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<p>yes, I never said the colleges caused people to do better. The way placement success is measured for top colleges at top banks is merely through representation, that’s the way b-schools are evaluated as well. Any attempt to tease out the causal efficacy of colleges in finance placement is futile, there are just too many variables which need to be accounted for before we would be able to isolate the effect of a college on a student, so your complaint is merely academic.</p>
<p>I just spoke with a few friends who started at MS, GS and Barcap this year and last, they were given the following ordering in terms of firmwide representation:</p>
<p>1&2) Harvard, Wharton
3&4) Columbia, Princeton</p>
<p>Many of those were working in investment banking</p>
<p>Columbia is also not highly pre-professional, only 10-20% of the student body is actually interested in finance.</p>