Same candidate, different system.
What it is
Who Gets In? is the official-public-source research programme from Elite Careers Strategy examining how highly selective employers and universities say they choose people. Led by Hassan Akram, it preserves institution, programme, market, observation date, denominator and limitation beside the evidence. The current canonical corpus contains 1387 governed selection signals backed by 494 unique official source records. It is not a ranking, acceptance-rate database or representative survey of all elite institutions.
Bank AI rules: 18 checked, stage-specific findings
In the 18-bank cut of WGI’s 67-employer AI Rules Register v2.1, observed 2026-10-23, official statements on AI in selection were located for 10 banks; none was located on the official pages checked for 8.
Of the 7 banks with coded rules on candidates’ own AI use, 5 allow help with written applications (with the limits recorded below), 5 prohibit AI in interviews and 0 explicitly allow it in interviews. These are stage-specific counts, not a blanket ban or permission across recruitment.
This is a purposive list, not a representative sample of banks. No statement located does not mean no policy exists. The research records published statements; it does not audit actual hiring practice, enforcement or AI detection. Market and programme scope differ by record. Snapshot observation date: 2026-10-23; media presentation revised 2026-10-06.
Current published bank tracker · Full 67-employer tracker. The original eight-institution AI comparison is a separate historical subset; its denominator must not be substituted for either of these.
Bank-by-bank evidence, official sources and scope for all 10 located statements.
No statement located (8)
Goldman Sachs; JPMorganChase; Morgan Stanley; Bank of America; Jefferies; Lazard; Evercore; Centerview Partners. This finding is limited to the official pages checked at the snapshot date.
Download the bank-only evidence
18 banks, six stages each. Both formats retain scope, register dates, official quotations, source links and stage notes, including banks where no statement was located.
Bank-only evidence (CSV) · Bank-only evidence (JSON) · Reuse guide and limitations (TXT)
Citation and reusable data
Akram, H. (2026). What banks officially tell candidates about using AI. Who Gets In? AI Rules Tracker v2.1, bank cut (18 banks), observed 2026-10-23. https://whogetsin.com/trackers/ai-policy/banks. Credit: Who Gets In?, a research programme of Elite Careers Strategy. CC BY 4.0.
Full 67-employer register (JSON; not bank-only) · Full 67-employer register (CSV; not bank-only) · Methodology and coding rules · Corrections.
What is now directly citable
Historical eight-institution AI-policy subset. See the current bank cut above. The defined comparison contains 8 institutions. Use the published finding with its denominator rather than as an all-employer prevalence estimate.
Human-review subset. 7 institutions have explicit checked evidence of human judgement or review in the defined subset.
Cross-market dossiers. BlackRock is the first five-hub anchor. Goldman Sachs, Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Morgan Stanley now have bounded institution dossiers at varying evidence depth.
Answerability. The 30-question benchmark is now 29 authoritative, 0 strong, 0 partial and 1 research-gap answers.
What it does not show
- No national or sector prevalence estimate unless explicitly denominated.
- No ranking of markets or institutions.
- No hidden scoring or candidate-weighting model.
- No acceptance odds or universal conversion rate.
- No inference that an unobserved feature is absent.
- No private ECS client evidence is used as WGI research evidence.
A live example of the research system working
Earlier research could not establish programme-level Morgan Stanley evidence for Singapore or Dubai. On 13 September, later official Morgan Stanley Campus listings exposed a 2027 Investment Banking route covering Singapore and a separate 2027 Dubai Investment Banking Off-Cycle Internship. WGI preserved the failed-search record, marked the gap resolved, and promoted the new evidence rather than rewriting the prior uncertainty. Morgan Stanley is now classified FIVE_HUB_COVERAGE_FOUR_VERIFIED_ONE_PARTIAL.
Check the evidence
Overview · 30-question benchmark · Institution dossiers · Methodology · Source register · Full source pack
Founder
Hassan Akram founded Who Gets In?, a research project on how highly selective employers choose early-career talent. It is run by Elite Careers Strategy, the private career advisory firm he also founded. He reports reviewing more than 10,000 applications and related candidate materials across recruitment work and ECS advisory. He has been featured in the Financial Times. That is biographical context, not validation or endorsement of Who Gets In?.
Media: hassan@accessecs.com