Actual Target List School List (For High School Seniors)

(Super Target)

Harvard Yale Princeton Wharton - UPenn's undergrad business school

(Target)

Stanford UPenn (Non-Wharton) Brown Berkeley Haas Dartmouth Columbia Duke UChicago MIT NYU Stern Cornell UMich Ross UVA McIntire

(Top Semi-Target)

Williams Georgetown McDonough Notre Dame Mendoza Amherst Northwestern

(Semi-Target)

Vanderbilt WashU Olin Middlebury UNC KF Indiana Kelley IBW USC Marshall UT Austin McCombs UCLA CMC Emory Goizueta BC Carroll CMU Tepper Rice

(Low Semi-Target)

Bowdoin JHU Tufts Indiana Kelley (non-IBW) Wake Forest Washington & Lee Colgate Hamilton Wesleyan

(Non-Target but places well) Colby / Bates / Davidson - Good LACs Georgia Tech Scheller Villanova BU Questrom College of William and Mary Mason Northeastern D'amore McKim UW-Madison U of Illinois Gies Lehigh Ohio State Fisher Penn State Smeal U of Florida SMU Cox U of Maryland Smith U of Minnesota Carlson Miami of Ohio Rutgers U of SC Darla Moore Baruch Zicklin U of Georgia Terry Babson Fordham Gabelli

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