How Well Does US News Ranking Translate to IB/PE placements?

Wondering how a school's overall ranking plays out in finance. And I'm talking about context for kids who actually want to go into finance, not just overall placements from the school, as MIT kids are more likely to be actual engineers and Johns Hopkins kids are more likely to be doctors. For context, US News Ranking is:

1 - Princeton

2 - MIT

3 - Harvard, Stanford

5 - Yale

6 - Caltech, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern

10 - UPenn

11 - Cornell, UChicago

13 - Brown, Columbia

15 - Dartmouth, UCLA

17 - Berkeley

18 - Rice, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt

21 - Carnegie Mellon, UMich, WashU

24 - Emory, Georgetown, UVA

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