[data] Anonymous admission contribution

[YichengYang-Ethan]

Profile

• GPA: 3.93
• University: Sino-foreign joint-venture Financial Engineering (poster; non–top-tier vs Tsinghua/Peking/Fudan/SJTU)
• International: yes
• Internships: 2 quantitative internships
• GRE / TOEFL: placeholders in YAML — GRE Q 169, TOEFL 105 (not in original screenshots)

Prediction Results

• Master of Science in Financial Engineering (New York University): 67% [56%-77%] — target
• Master of Science in Quantitative and Computational Finance (Georgia Institute of Technology): 55% [21%-85%] — target
• Master of Science in Mathematics in Finance (New York University): 51% [34%-68%] — target
• Master of Arts in Mathematics of Finance (Columbia University): 50% [34%-66%] — target
• Master of Science in Financial Mathematics (University of Chicago): 47% [34%-60%] — target
• Master of Financial Engineering (Cornell University): 45% [28%-64%] — target
• Master of Science in Computational Finance (Carnegie Mellon University): 44% [34%-55%] — target
• Master of Financial Engineering (University of California, Berkeley): 37% [16%-65%] — reach
• Master of Science in Financial Engineering (Columbia University): 36% [26%-46%] — reach
• MS in Financial Economics (Columbia University): 29% [6%-72%] — reach
• Master in Asset Management (Yale University): 25% [9%-54%] — reach
• Master of Finance (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): 24% [11%-44%] — reach
• Master of Science in Mathematical and Computational Finance (Stanford University): 19% [9%-35%] — reach
• Master in Finance (Princeton University): 16% [5%-42%] — reach
• Master of Financial Engineering (Baruch College, City University of New York): 12% [2%-41%] — reach

Command: quantpath predict --profile profiles/data_contrib_23fall_joint_fe.yaml (GPBoost v2 — retrained 2026-04-02). 15 programs — 8 reach / 7 target / 0 safety.

Actual Outcomes

Accepted

• Master of Financial Engineering (UC Berkeley): accepted
• Master of Science in Computational Finance (Carnegie Mellon University): accepted
• Master of Arts in Mathematics of Finance (Columbia University): accepted
• Master of Science in Mathematics in Finance (NYU Courant): accepted
• Master of Financial Engineering (Cornell University): accepted
• Master of Science in Financial Mathematics (University of Chicago): accepted
• Master of Science in Financial Engineering (NYU Tandon): accepted
• LSE Finmath, IC RMFE, NUS MFE, NTU, etc.: accepted (not in focused 15)

Rejected

• Master of Finance (MIT): rejected (after interview)

Pending / withdrawn (reported)

• Columbia MSFE: waiting at time of post. Baruch MFE: withdrawn.

Model accuracy note

Strong US offers from joint-venture background; Berkeley ~41% and CMU ~48% still landed. MIT reject after interview vs ~27% reach.

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Data contribution — 23Fall MFE summary post. profiles/data_contrib_23fall_joint_fe.yaml.