School Tiers

S tier: HYPSM + Wharton

A tier: Michigan, Columbia, UPenn, Dartmouth, Duke, Caltech, Brown, Cornell

B tier: Georgetown, Notre Dame, NYU Stern, UVA

C tier: Northwestern, JHU, Vanderbilt and other top 25s 

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I’ve never met a Caltech alumni who was interested in IB or finance ig except for one guy who went on to become a quant at Five Rings.

 

LMFAO, he actually goes to Michigan, check out his post history. All of those B tier schools just as good or better than Michigan, Caltech, and Brown.

 

Michigan is a trash school. Let me clear it up for you:

S: Harvard, Princeton, Wharton, Stanford

A: Columbia, UChicago, MIT, Yale

B: Brown, UPenn, Caltech

C: Dartmouth, Cornell, Stern

D: Georgetown, Northwestern, JHU, Notre Dame

F: All else

 

Imo Michigan is legit only worth it for either absurdly rich people or Michigan residents

 

Lmao, Michigan and UVA will never be on par with JHU, Northwestern, or Vanderbilt. 

 

You made 2 threads for this bro. Anyway I think another comment on one of the other threads is pretty accurate. Im just copy pasting it. 
 

Most recently, I'd say:

1: Wharton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton

2: Stanford, MIT, Penn (non-Wharton), Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Brown, NYU Stern

3: Cornell, Georgetown, Williams, Amherst, NYU (Non-stern), Michigan (Ross)

4: Vanderbilt, Michigan (non-Ross), Northwestern, WashU, Berkeley, Emory, Hopkins, UVA, UNC

the other one was pretty elaborate and probably better than this 

I would put

S tier: HYPSM + Wharton

A+- Columbia, Penn, Duke, Dartmouth, UChicago

A tier: Georgetown, Brown, Cornell, NYU Stern

B+ tier: Michigan, Berkeley, Williams, Amherst, Notre Dame, UVA

B tier- Northwestern(debatable between B+/B), Vanderbilt, Emory, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Middlebury, Rice

C+ Tier- UT Austin(debatable between B/C+), UNC(debatable between B/C+), Boston College, Washington and Lee, Hamilton, CMU

C Tier- Wake Forest, IU Kelley, Villanova, William and Mary, Tufts, SMU

 

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