grads have family connections and that’s how they break in. The connections, not the school was the difference. Per capita might not be the best way to analyze this.

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Ehhhh not really... Dartmouth alumni are very motivated and pull hard for Dartmouth kids, I would imagine the same goes for Princeton and other schools mentioned here.

Almost all of my friends who are going into finance from Dartmouth have no family connections, it’s literally the rabid alumni network and OCR that places tons of kids. It’s really not selection bias in favor of MDs’ kids, it’s that finance is popular and that alumni are insane.

 

would also add top NESCACs do well for those interested in finance, the relative size of those interested is just smaller 

 

At HY. From my peers, I'd say Princeton/Darty do well because of the very large portion interested in finance compared to the size of their schools, probably followed by H/Y (H probably has a higher % of kids interested in finance, but it is a chunk bigger than Y, so it's probably a tossup?), then Wharton, then Stanford/Columbia/Duke type places, then your Browns/Cornells/Georgetowns

 

Why do you and your friends talk about stupid things like that in the first place anyway.....

 

Would think Stanford would be up there because they probably have access to both West Coast and East Coast recruiting channels and out of the 4 or 5 tippy top schools, it's probably the one with the least amount of kids interested in IB. This is just considering opportunities, not taking into account alumni strength at places like Pton or Dartmouth.

 

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