| That should be pretty clear, but in any case: Wharton and Harvard. Wharton will most often get more spots than Columbia or Harvard. For GS's summer analyst class 2008, we beat Harvard by a few spots. Wharton on the other hand will have 20 more interns than us.
Just because Wharton, Harvard and Columbia send the most kids to WS firms, it doesn't have to mean that they are WS's favorites. Most likely, a lot more people from Columbia apply to banks than, say, Princeton. I don't have any relative numbers, so it's hard to guess what colleges banks like the most. It's pretty save to say that HYPWC will be in that group. There are definitely others in that group, too, but things get a little vaguer. Personally, I don't think that someone who would get into a BB from Princeton wouldn't be able to get into a BB from, say, Brown. I honestly think the difference is negligible and it depends a lot more on how good you are, because you college can only open doors for you, not walk you through. Since all the top schools will the door for you, it really is up to yourself what you make of it.
Just for the record: I only know for some BBs that the 3 most represented schools are WHC, I don't know it for all of them. But BBs should be pretty similar and from talking to other interviewees form other school, I've generally been told that they noticed a lot of people from WHC, more than from other schools. Also note that this is for the NYC offices only! I have no idea what the distribution for, say, San Francisco is. I imagine they have more Stanford and Berkeley people though. |