[data] Anonymous admission contribution

[YichengYang-Ethan]

Profile

• GPA: 3.82
• GRE: Q170 / V162 (AW 4.0 — not used in v2)
• University: Pennsylvania State University
• Majors: Applied Mathematics + Computing Statistics (modeled as Applied Math + Statistics)
• International: yes
• Internships: Mid-tier brokerage equity research; top brokerage DCM
• Other: Quant capstone (NumPy/Pandas); investment club research

Prediction Results

• Master of Science in Financial Engineering (New York University): 73% [63%-82%] — safety
• Master of Science in Quantitative and Computational Finance (Georgia Institute of Technology): 66% [31%-89%] — target
• Master of Science in Mathematics in Finance (New York University): 59% [42%-75%] — target
• Master of Arts in Mathematics of Finance (Columbia University): 57% [41%-72%] — target
• Master of Science in Financial Mathematics (University of Chicago): 55% [42%-67%] — target
• Master of Financial Engineering (Cornell University): 53% [36%-71%] — target
• Master of Science in Computational Finance (Carnegie Mellon University): 53% [42%-63%] — target
• Master of Financial Engineering (University of California, Berkeley): 47% [24%-72%] — target
• Master of Science in Financial Engineering (Columbia University): 42% [33%-52%] — target
• MS in Financial Economics (Columbia University): 31% [7%-73%] — reach
• Master of Finance (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): 31% [16%-50%] — reach
• Master in Finance (Princeton University): 21% [7%-47%] — reach
• Master in Asset Management (Yale University): 21% [6%-51%] — reach
• Master of Science in Mathematical and Computational Finance (Stanford University): 19% [9%-36%] — reach
• Master of Financial Engineering (Baruch College, City University of New York): 17% [5%-45%] — reach

Command: quantpath predict --profile profiles/data_contrib_22fall_psu_mfe.yaml (GPBoost v2 — retrained 2026-04-02). 15 programs — 6 reach / 8 target / 1 safety.

Actual Outcomes

Accepted

• JHU MSFM, Umich QFRM, WUSTL MSQF, USC MFE, Columbia MSOR, BU MSMFT: accepted (not in focused 15)
• Master of Science in Mathematics in Finance (NYU Courant): accepted

Rejected

• Master of Finance (MIT): rejected
• MS in Financial Economics (Columbia CBS): rejected (not identical to columbia-msfe-econ row)
• Master of Science in Financial Mathematics (University of Chicago): rejected

Waitlist / pending (reported)

• Master of Science in Financial Engineering (NYU Tandon): waitlist
• Master of Arts in Mathematics of Finance (Columbia University): waitlist
• Master in Asset Management (Yale SOM): waitlist

Model accuracy note

Courant admit vs ~54% target. Tandon waitlist vs ~69% target. CBS MSFE vs IEOR MSFE not distinguished in one global feature vector.

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Data contribution — 22Fall MFE results + PSU BG. profiles/data_contrib_22fall_psu_mfe.yaml.