Data Scale: FindingSchool leverages an extensive data set that exceeds that of similar rankings, ensuring accurate and relevant evaluations through well-defined weight distributions and scoring mechanisms.
Weight Distribution: We gathered feedback from thousands of families and consulted over 50 industry experts to create ranking weights tailored to the needs of Asian students.
Scoring Mechanism: Each of the 46 distinct data points is evaluated using unique mathematical models, scoring based on its position within the overall data distribution.
Basis for Ranking: Instead of absolute values, we focus on relative differences in data. There is no fixed score threshold for separating schools; instead, the “admission cutoff” is adjusted annually based on data trends, similar to college entrance exams.
The school page currently displays an evaluation card that includes an overall rating and ratings across five key categories, totaling 46 data points. The five categories are: Geographic Community, Academic Strength, Matriculation Level, Extracurricular Activities, and FindingSchool Reviews. Visitors can easily view the overall score and ratings for each dimension (ranging from A+ to C). For boarding schools, detailed total score rankings are also included
The data used for evaluations and rankings comes from three primary sources: official school data, public data, and user-submitted data on FindingSchool.
The entire scoring system is based on mathematical models derived from statistical analysis of samples from hundreds of schools across various levels. Each data point receives a corresponding rating based on its percentile position within the overall predicted distribution.
In the boarding school evaluation:: A- and above account for 45% of the total, B- and above account for 40%, C accounts for 15%.
In the day school evaluation: A- and above account for 30% of the total, B- and above account for 51%, C and others account for 19%.
1. [30% - Matriculation Dimension]: Ivy League admission rate, admission rate for Top 25 National Universities and Top 5 Liberal Arts Colleges, admission rate for Top 50 National Universities and Top 10 Liberal Arts Colleges, admission rate for Top 100 National Universities and Top 25 Liberal Arts Colleges, along with a summary of historical admissions data.
2. [24% - Academic Dimension]: Course offerings (AP, IB, Honors, and Advanced courses), percentage of teachers with a master’s degree or higher, percentage of AP exam scores of 3, 4, or 5, average scores on standardized tests (SAT and ACT), scores in AMC math competitions, and results in FRC robotics competitions.
3. [14% - Extracurricular Activities]: Alumni donation rate, number of clubs and activities, ratings for competitive sports teams, and ratings for arts programs.
4. [12% - FindingSchool Reviews]: FindingSchool website rating, review comments on FindingSchool, and historical rating trends.
5. [8% - Geographic Community]: State resource evaluation, density score of nearby top universities, distance to the nearest international airport, convenience of local amenities, transportation convenience, city crime rate, and educational level of the local population.
Ranking | University/College | Students |
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#1 | Princeton University | 14 |
#2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4 |
#3 | Harvard College | 36 |
#3 | Stanford University | 7 |
#3 | Yale University | 27 |
LAC #1 | Williams College | 8 |
#6 | University of Chicago | 19 |
#7 | Johns Hopkins University | 6 |
#7 | University of Pennsylvania | 17 |
#10 | Duke University | 11 |
#10 | Northwestern University | 17 |
LAC #2 | Amherst College | 6 |
#12 | Dartmouth College | 10 |
#13 | Brown University | 35 |
#13 | Vanderbilt University | 2 |
#15 | Washington University in St. Louis | 14 |
LAC #3 | Pomona College | 4 |
#17 | Cornell University | 38 |
#18 | Columbia University | 18 |
#18 | University of Notre Dame | 3 |
#20 | University of California: Berkeley | 2 |
#20 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 |
LAC #4 | Swarthmore College | 4 |
#22 | Carnegie Mellon University | 6 |
#22 | Emory University | 14 |
#22 | Georgetown University | 9 |
#25 | New York University | 14 |
#25 | University of Michigan | 9 |
#25 | University of Southern California | 3 |
#25 | University of Virginia | 1 |
#29 | Wake Forest University | 2 |
LAC #6 | Bowdoin College | 7 |
LAC #6 | Carleton College | 3 |
#32 | Tufts University | 16 |
#36 | Boston College | 6 |
#38 | University of California: Davis | 1 |
#38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 |
#38 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 4 |
#41 | Boston University | 3 |
#44 | Brandeis University | 1 |
#44 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 |
#44 | Northeastern University | 4 |
#44 | Tulane University | 4 |
#51 | Lehigh University | 2 |
#51 | Purdue University | 1 |
#51 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 2 |
#55 | University of Miami | 2 |
LAC #11 | Middlebury College | 3 |
#62 | George Washington University | 1 |
#62 | Syracuse University | 4 |
#62 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 |
LAC #13 | Vassar College | 3 |
#72 | American University | 1 |
#72 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 |
#72 | Southern Methodist University | 1 |
LAC #15 | Davidson College | 1 |
LAC #15 | Grinnell College | 3 |
LAC #15 | Hamilton College | 12 |
#76 | Muhlenberg College | 1 |
#77 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 |
#84 | Bennington College | 2 |
#85 | University of Puget Sound | 1 |
#89 | Elon University | 1 |
LAC #18 | Barnard College | 1 |
LAC #18 | Colgate University | 1 |
LAC #18 | Haverford College | 5 |
LAC #18 | University of Richmond | 1 |
LAC #18 | Wesleyan University | 17 |
#97 | Clark University | 1 |
#105 | Miami University: Oxford | 2 |
#105 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 2 |
#105 | University of Arizona | 1 |
LAC #24 | Colby College | 3 |
#121 | Chapman University | 1 |
#121 | Temple University | 1 |
#121 | University of Vermont | 1 |
LAC #27 | Colorado College | 4 |
LAC #31 | Kenyon College | 5 |
LAC #33 | Pitzer College | 2 |
LAC #33 | Scripps College | 1 |
#166 | Quinnipiac University | 1 |
LAC #37 | Bucknell University | 2 |
LAC #37 | Occidental College | 3 |
LAC #39 | Skidmore College | 4 |
LAC #39 | Trinity College | 1 |
LAC #51 | Dickinson College | 2 |
LAC #60 | Bard College | 1 |
American University of Paris | 1 | |
binghamton university, state university of new york | 2 | |
City University of New York: Hunter College | 1 | |
Durham University | 1 | |
Emerson College | 1 | |
Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | |
McGill University | 2 | |
Oberlin College | 3 | |
parsons school of design | 1 | |
Pratt Institute | 2 | |
Rhode Island School of Design | 2 | |
St. John's College | 1 | |
The New School College of Performing Arts | 2 | |
University of Colorado Boulder | 1 | |
University of Edinburgh | 1 | |
University of St. Andrews | 5 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2016-2020 | 2015-2019 | Total |
All schools | 411 | 413 | 403 | 387 | 368 | ||
#1 | Princeton University | 14 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 20 | 78 |
#2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 20 |
#3 | Harvard College | 36 | 36 | 35 | 34 | 32 | 173 |
#3 | Stanford University | 7 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 39 |
#5 | Yale University | 27 | 27 | 22 | 26 | 25 | 127 |
#6 | University of Pennsylvania | 17 | 17 | 19 | 26 | 24 | 103 |
#7 | California Institute of Technology | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
#7 | Duke University | 11 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 51 |
#9 | Northwestern University | 17 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 86 |
#9 | Johns Hopkins University | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 25 |
#9 | Brown University | 35 | 35 | 32 | 31 | 35 | 168 |
#12 | Columbia University | 18 | 18 | 20 | 17 | 17 | 90 |
#12 | University of Chicago | 19 | 19 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 86 |
#12 | Cornell University | 38 | 38 | 39 | 33 | 30 | 178 |
#15 | University of California: Berkeley | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
#15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
#18 | Dartmouth College | 10 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 59 |
