Importance of school prestige for buyside recruiting

Does anyone know how important is the prestige of your college when doing buyside recruiting?

I’m currently a sophomore interning at a mid/lower tier BB. I’m from a non target LAC (relatively unknown outside of the region) and I just got off the transfer waitlist at a target but the amount of loans I’d have to take out for it makes it seem super unreasonable and assuming I don’t mess up my internship and hopefully get a return offer for next year and the year after, how much would my school’s prestige matters if I somehow find myself recruiting for buyside?

I’m having a hard time deciding whether having the extra 100k debt upon graduation is worth the prestige

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