<p>I went through the recruiting process and I am going to be working a top group at a BB this summer. I would argue that there are only two true supertargets: Harvard and Wharton. All of the other schools (in no particular order: Ivies, Caltech, Duke, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, NU, Georgetown, top publics, Stern) have more or less the same recruiting. The BB I’m working at recruits at only those schools and I am positive that other BBs look at similar schools. I put Harvard and Wharton in its own league because they get exclusive recruiting from some very heavy hitters like MoCo, Bessemer, Goldman Sachs PIA, and other prestigious names in IB/PE/VC/HF. Therefore, the difference between a school like Duke and UChicago is minimal and I would say negligible. </p>
<p>akx06 and unalove have the right idea. UChicago does not have the same representation on the Street in terms of sheer numbers because frankly they could care less about slaving away at a distressed debt desk (although Andrew Alper, UChicago alum, was one of the youngest guys ever to be a partner at GS). That does not mean, however, that the University is “less recruited.”</p>