Current student here with a pet peeve to share about the coffee chat research process. Admissions ambassadors are students who have volunteered to be the points of contact for prospective students to chat with, whether you want a perspective from a vet, engineer, artist, STEM designation, etc.

If these students have offered themselves as resources, why are you reaching out to students who haven't volunteered over LinkedIn or email unless you have a warm intro?

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You need to make your LinkedIn profile private and take your info off public social media. I never got reached out during my time at a M7 mba bc I had everything on private.

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I legit fucking despise LinkedIn so I didn’t use it for recruiting at all, but my understanding is that recruiters can bypass privacy if you set your profile to viewable by recruiters only. All my recruiting was done on campus in person via networking with speakers and attending on campus coffee chats (investment management)

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Admissions ambassadors won’t tell you the truth, they are there to push the school’s positives only.

If you want to know what is really going on at a program, you need to talk to more honest students.

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If you do reach out to anyone, whether they're admissions ambassadors or not, some tips:

Explain why you want to talk to us. If you can't even do that, then it shows you don't care enough to put in the effort or you're just trying to tick off a box.

Give an easy ask: a 10-25 minute call (30 minutes max), being open to receiving voice messages or an email chain.

Tbh I’ve only done this if someone interned in a particular industry and function that I’m writing about in my application. Outside of that, I’ve always done the admissions ambassadors and had varying success of people saying yes to my outreach calls with some schools better than others.

This is fair. I encountered the same frustrations with some schools' admissions ambassadors.

I go to a school with responsive ambassadors, and the requests I've personally fielded were general enough that they could have gone to an official ambassador, which is why I'm confused when people reach out to me over LinkedIn or email.

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