So MBA application season is beginning again, so here's a reminder to please reach out to schools' appointed student speakers/ambassadors as your first point of contact instead of reaching out to randoms on LinkedIn.

Student speakers/ambassadors span all identities, backgrounds, and interests, and are voluntarily making themselves available for coffee chats, not randoms you find on LinkedIn. 🫩

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Google "[school] student ambassadors," and you'll find the websites. There you can filter for recruiting targets, pre-MBA backgrounds, etc. Much more efficient than spamming people on LinkedIn. I'm not sure why Googling this is so hard to do because schools will advertise student ambassadors on their websites and email newsletters.

Guys, if you all can't do this basic research, then it shows us that you're not focused enough or care enough to help yourself and likely can't use our time effectively, even if we want to help.

Sorry if this sounds harsh, but this is what we're thinking in our heads, even if we won't directly say it to your faces.

You know what I find amusing?

When I did my networking for approx a year for 6 schools I was reaching out to 'randoms' on linkedin as you point out. Those randoms were still BCGers and many agreed to chat, some even multiple times.

Then I reached out to two student ambassadors (although I didnt even know it at that point) via linkedin.

One gave me his whatsapp and then ghosted me even after sending a reminder.

...and the other was the only person who said she didnt have time for a call and told me to write questions in the chat.

Student ambassadors are just mascots chosen for political or diversity reasons. The former was a douche from a highly developed country who was clearly racist towards me as I come from a small, insignificant country, while the other still isnt employed after her mba - clearly a diversity admit.

What a waste.

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That's fair, especially since some schools' ambassadors suck. I'm glad these LinkedIn connections worked out for you, and it seems like you were intentional and invested time and care into your requests and chats.

But for other schools, ambassadors are responsive and should be the first outreach. If someone does a LinkedIn cold outreach, then their connection request must show some level of effort. Many are just spamming generic connection requests or reach out to me despite complete opposite backgrounds and interests, so they can check a box.

OK LinkedIn police stfu.

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