***INVESTMENT BANKING TARGET SCHOOLS LIST 2025***

1 - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Wharton

2 - Stanford, MIT

3 -  UChicago, Columbia, Dartmouth

4 - Cornell, Penn (Non-Wharton)

5 - Stern, Ross, Georgetown, Duke

6 - Brown,Notre Dame, UVA

7 - Northwestern, UC Berkeley, USC, IU-Kelley

8 - Vanderbilt, JHU, UT-Austin, Rice

9 - UCLA, UNC, WashU, Emory

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There are literally just four groups. Groups 1-3 are target schools. The rest are not, simple as that.

Group 1 - HYPSM, Wharton/Penn, Columbia, UChicago

Group 2 - Duke, Dartmouth, Cornell, Northwestern, Brown

Group 3 - Georgetown, NYU Stern, Michigan Ross, UVA, Notre Dame

Group 4 - Everyone else

 

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