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 | 1 + |
#2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 + |
#3 | Harvard College | 1 + |
#3 | Stanford University | 1 + |
#3 | Yale University | 1 + |
LAC #1 | Williams College | 1 + |
#6 | University of Chicago | 1 + |
#7 | University of Pennsylvania | 1 + |
#10 | Northwestern University | 1 + |
LAC #2 | Amherst College | 1 + |
#12 | Dartmouth College | 1 + |
#13 | Brown University | 1 + |
#13 | Vanderbilt University | 1 + |
#15 | Rice University | 1 + |
#15 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 + |
LAC #3 | Pomona College | 1 + |
#17 | Cornell University | 1 + |
#18 | Columbia University | 1 + |
#22 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 + |
#22 | Emory University | 1 + |
#22 | Georgetown University | 1 + |
#25 | New York University | 1 + |
#25 | University of Michigan | 1 + |
#25 | University of Southern California | 1 + |
#25 | University of Virginia | 1 + |
#29 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 + |
#29 | Wake Forest University | 1 + |
LAC #6 | Bowdoin College | 1 + |
#36 | Boston College | 1 + |
#38 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 + |
#41 | Boston University | 1 + |
#44 | Brandeis University | 1 + |
#44 | Northeastern University | 1 + |
#44 | Tulane University | 1 + |
#51 | Lehigh University | 1 + |
#51 | Purdue University | 1 + |
#51 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 + |
#51 | Villanova University | 1 + |
#55 | Rhodes College | 1 + |
#55 | Santa Clara University | 1 + |
LAC #11 | Middlebury College | 1 + |
#62 | George Washington University | 1 + |
#62 | Syracuse University | 1 + |
#67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 + |
#72 | American University | 1 + |
#72 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 + |
#72 | Reed College | 1 + |
#72 | Southern Methodist University | 1 + |
LAC #15 | Hamilton College | 1 + |
#83 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 1 + |
#83 | University of Iowa | 1 + |
#84 | Bennington College | 1 + |
LAC #18 | Barnard College | 1 + |
LAC #18 | Colgate University | 1 + |
LAC #18 | Haverford College | 1 + |
LAC #18 | University of Richmond | 1 + |
LAC #18 | Wesleyan University | 1 + |
#105 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 + |
LAC #24 | Colby College | 1 + |
#121 | University of Vermont | 1 + |
LAC #25 | Bates College | 1 + |
LAC #27 | Colorado College | 1 + |
#137 | University of New Hampshire | 1 + |
LAC #29 | Harvey Mudd College | 1 + |
#151 | University of Mississippi | 1 + |
LAC #31 | Bryn Mawr College | 1 + |
LAC #33 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 + |
LAC #33 | Pitzer College | 1 + |
LAC #36 | Mount Holyoke College | 1 + |
LAC #37 | Bucknell University | 1 + |
LAC #39 | Skidmore College | 1 + |
LAC #39 | Trinity College | 1 + |
LAC #55 | Connecticut College | 1 + |
LAC #61 | Gettysburg College | 1 + |
College of William and Mary | 1 + | |
Franklin & Marshall College | 1 + | |
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering | 1 + | |
Johnson & Wales University: Providence | 1 + | |
McGill University | 1 + | |
Oberlin College | 1 + | |
Penn State University Park | 1 + | |
Providence College | 1 + | |
Union College | 1 + | |
University of Manchester | 1 + | |
University of St. Andrews | 1 + | |
University of Toronto | 1 + | |
Wheaton College | 1 + |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
All schools | 49 | 73 | 109 | 117 | 97 | ||
#1 | Princeton University | 1 + | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
#2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 + | 1 | 3 | 5 | ||
#3 | Stanford University | 1 + | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | |
#3 | Harvard College | 1 + | 9 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 32 |
#5 | Yale University | 1 + | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |
#6 | University of Pennsylvania | 1 + | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |
#7 | Duke University | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
#9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#9 | Brown University | 1 + | 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 19 |
#9 | Northwestern University | 1 + | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
#12 | University of Chicago | 1 + | 5 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 29 |
#12 | Columbia University | 1 + | 5 | 3 | 9 | ||
#12 | Cornell University | 1 + | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | |
#15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 | 1 | ||||
#15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 | 1 | ||||
#17 | Rice University | 1 + | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
#18 | Dartmouth College | 1 + | 5 | 4 | 6 | 16 | |
#18 | Vanderbilt University | 1 + | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
#20 | University of Notre Dame | 1 | 1 | ||||
#21 | University of Michigan | 1 + | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
#22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#22 | Georgetown University | 1 + | 6 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 26 |
#24 | University of Virginia | 1 + | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 13 |
#24 | Emory University | 1 + | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
#24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 + | 4 | 1 | 6 | ||
#24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 + | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | |
#28 | University of California: San Diego | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#28 | University of Southern California | 1 + | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
#33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
#35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 + | 1 | 2 | |||
#35 | New York University | 1 + | 5 | 7 | 9 | 22 | |
#39 | Boston College | 1 + | 4 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 22 |
#40 | Tufts University | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 15 | |
#43 | Boston University | 1 + | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
#47 | Lehigh University | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#47 | University of Rochester | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
#47 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 | 1 | ||||
#47 | Texas A&M University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#47 | Wake Forest University | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#51 | Purdue University | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#53 | College of William and Mary | 1 + | 3 | 4 | |||
#53 | Northeastern University | 1 + | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 14 |
#60 | Santa Clara University | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#60 | Brandeis University | 1 + | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
#67 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 | 1 | ||||
#67 | George Washington University | 1 + | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
#67 | Syracuse University | 1 + | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
#67 | Villanova University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 + | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
