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no publication action required.", "limitation": "Observed formats are firm-specific and can change by cycle." }, { "id": "US-FINANCE-CANDIDATE-PROFILES", "question": "What candidate qualities and skills do reviewed elite US banking and advisory employers explicitly publish?", "state": "CANONICAL_COMPLETE", "score": 0, "canonical_signal_count": 5, "staged_signal_count": 0, "total_signal_count": 5, "completion_percent": 100, "answer_url": null, "next_action": "Maintain via source-change monitoring; no publication action required.", "limitation": "Programme scopes differ and published attributes do not establish scoring weights or actual outcome determinants." }, { "id": "US-GRADE-GATES", "question": "Which elite US law firms explicitly wait for grades or transcripts before review, interview or offer?", "state": "CANONICAL_COMPLETE", "score": 0, "canonical_signal_count": 6, "staged_signal_count": 0, "total_signal_count": 6, "completion_percent": 100, "answer_url": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/questions/which-us-law-firms-wait-for-grades/", "next_action": "Maintain via source-change monitoring; no publication action required.", "limitation": "Programme- and cycle-specific evidence only; no market-wide prevalence claim." }, { "id": "US-LAW-SELECTION-FACTORS", "question": "What do reviewed elite US law firms explicitly say they assess beyond grades?", "state": "CANONICAL_COMPLETE", "score": 0, "canonical_signal_count": 5, "staged_signal_count": 0, "total_signal_count": 5, "completion_percent": 100, "answer_url": null, "next_action": "Maintain via source-change monitoring; no publication action required.", "limitation": "Published criteria differ by firm and route; fellowship criteria are not treated as ordinary summer-associate scoring models, and no weighting is inferred." }, { "id": "US-PSYCHOMETRICS", "question": "Which reviewed elite advisory firms explicitly use psychometric assessments and what do they say about weighting?", "state": "CANONICAL_COMPLETE", "score": 0, "canonical_signal_count": 2, "staged_signal_count": 0, "total_signal_count": 2, "completion_percent": 100, "answer_url": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/questions/which-investment-banks-use-suited/", "next_action": "Maintain via source-change monitoring; no publication action required.", "limitation": "Use of an assessment does not establish its causal weight unless the institution explicitly states it." }, { "id": "US-ROLLING-VS-NONROLLING", "question": "Which reviewed elite US routes use rolling review and which explicitly do not?", "state": "CANONICAL_COMPLETE", "score": 0, "canonical_signal_count": 8, "staged_signal_count": 0, "total_signal_count": 8, "completion_percent": 100, "answer_url": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/questions/which-elite-us-firms-use-rolling-recruiting/", "next_action": "Maintain via source-change monitoring; no publication action required.", "limitation": "Different programmes within the same institution may use different timing rules." }, { "id": "US-SCHOOL-CHANNELS", "question": "Do elite firms publish routes beyond formal target-campus recruiting?", "state": "CANONICAL_COMPLETE", "score": 0, "canonical_signal_count": 7, "staged_signal_count": 0, "total_signal_count": 7, "completion_percent": 100, "answer_url": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/questions/do-elite-firms-only-recruit-from-target-schools/", "next_action": "Maintain via source-change monitoring; no publication action required.", "limitation": "Published access routes do not establish equal probability of selection across schools." }, { "id": "US-SELECTIVITY-DENOMINATORS", "question": "Which elite employers publish an actual applicant-to-cohort denominator?", "state": "CANONICAL_COMPLETE", "score": 0, "canonical_signal_count": 1, "staged_signal_count": 0, "total_signal_count": 1, "completion_percent": 100, "answer_url": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/questions/which-elite-employers-publish-selectivity-denominators/", "next_action": "Maintain via source-change monitoring; no publication action required.", "limitation": "The Jefferies denominator is global, not a New York investment-banking acceptance rate." }, { "id": "US-TIMING-ELIGIBILITY-ARCHITECTURE", "question": "What timing, eligibility and stage architecture do reviewed elite US recruiting routes explicitly publish?", "state": "CANONICAL_COMPLETE", "score": 0, "canonical_signal_count": 6, "staged_signal_count": 0, "total_signal_count": 6, "completion_percent": 100, "answer_url": null, "next_action": "Maintain via source-change monitoring; 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