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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

 

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

 

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.

 

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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