[SELLSIDE] OFFICIAL 2026 TARGET UNDERGRAD TIERLIST/RANKING

S++ - Harvard, Wharton

S+ - Yale, MIT, Princeton, Stanford

S - Columbia, UChicago, Duke, NYU Stern, UPenn, Dartmouth

A - Northwestern, Brown, Cornell, Berkeley, Ross

B - UVA MCT, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Amherst/Williams

C - Everything else.

This is for sellside FO.

Let me know what changes are to be made, but as of now this is the flagship tierlist for 2026.

9 Comments
 

Congrats on Stern/Ross/Berkeley


Dartmouth and Duke should be in A.
Ross and Berkeley should be in B.

Stern may be worth putting in C because of how horrible recruiting from the school is, maybe B at highest.
 

 

I just don't see how Stern is below A tier... look at outcomes. I get it's competitive, but 140/year to BB and EB out of about 300 kids that recruit for banking and less that take it seriously.

 

No way it’s actually 140/300 get be/bb right?? that’s insane if true

 

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