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This is the one question that we can actually answer with some certainty since Poets & Quants did a study analyzing the top feeder schools at a number of elite MBA programs.</p>
<p>Harvard Business School
[Top</a> Feeder Colleges to Harvard B-School | Poets and Quants](<a href=“http://poetsandquants.com/2011/08/15/top-feeder-colleges-to-harvard-business-school/2/]Top”>http://poetsandquants.com/2011/08/15/top-feeder-colleges-to-harvard-business-school/2/)
- Dartmouth: 24
- University of Chicago: <9</p>
<p>Wharton
[Top</a> Feeder Schools To Wharton’s MBA Program | Poets and Quants](<a href=“http://poetsandquants.com/2011/08/07/top-feeder-schools-to-whartons-mba-program/]Top”>http://poetsandquants.com/2011/08/07/top-feeder-schools-to-whartons-mba-program/)
- Dartmouth: 19
- University of Chicago: <8</p>
<p>Columbia Business School
[Top</a> Feeder Schools To Columbia B-School | Poets and Quants](<a href=“http://poetsandquants.com/2011/09/07/top-feeder-schools-to-columbia-business-school/]Top”>http://poetsandquants.com/2011/09/07/top-feeder-schools-to-columbia-business-school/)
- Dartmouth: 14
- University of Chicago: <6</p>
<p>I know some Chicago posters are going to jump on this data and say that the majority of Chicago students aren’t interested in business but that’s BS since if that were true, the few Chicago students who are interested in banking or consulting (which would at least be about 100) would have first dibs on the most elite jobs and they would be getting into HBS and Wharton anyway due to a lack of internal competition.</p>
<p>The fact is that Dartmouth has a lot more firms recruiting than Chicago does and it would be silly to not acknowledge that. Despite being a smaller school, Bain, BCG, McKinsey, The Parthenon Group, L.E.K., Booz, and Oliver Wyman all consider Dartmouth to be a target school while none of them recruit at Chicago as a core school.</p>
<p>The difference might be smaller in Finance but Dartmouth still holds an edge.</p>