[data] Anonymous admission contribution

[YichengYang-Ethan]

Profile

• GPA: 3.94
• GRE: Q169 / V155 (IELTS 7.5 per post — not in v2)
• Path: 末985 + 海本 (modeled as Sun Yat-sen University + partial US time; poster did not name schools)
• Majors: Economics + Mathematics; minor Data Science
• International: yes
• Internships: 5 (big-tech quant/algo, quant PE, startup, SOE insurtech, etc.)
• Research: 5 SCI papers (IF ~2–8) with faculty

Prediction Results

• Master of Science in Financial Engineering (New York University): 78% [68%-85%] — safety
• Master of Science in Quantitative and Computational Finance (Georgia Institute of Technology): 67% [32%-90%] — target
• Master of Science in Mathematics in Finance (New York University): 64% [47%-78%] — target
• Master of Arts in Mathematics of Finance (Columbia University): 63% [48%-76%] — target
• Master of Science in Financial Mathematics (University of Chicago): 60% [47%-71%] — target
• Master of Financial Engineering (Cornell University): 58% [41%-74%] — target
• Master of Science in Computational Finance (Carnegie Mellon University): 57% [47%-67%] — target
• Master of Financial Engineering (University of California, Berkeley): 50% [27%-74%] — target
• Master of Science in Financial Engineering (Columbia University): 49% [39%-58%] — target
• MS in Financial Economics (Columbia University): 42% [13%-78%] — target
• Master in Asset Management (Yale University): 38% [18%-64%] — reach
• Master of Finance (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): 35% [20%-54%] — reach
• Master of Science in Mathematical and Computational Finance (Stanford University): 30% [17%-46%] — reach
• Master in Finance (Princeton University): 24% [9%-49%] — reach
• Master of Financial Engineering (Baruch College, City University of New York): 18% [5%-46%] — reach

Command: quantpath predict --profile profiles/data_contrib_26fall_985_overseas.yaml (GPBoost v2 — retrained 2026-04-02). 15 programs — 5 reach / 9 target / 1 safety.

Actual Outcomes

Accepted (reported)

• Master of Science in Financial Engineering (NYU Tandon): accepted
• UIUC MFE, JHU FinMath, USC DS, Columbia MA Statistics, UIUC MS Statistics: accepted (not all in focused 15)

Rejected

• Master of Financial Engineering (Baruch College): rejected (QBA 8/8; interviewed)

Pending / unknown in crops

• GaTech QCF: interviewed; final admit not shown. Lottery row (Stanford MCF, CMU MSCF, etc.): outcomes not fully visible.

Model accuracy note

Baruch reject vs ~18% reach. NYU Tandon admit vs ~78% safety — consistent directionally.

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Data contribution — 26Fall BG + timelines. profiles/data_contrib_26fall_985_overseas.yaml.