MBA Placement for mid/back office jobs at BBs?

There are a couple of prestigious BBs at my school doing interviews for non-front office positions. Would the name brand still be a big advantage for M7 MBA admissions even if it is in Operations, Risk, or a regular finance role or do MBA adcoms not treat it the same because it's not IB/S&T?

 

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  • Used B-School to Move From Back Office to IBD Associate at 25 scotch and doing my B-school homework halfheartedly. Thanks have to go out to all the WSO posters that ... a F500 back-office job Into M&A. I'm 25 and just landed an Associate gig at an elite boutique in ... the story. I got in to a top 20-25 ranked B school, and left my job for more school two years after ...
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  • Which B-school would you choose for MBB? Recently applied and was accepted into three b-schools with hopes of getting a job at MBB or a boutique ... I couldn't decide whether to post this in this forum or the business school forum, but ... decided that there are more people that are out of college with actual jobs that look here, so this is ...
  • Does UNDERGRAD school reputation/prestige matter for B-School admissions? B-schools this fall for matriculation in fall 2017 (at which point I would have four years of total ... CFA, but haven't yet taken Level 2. I have not yet taken the GMAT. I would like to attend B-school ... one in a Fortune 50 company's accounting department, and one at a market research firm). I also ...
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  • B-School work experience question Looking for advice with my M7 b-school application. Since graduating in 2009, my work experience ... I didn't have a great plan post college Thanks for the advice business school admissions work experience ... includes 7 months at a boutique consulting firm, year and a half at a boutique/ mm bank in s&a
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