[data] Anonymous admission contribution

[YichengYang-Ethan]

Profile

• GPA: 3.6
• GRE: 329 (Q170 V159)
• TOEFL: 108
• University: Other (两财一贸 211, non-985)
• Majors: Finance
• International: yes
• Internships: 3x — 1 research/行研, 1 audit/审计, 1 quant (very scattered, self-described "没啥规划")
• Research: none mentioned
• Self-described: "美国申的稀烂", "全聚德", "惨淡的24fall申请季"
• Season: 24Fall

Prediction Results

• Master of Science in Financial Engineering (New York University): 50% [38%-62%] — target
• Master of Science in Quantitative and Computational Finance (Georgia Institute of Technology): 47% [16%-80%] — target
• Master of Science in Mathematics in Finance (New York University): 34% [19%-52%] — reach
• Master of Science in Financial Mathematics (University of Chicago): 31% [20%-44%] — reach
• Master of Arts in Mathematics of Finance (Columbia University): 31% [18%-48%] — reach
• Master of Financial Engineering (Cornell University): 29% [15%-49%] — reach
• Master of Science in Computational Finance (Carnegie Mellon University): 27% [19%-38%] — reach
• Master of Financial Engineering (University of California, Berkeley): 27% [10%-54%] — reach
• Master of Science in Financial Engineering (Columbia University): 19% [13%-28%] — reach
• Master of Finance (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): 13% [5%-30%] — reach
• MS in Financial Economics (Columbia University): 8% [1%-59%] — reach
• Master in Finance (Princeton University): 8% [2%-30%] — reach
• Master of Financial Engineering (Baruch College, City University of New York): 8% [2%-31%] — reach
• Master of Science in Mathematical and Computational Finance (Stanford University): 4% [1%-16%] — reach
• Master in Asset Management (Yale University): 2% [0%-26%] — reach

Command: quantpath predict --profile profiles/data_contrib_issue_23.yaml (GPBoost v2 — retrained 2026-04-02). 15 programs — 13 reach / 2 target / 0 safety.

Actual Outcomes

Accepted (only Asia programs)

• NUS MFE: accepted
• NTU MFE: accepted (最终去向)

Rejected

• Master of Finance (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): rejected
• MA in Applied Mathematics (Yale University): rejected
• Columbia MFE (哥大 mfe): rejected
• JHU AMS: rejected
• Master of Science in Financial Mathematics (University of Chicago): rejected (芝大 fin)
• Duke MAM: rejected

Waitlisted

• UCB Analytics: waitlisted

Pending / No response (basically rejected)

• Master of Financial Engineering (Cornell University): no response (Cornell ORIE-MFE)
• UCLA MFE: no response
• NUS QF: no response
• NUS Fin: no response
• NTU Fin: no response
• HKU Fin: deferred

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Manually submitted from public 小红书 post (24fall留学 美申的稀烂 最后去ntumfe了, 小红书号: 401557052)