Recent trends in target school pecking order for finance recruiting?

There are a million threads on "target school rankings" on WSO, but a lot of them seem to be a decade old and possibly outdated. Most of these old threads say that HYPSM and Wharton are the most elite, followed by Dartmouth, Duke, Columbia and other ivies and top schools. I've also read that UChicago is more of a regional target.

While this mostly true today, have there been any changes or trends in the pecking order for target schools recently, in 2018 and 2019? Some newer posts (Comprehensive list of target schools, Investment Banking University Recruiting Report) lead me to believe that schools such as Duke and UChicago have become more prominent, while Dartmouth has become weaker. Can anyone shed any light on this situation?

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