Undergraduate Advice Needed

How would you rank the following non-target schools if the goal is to get a FO IBD position at a BB upon graduation from undergrad as a finance major:

Wake Forest University

University of Rochester

Lehigh University

Villanova University

University of Miami

University of Richmond

Tulane University

Fordham University

Texas Christian University

Any insight or feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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Social aspect? - Go to Miami Want your parents to overpay for a mediocre education? - Go to Fordham Want to have a shot at IBD? - Go to Wake Forest and join a frat. I have a friend who's brother went to WF and joined a frat. One of his frat brothers was an MD at JPM and well you can guess that what happened next was everyone in the frat got an SA position of some sort. However, ever before that luck, he did his sophomore summer at Wells Fargo. Good place, places well.

 

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