{
  "name": "Who Gets In? Global Selection Atlas v1",
  "updated": "2026-09-14",
  "status": "GOVERNED_DERIVED_RESEARCH_LAYER",
  "unit": "institution x programme x hub x selection feature x observed date",
  "evidence_states": [
    "VERIFIED",
    "PARTIAL",
    "NOT YET EVIDENCED",
    "HISTORICAL",
    "CONFLICTING",
    "NOT APPLICABLE"
  ],
  "boundary": "NOT YET EVIDENCED never means no. Atlas entries derive from canonical WGI signals; research-exhaustion records describe the state of research without becoming evidence of absence.",
  "priority_hubs": [
    "London",
    "New York",
    "Hong Kong",
    "Singapore",
    "Dubai/GCC"
  ],
  "institutions": [
    {
      "institution": "BlackRock",
      "maturity": "ANCHOR",
      "hubs": {
        "London": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-126",
            "SIG-127",
            "SIG-128",
            "SIG-137",
            "SIG-152",
            "SIG-153"
          ]
        },
        "New York": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-137",
            "SIG-152",
            "SIG-153",
            "SIG-165"
          ]
        },
        "Hong Kong": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-132",
            "SIG-133",
            "SIG-134",
            "SIG-135",
            "SIG-136",
            "SIG-137",
            "SIG-152",
            "SIG-153"
          ]
        },
        "Singapore": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-132",
            "SIG-133",
            "SIG-134",
            "SIG-135",
            "SIG-136",
            "SIG-137",
            "SIG-152",
            "SIG-153"
          ]
        },
        "Dubai/GCC": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-126",
            "SIG-127",
            "SIG-128",
            "SIG-137",
            "SIG-152",
            "SIG-153"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "institution": "Goldman Sachs",
      "maturity": "FIVE_HUB_VERIFIED",
      "hubs": {
        "London": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-146",
            "SIG-147",
            "SIG-148",
            "SIG-162",
            "SIG-163"
          ]
        },
        "New York": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-151",
            "SIG-162",
            "SIG-163"
          ]
        },
        "Hong Kong": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-149",
            "SIG-150",
            "SIG-162",
            "SIG-163",
            "SIG-164"
          ]
        },
        "Singapore": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-149",
            "SIG-150",
            "SIG-162",
            "SIG-163",
            "SIG-164"
          ]
        },
        "Dubai/GCC": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-274",
            "SIG-275",
            "SIG-276"
          ],
          "note": "Current official Goldman Sachs recruiting evidence establishes a named 2027 Dubai Investment Banking Capital Solutions Group Seasonal/Off Cycle Internship. The route is for undergraduate students, includes training and real responsibilities, and publishes a four-business/location application limit per recruiting year. Evidence is route-specific and is not represented as a universal Dubai or Goldman selection model."
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "institution": "JPMorganChase",
      "maturity": "FOUR_HUB_COVERAGE_WITH_GCC_GAP",
      "hubs": {
        "London": {
          "state": "PARTIAL",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-157"
          ]
        },
        "New York": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-270",
            "SIG-271",
            "SIG-272",
            "SIG-273"
          ],
          "note": "Current official 2027 Global Investment Banking Summer Associate evidence establishes New York as a programme location, with all listed groups available there, a nine-week programme, four days of orientation/training, MBA eligibility and a resume-based application review. This is the MBA Summer Associate route and is not silently treated as the undergraduate Summer Analyst route."
        },
        "Hong Kong": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-154",
            "SIG-155",
            "SIG-156"
          ]
        },
        "Singapore": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-154",
            "SIG-155",
            "SIG-156"
          ]
        },
        "Dubai/GCC": {
          "state": "NOT YET EVIDENCED",
          "gap_id": "WGI-GAP-JPM-GCC-001"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "institution": "Morgan Stanley",
      "maturity": "FIVE_HUB_COVERAGE_FOUR_VERIFIED_ONE_PARTIAL",
      "hubs": {
        "London": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-279",
            "SIG-280",
            "SIG-281"
          ]
        },
        "New York": {
          "state": "PARTIAL",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-160"
          ]
        },
        "Hong Kong": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-187",
            "SIG-188"
          ]
        },
        "Singapore": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-187",
            "SIG-188"
          ],
          "note": "Current 2027 Investment Banking Industrial Placement / Summer Analyst route covers Hong Kong, Singapore and Seoul; Asia excluding India candidates may apply to up to three opportunities per recruitment year."
        },
        "Dubai/GCC": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-189",
            "SIG-190"
          ],
          "note": "Current 2027 Dubai Investment Banking Off-Cycle Internship runs six months from January 2027; deadline 18 October 2026; rolling recruitment."
        }
      },
      "limit": "London, New York and Hong Kong evidence currently remains thinner and should not be treated as directly comparable in depth with the newly governed Singapore and Dubai programme cells."
    },
    {
      "institution": "Clifford Chance",
      "maturity": "FIVE_HUB_VERIFIED",
      "hubs": {
        "London": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-006",
            "SIG-120",
            "SIG-121",
            "SIG-171"
          ]
        },
        "New York": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-263",
            "SIG-264",
            "SIG-265",
            "SIG-266"
          ],
          "note": "Current official New York/US evidence now covers application materials, first-semester-grade update timing, rolling review across US summer-law-clerk recruiting and a bounded cross-office interview route involving a New York attorney."
