Of all 300 firms in the PEI 300, where are the cutoffs for MF / UMM / MM? Will these firms all give you a solid shot at an M7 MBA, particularly HBS / GSB? If not, which firms aren't as reputable?
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"Anything past that is really not important" - Lol some of the absolute top tier funds fall way past that point e.g. LGP, Insight, AmSec, Cinven, NMC, Genstar, GTCR Ares, Platinum, Francisco, TCV, Berkshire etc. etc. etc.
And folks realize, this "ranking" is again, just PE capital raised in the last 5 years right? Doesn't really matter that Bain is 6 and H&F is 11; show me one person who turns down H&F for Bain because Bain has a bunch of random funds in disparate geographies that are all added up here.
That's why I said the correlation should probably be positive but it's a useless list, and much more helpful is to actually compare offers/funds.