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  "name": "Who Gets In? research updates",
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  "publisher": "Elite Careers Strategy",
  "research_lead": "Hassan Akram",
  "relationship": "Who Gets In? is the research arm of Elite Careers Strategy. We examine how the world’s most selective institutions choose talent.",
  "last_updated": "2026-09-14T10:00:00+01:00",
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      "New York",
      "Hong Kong",
      "Singapore",
      "Dubai/GCC"
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    "governed_findings": 4,
    "ai_policy_denominator": 8,
    "human_review_denominator": 7,
    "longitudinal_pairs": 1,
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      "C": 0,
      "D": 1,
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    "focus": "US / New York elite law and banking/advisory",
    "status": "PARTIALLY_PROMOTED_TO_CANONICAL_PUBLICATION",
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      "SIG-204",
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      "SIG-214",
      "SIG-215",
      "SIG-216",
      "SIG-217",
      "SIG-218",
      "SIG-219",
      "SIG-220",
      "SIG-221",
      "SIG-222",
      "SIG-223",
      "SIG-224",
      "SIG-225",
      "SIG-226",
      "SIG-227",
      "SIG-228",
      "SIG-229",
      "SIG-230",
      "SIG-231",
      "SIG-232",
      "SIG-233",
      "SIG-234",
      "SIG-235",
      "SIG-236",
      "SIG-237",
      "SIG-238",
      "SIG-239",
      "SIG-240",
      "SIG-241",
      "SIG-242",
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      "SIG-245",
      "SIG-246",
      "SIG-247",
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      "SIG-249",
      "SIG-250",
      "SIG-251",
      "SIG-252",
      "SIG-253",
      "SIG-254",
      "SIG-255",
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      "SIG-257",
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      "SRC-130",
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      "SRC-137",
      "SRC-138",
      "SRC-139",
      "SRC-140",
      "SRC-141",
      "SRC-142",
      "SRC-143",
      "SRC-144",
      "SRC-145",
      "SRC-146",
      "SRC-147",
      "SRC-148",
      "SRC-149",
      "SRC-150",
      "SRC-151",
      "SRC-152",
      "SRC-153",
      "SRC-154",
      "SRC-155",
      "SRC-156",
      "SRC-157"
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    {
      "date": "2026-09-15",
      "type": "canonical_release",
      "summary": "Canonical governed evidence now runs through SIG-283 and SRC-167: 283 signals, 163 unique official source records, 1 verified longitudinal pair and a 30-question benchmark with 29 authoritative answers."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-14",
      "type": "canonical_us_promotion",
      "summary": "Ten high-leverage US selection signals were promoted into canonical supplement 11 with eight official-source provenance records. Canonical public state is now 212 signals and at least 135 source records; remaining US observations stay governed staging until their evidence passages are preserved."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-14",
      "type": "bounded_answer_compounding",
      "summary": "Three canonical question-first answer objects were published for US law grade/transcript gates, Suited assessment use in advisory recruiting, and application/office route constraints. A machine-readable answers.json bank now powers the WGI intelligence MCP."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-14",
      "type": "mcp_governance_fix",
      "summary": "Canonical signal and source-provenance loaders were changed from hard-coded supplement lists to dynamic append-only discovery, removing a recurring failure mode where new governed releases existed publicly but were invisible to MCP agents."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-14",
      "type": "governed_us_expansion",
      "summary": "A governed 60-signal, 30-source US elite-law and banking/advisory expansion occupies SIG-203..SIG-262 / SRC-128..SRC-157. Ten signals and eight sources are now canonical; the remainder is staged."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-14",
      "type": "canonical_reconciliation",
      "summary": "Machine-readable WGI surfaces were reconciled to the repository's actual canonical public release. Earlier 186/119 metadata was stale and corrected without rewriting frozen historical publications."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-13",
      "type": "authority_surface",
      "summary": "Bounded question-first answers publish direct answers with denominators, limitations and routes into governed findings, reports and source records."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-13",
      "type": "authority_routing",
      "summary": "ECS practitioner research and sitewide surfaces route current factual elite-selection questions to Who Gets In? while preserving the distinction between governed public-source research and practitioner observation."
    }
  ],
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    "bounded_answers": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/answers.json",
    "research_manifest": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/research.json",
    "dataset_metadata": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/dataset.jsonld",
    "ai_index": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/llms.txt",
    "five_hub_comparison": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/hub-comparison-2026-09-12.json",
    "ai_selection_comparison": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/ai-selection-comparison-2026-09-12.json",
    "findings_bank": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/findings-bank-2026-09-12.json",
    "coverage_gaps": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/coverage-gaps-2026-09-13.json",
    "category_ownership_scoreboard": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/category-ownership-scoreboard.json",
    "ai_citation_benchmark": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/ai-citation-benchmark.json",
    "atom_feed": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/feed.xml",
    "selection_change_tracker": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/change-tracker.json",
    "explorer": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/explorer/",
    "mcp_endpoint": "https://www.accessecs.com/api/mcp",
    "us_governed_staging": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/us-elite-selection-expansion-2026-09-14.json",
    "primary_answer_library": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/benchmark-answers.json",
    "ai_policy_tracker": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/trackers/ai-policy/",
    "answerability_graph": "https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/answerability.jsonld"
  },
  "scope_note": "The 107-signal register and six-market reports are frozen publication snapshots. Current canonical public evidence comprises the frozen legacy register plus all dated canonical supplements, including supplement 11. Remaining staged US IDs must not be presented as canonical until their evidence-passage gate is complete."
}