        },
        "Hong Kong": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-169"
          ]
        },
        "Singapore": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-191",
            "SIG-192",
            "SIG-193",
            "SIG-194"
          ],
          "note": "Current candidate-facing 2027 Summer Internship page publishes the 29 January 2027 deadline, online application, Watson Glaser, associate/Graduate Recruitment interview, additional partner/counsel interview for Practice Training Contract applicants, and an internship-to-Practice-Training-Contract interview route."
        },
        "Dubai/GCC": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-129",
            "SIG-130",
            "SIG-131",
            "SIG-171"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "institution": "Freshfields",
      "maturity": "STRONG_FOUR_HUB_PROGRAMME_DEPTH",
      "hubs": {
        "London": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-143",
            "SIG-144",
            "SIG-168"
          ]
        },
        "New York": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-267",
            "SIG-268",
            "SIG-269"
          ],
          "note": "Current official US law-student evidence establishes a ten-week New York summer-associate programme and publishes callback architecture plus practice-interest matching; US callback evidence is not assumed identical across every route or cycle."
        },
        "Hong Kong": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-143",
            "SIG-144",
            "SIG-166",
            "SIG-167"
          ]
        },
        "Singapore": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-197",
            "SIG-198"
          ],
          "note": "Current Singapore IAG Summer Internship 2027 evidence establishes the 1 October–31 December 2026 application window, three-to-six-week Singapore placement and required CV, cover letter, legal writing sample and transcripts."
        },
        "Dubai/GCC": {
          "state": "VERIFIED",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-145",
            "SIG-199",
            "SIG-200",
            "SIG-201",
            "SIG-202"
          ],
          "note": "Current Dubai/MENA evidence establishes office-specific screening, a Dubai Dispute Resolution Internship application-review-to-interview sequence, and a 2027 Emirati Internship with application, interview and offer stages."
        }
      },
      "limit": "Programme-specific Singapore and MENA evidence is now directly governed, but it remains different in route type and depth from London/Hong Kong and must not be presented as one global Freshfields selection architecture."
    },
    {
      "institution": "HSBC",
      "maturity": "GLOBAL_PROCESS_LAYER",
      "hubs": {
        "London": {
          "state": "PARTIAL",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-177",
            "SIG-178",
            "SIG-179"
          ]
        },
        "New York": {
          "state": "PARTIAL",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-177",
            "SIG-178",
            "SIG-179"
          ]
        },
        "Hong Kong": {
          "state": "PARTIAL",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-177",
            "SIG-178",
            "SIG-179"
          ]
        },
        "Singapore": {
          "state": "PARTIAL",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-177",
            "SIG-178",
            "SIG-179"
          ]
        },
        "Dubai/GCC": {
          "state": "PARTIAL",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-177",
            "SIG-178",
            "SIG-179"
          ]
        }
      },
      "limit": "Global guidance is not treated as programme-specific local architecture."
    },
    {
      "institution": "UBS",
      "maturity": "GLOBAL_PROCESS_LAYER",
      "hubs": {
        "London": {
          "state": "PARTIAL",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-111",
            "SIG-112",
            "SIG-113",
            "SIG-114",
            "SIG-115",
            "SIG-124"
          ]
        },
        "New York": {
          "state": "PARTIAL",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-111",
            "SIG-112",
            "SIG-113",
            "SIG-114",
            "SIG-115",
            "SIG-124"
          ]
        },
        "Hong Kong": {
          "state": "PARTIAL",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-111",
            "SIG-112",
            "SIG-113",
            "SIG-114",
            "SIG-115",
            "SIG-124"
          ]
        },
        "Singapore": {
          "state": "PARTIAL",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-111",
            "SIG-112",
            "SIG-113",
            "SIG-114",
            "SIG-115",
            "SIG-124"
          ]
        },
        "Dubai/GCC": {
          "state": "PARTIAL",
          "signals": [
            "SIG-111",
            "SIG-112",
            "SIG-113",
            "SIG-114",
            "SIG-115",
            "SIG-124"
          ]
        }
      },
      "limit": "Global Graduate Talent and AI guidance is not silently converted into identical local programme architecture."
    }
  ],
  "derived_metrics": {
    "priority_institutions": 8,
    "five_hub_anchor_institutions": 3,
    "five_hub_anchor": "BlackRock; Goldman Sachs; Clifford Chance",
    "five_hub_coverage_institutions": 5,
    "active_research_gaps": 1,
    "resolved_research_gaps": 5,
    "research_exhaustion_records_total": 3,
    "ai_policy_denominator": 8,
    "genuine_longitudinal_pairs": 1,
    "freshfields_programme_verified_hubs": [
      "London",
      "Hong Kong",
      "Singapore",
      "Dubai/GCC"
    ]
  },
  "sources": {
    "canonical_manifest": "/research.json",
    "hub_comparison": "/hub-comparison-2026-09-12.json",
    "research_exhaustion": "/research-exhaustion-2026-09-13.json",
    "methodology": "/methodology/",
    "longitudinal_review": "/longitudinal-review-2026-09-12.json"
  }
}