Target School Lists
Are there any firms that publish their list of target schools? Or is there a place to find out which firms have OCR, etc? I can’t seem to find a list through my career site
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At most firms the target school lists are the same: HYP, Wharton, Stanford, other ivies, Stern, Ross, UVA, Berkeley, Georgetown, Chicago etc. My guess is you're more asking whether certain firms like certain schools that aren't really in the target school list everywhere. My firm for example really likes BC, which is generally considered a semi-target. Ik that some firms like other schools (Indiana at Moelis). I think you can generally tell by OCR which should be published on your school's career site or at least the info is disseminated through a club or student organization
Moelis seems to like quite a few non-targets, they also take a lot of BU kids.
HYP, Wharton, Stanford, other ivies, Stern, Ross, UVA, Berkeley, Georgetown, Chicago will generally receive target treatment pretty much everywhere (besides the firms that only/especially hire from a handful). Indiana, USC, Vanderbilt, UT Austin, etc type schools will usually be targets for a few major firms / be targets for regional offices. Then a place like Florida or Georgia or Pitt or Tufts might have a few they send people to on occasion.
Yup, accurate. Some firms like certain places. PJT, for instance, hires primarily H/W, one each from Princeton / Yale / Ross per year, and a smattering of random other pp . Barclays hires a ton from Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, Wharton, but are obv a BB so they'll hire from anywhere. Moelis has a particular affinity for Indiana (2 or so per year) and Citi does OCR at BC. Northwestern has OCR from Goldman NYC but no one else makes the trek from NYC to NU (not to say they don't place well in NYC but they just don't have a ton of OCR). Credit Suisse likes UVA a lot, BAML likes a lot of the LACs, etc. the point is that each bank has preferred schools
Personal experience, Yale does not send kids to PJT every year. Rarely, at best, we have like 3 alums in all of IB at PJT (associate, vp, md to my knowledge). We do send a few to Camberview I guess
Some schools can be a target for specific groups, but not the bank as a whole as well. For example, my school is a target for Citi FIG but nit Citi as a whole. Although Citi FIG does its own recruiting just in general.
lol uchicago?
Can confirm Citi does OCR at Boston College. They run an entire networking/recruiting week on campus - it's kind of ridiculous and over the top if you ask me. Jefferies also has a lot of BC, plus Michigan, Vanderbilt.
I'm at Columbia and I was surprised we're not target for many banks.
Including: Barclays, Citi, CS, UBS, DB, Moelis, PWP, Greenhill, PJT.
I guess it has to do with the fact that not many kids want to get into IB (absolute number) compare to other big school like Cornell for example.
Yeah Cornell has an army of people on Wall Street
Idk, I know a bunch of columbia students at UBS and PJT—I guess my experience isn’t indicative of the school as a whole
Probably because it’s a bitch to get up to 116th
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Not sure if you meant to give out your bank but Emory and BYU pretty much only have strong pipelines to 1 EB, so it isn't that hard to figure out which bank you work at.
Edit: Lol nevermind, just clicked your profile and looks like you weren't hiding.
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Kinda OT: What about Europe? Can somebody shed some light pls?
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