<p>as someone who just finished a full time recruiting, I can tell you that wharton kids are held to a different standard, and I’m not trying to be all high and mighty here.</p>
<p>What I mean is that Wharton kids are expected to know finance/accounting (and they are asked more technical questions in interviews), whereas princeton/harvard/other top schools with no undergrad business programs are not. It’s simply a difference of expectations.</p>
<p>There are still plenty of princeton kids that get opportunities on wall street, but a lot of the very elite firms (think BX and other top PE shops) will still prefer wharton kids for those reasons. And in some cases, firms will only recruit from wharton (e.g. Rothschild).</p>
<p>EDIT: this is just for finance/banking, etc. For consulting firms, I don’t see a huge advantage for either school.</p>