Wall Street Undergrad Prestige Ranking/Tierlist

Not a target tierlist in terms of placement, but simply in terms of what does someone on WS think of a person from x school.

A: Harvard, Wharton, Princeton

B: Yale, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Oxford, Cambridge

C: Columbia, Chicago, Penn, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, Imperial College London

D: Northwestern, Stern, Duke, Brown, Cornell, Williams, UCL, LSE

E: UVA, Michigan, Berkeley, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Amherst, Warwick

F: UT McCombs, USC Marshall, Rice, Kelley, Vanderbilt, Emory, WashU, Claremont McKenna, Pomona

G: Swarthmore, UCLA, Penn State, Rutgers, Baruch, Purdue, UIUC, Miami, Haverford

This list is not arguable/final and does not require your plebian input as I attended Phillips Exeter Academy.

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Would bring Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, and Imperial down one, bring Duke, Stern, Northwestern, LSE up one, combine tiers A and B, bring Cornell down one, UCL down one, Swarthmore up one. 

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cornell being a top core for evr, jpm, ms, bx alone define a tier C or D here at the very least. Please do some easy research on LinkedIn, prospect in IB-Cov

 

have had many family friends in the industry openly look down on cornell. I'm sure placements are just fine but this post was about reputation so I indexed off that. 

 
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Prospective monkeys can rest well knowing this is what their competition spends time doing

 

OP is a current senior at Phillips Exeter got into Dartmouth for ED who is diagnosed with inferiority complex and imposter syndrome. 

 

because OP also got into LSE, so he needs to do an Apple to Orange comparison

 

finally someone trashes on Texas/Vandy. Those schools placing well is a product of the money their admins and parents sink in but the kids remain greatly underwhelming in terms of intellectual horsepower

 

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