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[quote=Anonymous]HRT used to have a similar drop-down list of schools, but they don't anymore (https://www.reddit.com/r/columbia/comments/gieygi/comment/fql1des/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3). The schools were "Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley, Texas-Austin, UIUC, Imperial College London" with notable omissions of Yale, Penn, Brown, and Dartmouth (the former two tend to be included in most other lists though). What I've noticed is that it's becoming increasingly important to not only go to a top school for the credibility it affords you, but in particular a top school with strong quantitative departments: the big four CS schools (MIT, CM, Stanford, Berkeley) are almost always included on these lists, plus Harvard (because it's Harvard), Ivy Plus schools with strong quantitative departments (Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, often Chicago), and flagships of massive states with strong CS/math programs where they know they can get top talent (UIUC, UT, sometimes Georgia Tech and Michigan) that got unlucky for whatever reason in admissions and barely missed the Ivy League/Stanford/MIT. Wisconsin also gets a decent amount of recruiting traffic given its proximity to top firms in the Chicago area.[/quote]

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