@MyOdyssey : It’s Wharton because he doesn’t want to say “Penn” lol… If anything I would have maybe included Chicago (because of elite econ. dept that is much more quantitative than normal, which is something H and Y also have in common. Duke is very good/on the come up with its econ. dept as well and has had increasing success with placement…there seems to be a correlation with “great econ dept” as opposed to “great b-school” with exception of Wharton which has more rigorous quantitative requirements/pre-reqs than many other UG b-schools). I would also imagine MIT is there (as a an awful high percentages of them go to Wall Street and other financial firms with their math skills among other things). Regardless, I’m surprised that there is any argument over this issue of some schools being much bigger targets than others. This is well-known and precedented. They don’t necessarily keep this trend going because those schools are the only with “the best” (that idea is kind of obsolete given the rise of other schools’ student bodies), but because of the prestige associated with the names of the institutions from which they recruit. Business and Law are naturally very prestige driven and hiring from Wharton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, and Stanford makes them look good. In addition, there is “feed-forward” of alumni who run those places which no doubt tips the scales in favor of those who are from their alma mater’s. This will be consistently perpetuated. For it to change, the other schools with similar student bodies would have to become as prestigious those places (in terms of name recognition dominance-right now…Duke is kind of going their in terms of that). You may also have to move your school further to the North (Stanford is special) lol.