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They like their cool non ivy league target schools. They recruited at mine and schools like notre dame/Mich/Duke. Bain Capital's CEO Steve Pagliuca's son works there. There is also a former Harvard football player that is there who had a very unusual path to the job. From my experience with them, they're not looking for the cold blooded finance folks, but rather intellectual firepower.

We're not lawyers. We're investment bankers. We didn't go to Harvard. We Went to Wharton!
 

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