Are Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, and UChicago considered targets?

How do each of those schools stack up in the IB world? Obviously they aren’t on par with Princeton or Harvard, but they definitely are better than Vanderbilt and WashU…

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Evercore recruits from core schools and have a secondary list of schools they call “expansion” schools.

Targets (core): Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Wharton.

Semi (expansion): Duke, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell, UChicago, Notre Dame.

Schools that would also be considered Semi but aren’t well known for IB: JHU, Caltech, MIT, Northwestern

Non targets (according to Evercore, which is sad because these are still really good schools): Rice, USC, UCLA, Cal, Vanderbilt, WashU, Tufts, Georgetown.

 

Believe that's an inaccurate list. Evercore used to have their target school list on their website a little while back. If I remember correctly, they were (by number of hires) Wharton, Stern, Ivey, Harvard, Michigan, Columbia...

 

"Target" really varies by firm/location. For example, Kelley may not be considered a target for CVP, but it is for Moelis. USC is a target in LA, but not for NY.

However, if you go to a top school that isn't a "target", that doesn't mean you can't land a spot there or that your school's reputation doesn't matter. It will be more difficult to land an interview due to lack of alumni presence though. 

 

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