<p>Let me make this easy. Wall Street Bulge Bracket banks do not pick favorites within their list of “target schools”. They take good applicants from both M&T and Princeton (and Yale and Harvard and other places too)–your odds of success are more reliant on how well you do at school than on where you went between the two of them. </p>
<p>Unless you’re looking at some super-specific hedge fund job that only takes M&T people (they exist, but they’re few and far between), pick the place where you think that you would enjoy the next four years more–it’ll show. You’re overcomplicating this decision. You have equal odds of getting a job out of either school. </p>
<p>Feel free to PM me to talk off-line if you’d like.</p>