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THE TOP 1% PROFILE · PROGRAM 02

Your child’s Ivy League profile.
All of it.

We help your child build the entire profile and portfolio: a published paper, a filed patent, a real company, a competition record, and the full personal brand that ties them into one story an admissions officer remembers. 8 families a year, chosen by interview, with the founder personally involved in every one.

APPLY FOR CONSIDERATION
8 PLACES A YEAR · BY APPLICATION AND INTERVIEW
TAKES 10 MINUTES · NO FEE
ONLY 8 PORTFOLIOS A YEAR4–9 MONTHS, CASE BY CASEADMISSION BY INTERVIEW, NOT PAYMENT
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THE ENTIRE PROFILE
Everything a top 1% application contains. Most applicants manage one of these. Your child builds all five.

An Ivy League level profile, built piece by piece

THE FOUNDATION
Multiple published papers

Several first-author studies, each submitted to peer-reviewed venues.

IEEESpringerElsevier
THE ASSET
A filed patent

Your child named as inventor on a real application, drawn from their own research.

PATENT PENDING · INVENTOR: YOUR CHILD
THE PROOF OF INITIATIVE
A launched venture

A real company with revenue, or a nonprofit with real impact, grown through our network.

7 figuresA FELLOW’S HEALTH-AI COMPANY, AT 14
THE TROPHIES
The full competition season

Forms, deadlines, posters and mock judging handled, from the regionals up.

ISEFRegeneron Science Talent SearchJSHS
05 · THE FULL BRAND

We build the entire personal brand, not a list of activities. Paper, patent, venture and awards, tied into one story, positioning and presence, so an admissions officer finishes the file knowing exactly who your child is.

THE PAPER TRAIL

It ends in letters like these.

The actual acceptance letters from one Fellow’s single application season, on the wall where they belong.

Brown University acceptance letter
Brown UniversityADMITTED · IVY LEAGUE
Johns Hopkins acceptance letter
Johns HopkinsADMITTED · TOP 10 RESEARCH
UT Austin acceptance letter
UT AustinADMITTED · SCHOLARSHIP
SWIPE →ONE STUDENT · ONE SEASON · SADAF S., YRI FELLOW · CLASS OF 2030
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TWO STUDENT FILES
The actual letters, the actual papers, the actual company. One file ends in admissions, the other in revenue.

Sadaf came to us with zero research experience.
This is her file now.

Sadaf Shireen with her Brown University pennant
Sadaf ShireenIEEE · BROWN ’30
“Having a real publication changed everything. Admissions officers could see I wasn’t just talking about research, I had actually done it. The IEEE paper was the centerpiece of every application I submitted.”
WHAT WAS IN THE FILE
01First-author paper accepted at an IEEE conference: "Neural Network Optimization for Real-Time Classification Systems"
02A nonprofit she founded, built on her own research
03Recommendation letter from the PhD mentor who worked beside her
→
The outcome: admitted to Brown University, Johns Hopkins and UT Austin
Brown UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityUT Austin
A SECOND FILE

Devansh was a 9th grader who liked writing poetry.
He is now IEEE published and runs a seven-figure health-AI company.

Devansh Gupta
Devansh GuptaAGE 14

He built a framework using ECG signal instability to detect major depressive disorder, a condition affecting 280 million people that is still diagnosed by subjective assessment. The paper made him one of the youngest first authors at his IEEE conference, at fourteen. Then he did the part most programs never reach: he turned the work into companies.

WHAT IS IN HIS FILE
01First-author IEEE publication at age 14, bridging cardiology, neuroscience, immunology and machine learning
02LyrIQ, a poetry platform founded in collaboration with The Times Group
03A health-AI venture scaled to seven figures in revenue, with international partnerships
04Published poet in the Times of India
→This is the venture pillar, not described but done. At fourteen.
READ DEVANSH’S FULL CASE STUDY
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THE 8 MINUTES
Admissions officers read tens of thousands of files in a season. Yours gets minutes.

An admissions officer spends about 8 minutes on your child’s file. These are the 2 files they could open.

