从来没有哪个商学院，徘徊在top10 之外，但是吸引了诸多关注．随便哪天登陆到 businessweek 的forum上。我总能看到关于Yale的帖子。如：Investment Banking after YALE SOM? 里面充满了完全相左的论点．而且其间争论的激烈以及用词的激烈丝毫不亚于mitbbs上的吵架。真是娱乐休闲的好去处阿 。 申明：本人申请了Yale SOM 且对Yalies没有任何不敬之意。 以下是俺找到的几段。
正方：
Of course Yale has interns / associates at EVERY bulge bracet. No need to ask the question (and by the way, 98% of those interested in investment banking got internships and 100% got offers after internship, you may feel free to validate this on the Yale discussion site). I am currently a consultant at BCG and will be attending Yale this fall, with my position in BCG following my MBA at Yale guaranteed. My colleagues all confessed that for the education I was looking to get, only Yale, Stanford, MIT, Harvard and Columbia would make sense; got into 3/4 (didn't apply to S) and have chosen Yale. You can't go wrong with Yale. 反方：
Get real dude. The 25% of students that go into investment banking, and the probably 40% or more that try to get into it, are not shooting for Wachovia. They are shooting for Goldman and Morgan Stanley. If they miss the mark the settle for something less. There is no data mining here. Don't tell me Yale students really want to go to Wachovia or Bank of America over Goldman. You sound like a fool.
比较中立的一方：
These are the facts: 1. Bulge bracket IB's hire a lot of people every year, and, for the most part, go on campus to recruit at all of the top 15-20 B school's. Yale SOM is one of those. 2. Bulge bracket IB's, like the big 3 consulting firms, are quite brand-conscious in their hiring, and focus their hiring on a subset of the top 20 MBA's. If you look at the actual placement numbers of MBA schools into I-Banks, the top 7 or so schools send much more students into these jobs - like 2x as much, or more, even adjusting for class size. Yale SOM is not one of these. Bottom line: Yale SOM is not a "core feeder" school for IB's, but bulge bracket IB's do hire some from Yale SOM. So, objectively speaking, Yale SOM is not one of the best choices for IB, but it is a reasonable choice. I don't think that should surprise anyone; that is right in line with where Yale SOM is ranked (US News, BW, etc). Please spare me the: "How dare you!? It's all about YOU, not where you go to school! All schools in the top 20 will give you a good shot!!" The point is we are trying to make distinctions between schools here, and there are differences, in rankings, reputations, and recruiting, that are worth pointing out. If that offends you, you probably shouldn't be in a MBA forum that is basically devoted to discussing these differences. | 
