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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who has done a lot of recruiting for a desirable investment boutique, I find this ranking obsession to be silly. “Yes”, I like recruiting from good schools but there are plenty of them. I wouldn’t give an edge to a Cornell grad over a Colgate grad (or name +40 other schools) based on the schools. Rather, I’m going to hire the candidate who is the best fit based on so many factors. I like smart, well rounded kids (better than nerds at evaluating management teams and such) who I think will be successful. They come from lots of schools. [/quote]

If you are recruiting at 40 schools, your firm can't really be a "boutique" anymore.

A huge difference for the Ivy+ vs. many other schools is the sheer number of truly boutique investment, hedge fund, VC, PE, consulting, tech (not really boutique but start-ups), etc. founded by graduates and they are only hiring maybe 3 kids per year.  Guess what, they just hire almost exclusively at their undergrad because they know what they are getting.  But it's a lot of firms.

The volume of these types of firms really drops off once you get to even a WashU as an example.[/quote]

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