<p>@bernie12:
Yeah, I had in mind more undergrad-to-startup rates.</p>
<p>BTW, while a decade ago, I would have included ND and Vandy as schools which don’t really get you in to high finance despite their reputation, these days, ND and Vandy (and well as G’Town and even BC) place a decent number of kids in to bulge bracket IBs).</p>
<p>There are some theories for this: One is that the IBanks are losing their luster so that the bulge brackets aren’t getting as many of those high GPA Ivy athlete types they use to target. Another is that many more undergrad b-school kids from the schools listed above are targeting/prepping for those positions, and they come across as more polished and knowledgeable about what the work entails than your typical traditional lib arts Ivy applicant.</p>
<p>Finally, I have noticed that 2 of the 3 schools I listed as underperforming in lognormal fields are traditionally very pre-med-heavy schools compared to even their peers (JHU and WashU; is Emory the same?) From the schools’ perspective, I’m not sure that’s a great strategy. Stanford’s endowment didn’t explode because of its pre-meds.</p>