School Tier List for PE
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Are you excited for high school graduation in a few months?
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This is super lame. Also wtf is Binghamton...
Okay I’m going to make everyone here cringe - this is the university ‘Harper’ from HBO industry went to.
That is why OP mentioned it… I’m 100% sure.
Imagine basing your university choice off of where a fictitious character went
That's even worse than I expected when I asked
To give some actual insight, what I’ve actually seen from being involved in recruiting is that PE recruiting is more “pure prestige” vs IB.
At banking targets / semi targets / etc are driven by on campus recruiting and what helps bank recruit their analysts efficiently. This typically favors bigger schools / undergrad business schools (places like Michigan, NYU, etc) all have large populations of undergrads studying finance and it makes it easy for banks to recruit.
In PE, because there isn’t an on-campus element, it just seems like HHs and funds like “the best” possible schools, which often is places like LAC (Williams, Amherst, etc) or great academic schools that just aren’t big finance feeders (MIT, Brown, JHU). Also important that for a banking analyst, its (arguably) helpful to hire kids with undergrad finance coursework, whereas PE isn’t hiring out of college so doesn’t matter what someone studied
Obviously not saying a PE fund will look down on someone from Michigan/NYU/etc but the recruiting process tends to favor schools where some 50 year old MD is impressed by more than anything else.
So you're saying the ivies are even better for on-cycle recruiting than they are for ib?
Dude this thread is terrible just quit
Why are yale Princeton stanford mit at S tier for PE
Should only be H/W
This isn't for undergrad recruiting this is for on-cycle (what HHs think)
HYPSM has a stronger "cachet" than W (HYPSM people typically viewed as smarter). W is mainly viewed as finance hardos.
There is no way that W is better than HYPSM from a prestige perspective to HHs, at most they're equal. I personally think Harvard is the biggest flex of all, I will say that.
Ah yes…PE firms are notorious for not taking finance hardos
Lol this is just not true W dominates H in PE recruiting… just look across the street
Ouch.. no love for UNC anymore here.. when I was recruiting, we were a decent target (right behind HPW) in class size at MS/GS/JPM and have always had folks spread across the top buyside shops
Ivy schools open more doors post-grad isn't the hot take you think it is op lol
Op clearly not familiar w west coast recruiting. Stanford, USC Marshall, and UCLA Anderson are big west coast targets
USC is more so known for consulting though. Not too many IB/PE kids come out of there.
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