NYC MBB Consulting Tier List (top school in each tier is the best)

S Tier
Harvard
Wharton
Stanford
Yale
Princeton

A+ Tier
MIT
Columbia
Dartmouth
UChicago
Brown

A Tier
Duke
Northwestern
Cornell
NYU Stern
UMich Ross

A− Tier
Georgetown
Berkeley Haas
UVA McIntire
Amherst
Williams

B+ Tier
Notre Dame
Carnegie Mellon
Emory
USC
Rice

B Tier
Vanderbilt
UNC
Tufts
Claremont McKenna
Wellesley

B− Tier
Johns Hopkins
Boston College
Wake Forest
Middlebury
Haverford

C Tier
UIUC
Villanova
SMU
Fordham
Brandeis

D Tier
American
UConn
Northeastern
Pepperdine

F Tier
Most regional/state schools with no target consulting pipelines

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