FILE AWITHOUT YRI
ACTIVITIES LIST · APPLICANT #41,832
  • Member, Debate Club (Grades 10–12)
  • National Honor Society
  • Volunteer, local hospital, 40 hours
  • Summer program, certificate of completion
FILE BBUILT BY YRI · THE TOP 1% PROFILE
ACTIVITIES LIST · YOUR CHILDYRI
  • First author, peer-reviewed papers (IEEE, Springer)
  • Inventor, filed patent
  • Founder, a real company with revenue
  • ISEF season, and one brand tying it together

Both students worked hard. Only one file makes the reader stop. College is a $300,000+ decision, and it turns on these 8 minutes.

We build the file on the right.
APPLY FOR THE TOP 1% PROFILE
8 FAMILIES A YEAR · BY APPLICATION AND INTERVIEW ONLY
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HOW TO APPLY
Four steps. The first takes 10 minutes and costs nothing.

Applying takes 10 minutes. We answer in two days.

STEP 01
10 min
Submit the application
Your child, their interests, their target schools. No essays, no transcripts, no fee.
STEP 02
48 hrs
We reply within 48 hours
Read by a person, not a filter. If the fit is wrong, we tell you why.
STEP 03
30 min
A call with the founder
No sales script. We decide if we can do our best work; you decide if you believe us.
STEP 04
4–9 mo
A decision, then the build
Research, patent, company, competitions and brand, planned around your child.
START THE APPLICATION
NO FEE TO APPLY · NO ESSAYS · NO TRANSCRIPTS
APPLYING DOES NOT COMMIT YOU TO ANYTHING
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WHO RUNS YRI
Backed by a full-time team of PhD mentors, research writers, and journal submission specialists.
Ishan Jain
Ishan Jain
FOUNDER

Regeneron ISEF finalist. Published in JAMA Cardiology. Conrad Challenge Top 5 worldwide. Author of ten peer-reviewed papers, presented at IEEE, ACM, and Stanford.

ISEF FINALISTJAMA CARDIOLOGYCONRAD TOP 510 PAPERS
Phillip Moheno, PhD
Phillip Moheno, PhD
SENIOR RESEARCH ADVISOR

Former President and Chief Scientist of SanRx Pharmaceuticals, and named inventor on US Patent 12,569,492. He sets the research standard at YRI and the bar every mentor on the network is held to.

PhDFORMER PHARMA PRESIDENTUS PATENT 12,569,492
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TUITION
One price for everything: the research, the patent, the company, the competitions and the brand.

Less than a college counselor. And it builds everything.

WHAT IT COSTS TO BUILD THIS FILE
Assembling it yourselfFIVE SEPARATE HIRESup to $85,000
A private college counselorESSAYS ONLY, NO RESEARCHup to $40,000
The Top 1% ProfileEVERYTHING ABOVE, ONE TEAM$9,997
“We tried everything: summer programs, college counselors, tutoring. Nothing moved the needle until she joined YRI. She published in IEEE and got into Brown and Johns Hopkins.”
Sadaf ShireenPARENT OF SADAF S. · BROWN ’30
8 PLACES A YEARADMISSION BY INTERVIEW, NOT PAYMENT
SAVE $10,000
$9,997$19,997
Or 3 payments of $3,333 · settled after acceptance
Multiple first-author publications
A patent filed in your child’s name
A launched company or nonprofit
The full ISEF and Regeneron season
The personal brand that ties it together
Unlimited 1:1 mentorship, 4 to 9 months
APPLY FOR CONSIDERATION
10-MINUTE APPLICATION · NO FEE · ANSWER IN 48 HOURS
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QUESTIONS FAMILIES ASK
Answered plainly, including the ones with an uncomfortable answer.

Because the founder is in every one of these profiles personally, and the work runs four to nine months. Past 8, the attention that makes the program work stops being possible. We close the year at 8 regardless of how many families apply.

CONSIDERATION

8 places. Reviewed individually.

Somewhere in a December admissions room, a reader opens your child’s file: a published paper, a patent with their name on it, a company they actually run. That file gets discussed. If the fit is not right, we will say so and point you to the Fellowship instead. If it is, the next nine months build the file.

8 PLACES A YEAR · 10 MINUTES · NO FEE

APPLY FOR CONSIDERATION