Well, in response to both Maverick and Futuristic, there's a huge difference between firms that post a job with a particular school (basically firms will post their jobs anywhere), and actual recruiting relationships. I know for a fact that many (perhaps most) of the banks listed for each do not maintain active recruiting relationships with those schools.
As to Maverick's request for data to back up the generalization, take a look at the link below. You can check out the recruiting schedules at JP Morgan for each of the 3 schools. JP Morgan is a good example to use right now because they're one of the only firms where you can expect any semblance of a normal recruiting schedule this year (even Goldman is having huge layoffs, and Lehman, Citi, Merrill, UBS, BofA, Wachovia and others might not be too eager to show their faces around campus this year).
Click the link and then look at MBA Campus Events:
https://careers.jpmorganchase.com/career ... mpuseventsAs some background, here's the general intensity of various types of events, from low to high.
1. general presentation (anyone who wants free lunch or snacks can attend)
2. diversity event / career fair (often for information instead of recruiting)
3. conference (again, info and not really recruiting)
4. reception (generally open to everyone)
5. office hours (private one-on-one or two-on-two time, invite or open)
6. week on wall street / day in bank (open to anyone that signs up, but you have to get to NY)
7. a second reception and beyond (invite only)
8. reception in a swanky private setting (the shoe is now on the other foot)
In other words, a presentation is pretty much zero intensity, while a bunch of events leading up to private receptions and the like can definitely indicate some heavy breathing - in a recruiting sense.
So, here's a summary of the events that the 3 schools in question (Darden, Anderson, Haas) have.
Anderson
presentation (private banking)
full-time interviews (private banking)
presentation (private banking summer)
Interviews summer (private banking)
NOTE: There is no investment banking relationship here at all, just private banking. Even for private banking, the only event they have is a presentation (see above for event intensity levels). It is completely misleading to say that UCLA has a recruiting relationship with JP Morgan in this instance. IB recruiting at UCLA is at most a resume drop.Haas
Presentation
Reception
Banking career Information session
Finance conference
Diversity conference
Week on Wall Street
NOTE: JP Morgan does not interview on or near campus at Haas, according to this schedule. I looked up some other schools, and those with relationships all indicate time and place for on/near campus interviews. The key issue really is that the info session and conferences can only be loosely considered as recruiting events; they are more like general information for people interested in finance, and thus low on the intensity scale (definitely less than a reception).Darden
Presentation
Career Fair
Women's Event (off-site at a resort)
Career Fair (private banking)
Presentation (private banking)
Office Hours
Networking Reception (off-site at a resort)
Full-time interviews (on campus)
Finance Conference
Week on Wall Street
Summer Associate interviews (on campus)
I can tell you from personal experience that JP Morgan last year added an additional invitation on-campus event (wine tasting), cocktail events after each of the fairs and conferences, a private dinner during Week on Wall Street attended by 6 MDs hosting just 12 invited student, and a private dinner between 1st and 2nd round interviews (which both take place on/near campus). They will definitely step it up further at schools where they have strong recruiting relationships - beyond what is listed. That's serious heavy breathing.Just browsing through the list, you can see that Darden's recruiting schedule (for JP Morgan) more closely resembles the slate at ultra-elite schools. Check them out for yourselves if interested, but certain schools definitely are not on the radar here, (Anderson - private bank only, Ross - presentation only, Haas - no on-campus interviews, etc.). Then compare with the robust schedules at Darden, Tuck, NYU & Wharton; and the crazy off-the-charts schedules at Columbia and Harvard.
Again, this is just one bank, but always keep in mind that there's a big difference from being listed as a "recruiting partner" or something like that, and a real ongoing relationship established over time (burnished by alumni throughout the ranks). It's kind of like b-school rankings - relationship changes take a long time because it will be a decade before new grads ascend the ranks into real decision-making positions.