Simon-Kucher Target School List

Just in case anyone was interested, here's the list of target school from Simon-Kucher. fyi I don't go to Rice lol I didn't even know they business students. Some odd schools (drexel/northeastern/purdue?)

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Based on the most helpful WSO content, here's a detailed list of target, semi-target, and non-target schools for NYC investment banking:

Target Schools

  • Princeton
  • Harvard
  • Wharton
  • Yale
  • MIT
  • Duke
  • Stanford
  • UChicago

Semi-Target Schools

  • Columbia
  • UPenn (econ)
  • Dartmouth
  • Cornell
  • Brown
  • Ross
  • Georgetown
  • Northwestern
  • UVA (McIntire)
  • Vanderbilt
  • Notre Dame
  • Stern
  • Boston College
  • Indiana (Kelley)

Non-Target Schools

  • All the rest

Note: This list does not include west coast schools and might be missing some schools here and there.

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