Updated 2024 Consensus On Target Schools

Throne of Mount Olympus (Infinitargets) - Wharton

Palace of Mount Olympus (Ultratargets) - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Caltech

Gardens of Mount Olympus (Hypertargets) - MIT, Stanford

Demigods Among Men (Supertargets) - UChicago, Non-W UPenn, Columbia

The Blue Blooded (High Targets) - Duke, Dartmouth, Cornell, Stern

The Landed Gentry (Mid Targets) - Georgetown, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt

The Knighted (Low Targets) - Non-S NYU, Northwestern, Brown, Johns Hopkins

The Merchants (High Semi-Targets) - UMich, UVA, UNC, UT Austin

KYS Tier (Laugh Out Loud) - The Rest

Honorable Mentions:

The Ladies of the Night (Non-Targets) - ASU, UMiami, UCSB, Bama, FSU, Ole Miss

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Congrats on caltech (I go there and ur a dumbass for putting us up there for finance lol, if this was SWE/Quant/Academia etc sure but cmon man)

 

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