#18 | Vanderbilt University | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 16 |
#20 | University of Notre Dame | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
#21 | University of Michigan | 9 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 39 |
#22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 | 1 | ||||
#22 | Georgetown University | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 45 |
#24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 26 |
#24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 14 | 14 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 62 |
#24 | Emory University | 14 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 56 |
#24 | University of Virginia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
#28 | University of Southern California | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 17 |
#28 | University of California: Davis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#35 | New York University | 14 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 63 |
#35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 15 |
#38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
#39 | Boston College | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 23 |
#40 | Tufts University | 16 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 76 |
#43 | Boston University | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | |
#47 | Wake Forest University | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
#47 | Lehigh University | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 16 |
#51 | Purdue University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
#53 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
#53 | Northeastern University | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 |
#60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
#60 | Brandeis University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
#67 | University of Miami | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
#67 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
#67 | Syracuse University | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 18 |
#67 | George Washington University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
#73 | Tulane University | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
#73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
#73 | SUNY University at Binghamton | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
#89 | Southern Methodist University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
#89 | Temple University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#93 | University of Iowa | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#93 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
#98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
#105 | American University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
#105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#115 | University of Arizona | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#133 | University of Vermont | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
#133 | Miami University: Oxford | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
#133 | Elon University | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
#133 | Chapman University | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
#142 | Clark University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#170 | Quinnipiac University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
#201 | The New School College of Performing Arts | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2016-2020 | 2015-2019 | Total |
All schools | 116 | 116 | 133 | 141 | 134 | ||
#1 | Williams College | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 38 |
#2 | Amherst College | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 38 |
#4 | Wellesley College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#4 | Swarthmore College | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 |
#4 | Pomona College | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 29 |
#9 | Bowdoin College | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 35 |
#9 | Carleton College | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 |
#11 | Middlebury College | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 28 |
#11 | Barnard College | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
#11 | Wesleyan University | 17 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 17 | 88 |
#11 | Grinnell College | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 17 |
#16 | Harvey Mudd College | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
#16 | Vassar College | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 20 |
#16 | Hamilton College | 12 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 64 |
#16 | Davidson College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#21 | Haverford College | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 18 |
#21 | Colgate University | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 15 |
#24 | Bates College | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | ||
#25 | Colby College | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 18 |
#25 | University of Richmond | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
#30 | Bucknell University | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 13 |
#33 | Colorado College | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 | |
#35 | Occidental College | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 16 |
#35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
#35 | Scripps College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
#38 | Skidmore College | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 |
#39 | Kenyon College | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 28 |
#39 | Trinity College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
#39 | Pitzer College | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
#46 | Dickinson College | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
#46 | Whitman College | 1 | 1 | ||||
#46 | Connecticut College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#67 | Reed College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#70 | Muhlenberg College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
#72 | Bard College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
#75 | St. John's College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#89 | University of Puget Sound | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
#93 | Drew University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#100 | Sarah Lawrence College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#112 | Bennington College | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
#139 | Hampshire College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
Oberlin College | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 16 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2016-2020 | 2015-2019 | Total |
All schools | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
#3 | McGill University | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2016-2020 | 2015-2019 | Total |
All schools | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
#5 | University of Edinburgh | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#28 | Durham University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#33 | University of St. Andrews | 5 | 5 | 10 |
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Track and Field
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Wrestling
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the Performing Arts Club
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the Environment Club
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Wildlife Club
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the Asian Cultures Club
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Spectrum
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the Performing Arts Club
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the Environment Club
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Wildlife Club
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the Asian Cultures Club
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Spectrum
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