Definitive Prestige Tier List of Everything (Must Read)

Investment Banking

Legend Tier: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Evercore, Centerview, Qatalyst, JPM

Diamond Tier: Lazard, Moelis, PJT, PWP, BofA

Platinum Tier: Greenhill, Guggenheim, Barclays, Citi

Gold Tier: UBS, Deutsche

Crap Tier: RBC

Private Equity

Legend Tier: Blackstone, KKR, Apollo, Berkshire, H&F

Diamond Tier: TPG, Warburg, Silver Lake, Bain Capital, Vista

Platinum Tier: Thoma Bravo, Advent, CD&R

Crap Tier: Carlyle

Hedge Funds

Legend Tier: Renaissance, Elliott, Baupost, Perceptive, Deerfield, Abdiel, Greenoaks

Diamond Tier: Lone Pine, Tiger Global, Viking, Maverick, Coatue, Matrix

Platinum Tier: Farallon, Silver Point, Third Point, Skye Global

Gold Tier: Bridgewater, D1 Capital, Abrams Capital, Greenlight

Crap Tier: Citadel, P72, Millennium, Balyasny, Schonfeld, Diameter, Pershing Square

Venture Capital

Legend Tier: Sutter Hill, Benchmark, Thrive

Diamond Tier: Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer, Accel, General Catalyst

Platinum Tier: Menlo, Index, Insight

Gold Tier: NEA, Softbank

Crap Tier: a16z, Soma Capital, Craft Ventures, Tiger Global

Schools

Legend Tier: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Wharton, NYU Stern

Diamond Tier: Columbia, UPenn, Dartmouth, Duke, Brown, UChicago, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, UC Berkeley

Platinum Tier: Vanderbilt, NYU non-Stern, Georgetown, Rice, Williams, Amherst, Notre Dame, Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, WashU, UCLA, UVA, UT, UNC, USC

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(MUST READ) OPs def some rising junior with no offers lined up while at a non-target.. aint nobody else got the time or energy to make a corny post like this

 
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Columbia is trash, most overrated Ivy by a mile

 

Congrats on the 10 burner accounts you used to immediately SB this thread 

 

Congrats on going against the grain by preserving  your virginity all these years

 

The hedge fund and VC lists are accurate, +1

You just replied to yourself?

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Lmfao Stern is for butt munchers and rich theater kids dream on

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