Dear Applicant

Dear Applicant is a sharp, character-driven novel about ambition, elite business education, and the internal conflicts that define the pursuit of success.As acceptance calls roll in from an elite business school, a new MBA class begins to assemble: a corporate wunderkind determined to dominate Wall Street, a thoughtful equity researcher searching for meaningful work, a consultant obsessed with systems and probability, a startup operator born into privilege. But hiding in plain sight is a force bent on turning dream jobs into recruiting nightmares.Over the next year, friendships form, rivalries intensify, and the polished mythology of elite business education begins to crack. Beneath the networking events, consulting interviews, and leadership slogans lies a question that most are too scared to face: What happens when even the pretense of meritocracy is abandoned? And the even more terrifying: What can we do about it?Set against the world of MBA curriculum, recruiting cycles, and institutional prestige, Dear Applicant blends satire, realism, and psychological insight into a story about status, the pursuit of success, and the very definition of merit.