#67 | University of Miami | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
#73 | Tulane University | 1 + | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
#73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#76 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#89 | Fordham University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#89 | Southern Methodist University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#93 | University of Iowa | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#98 | Texas Christian University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#98 | Drexel University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 2 | 2 | ||||
#105 | American University | 1 + | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |
#115 | Howard University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#115 | University of New Hampshire | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#133 | Elon University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#133 | University of Vermont | 1 + | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | |
#142 | Clark University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#142 | Loyola University Chicago | 2 | 2 | ||||
#159 | University of Massachusetts Lowell | 1 | 1 | ||||
#163 | University of Mississippi | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#185 | Samford University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#249 | Suffolk University | 1 | 1 | ||||
Penn State University Park | 1 + | 1 | 2 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
All schools | 31 | 25 | 51 | 53 | 48 | ||
#1 | Williams College | 1 + | 3 | 4 | |||
#2 | Amherst College | 1 + | 3 | 6 | 3 | 13 | |
#4 | Wellesley College | 1 | 1 | ||||
#4 | Swarthmore College | 1 | 1 | ||||
#4 | Pomona College | 1 + | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
#7 | United States Air Force Academy | 1 | 1 | ||||
#9 | Bowdoin College | 1 + | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
#11 | Middlebury College | 1 + | 3 | 6 | 3 | 13 | |
#11 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#11 | Barnard College | 1 + | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | |
#11 | Wesleyan University | 1 + | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 16 |
#15 | United States Military Academy | 1 | 1 | ||||
#16 | Harvey Mudd College | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#16 | Smith College | 1 | 1 | ||||
#16 | Hamilton College | 1 + | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
#16 | Vassar College | 3 | 2 | 5 | |||
#16 | Davidson College | 2 | 2 | ||||
#21 | Haverford College | 1 + | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
#21 | Colgate University | 1 + | 1 | 2 | |||
#24 | Bates College | 1 + | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | |
#25 | Colby College | 1 + | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
#25 | University of Richmond | 1 + | 2 | 3 | |||
#27 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 + | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
#30 | Lafayette College | 2 | 2 | ||||
#30 | Bucknell University | 1 + | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
#30 | Bryn Mawr College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#33 | Colorado College | 1 + | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
#34 | Mount Holyoke College | 1 + | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||
#35 | Occidental College | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
#35 | Scripps College | 1 | 1 | ||||
#35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 + | 1 | 2 | |||
#38 | Skidmore College | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#39 | Kenyon College | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||
#39 | Trinity College | 1 + | 6 | 1 | 4 | 12 | |
#39 | Pitzer College | 1 + | 1 | 2 | |||
#39 | Denison University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#45 | Union College | 1 + | 1 | 2 | |||
#46 | Connecticut College | 1 + | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
#56 | Rhodes College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#56 | Wheaton College | 1 + | 1 | 2 | |||
#59 | St. Lawrence University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#63 | Gettysburg College | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#67 | Reed College | 1 + | 1 | 2 | |||
#73 | Lake Forest College | 1 | 1 | ||||
#75 | Lawrence University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#100 | Morehouse College | 1 | 1 | ||||
#112 | Bennington College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
Oberlin College | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
All schools | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
#1 | University of Toronto | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#3 | McGill University | 1 + | 1 | 2 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
All schools | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
#7 | University of Manchester | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#33 | University of St. Andrews | 1 + | 1 |
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United States Government and Politics
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Comparative Government and Politics
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Baseball
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Basketball
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Climbing
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Cross Country
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Field Hockey
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Floor Hockey
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Baseball
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Basketball
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Climbing
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Cross Country
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Field Hockey
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Floor Hockey
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American Football
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Golf
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Lacrosse
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Sailing
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Skiing
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Soccer
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Softball
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Squash
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Swimming
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Tennis
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Track and Field
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Volleyball
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Wrestling
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Architecture Club
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A/V (Audio/Visual) Club
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Arts Board
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Chess Club
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Film Club
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Fishing Club
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Architecture Club
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A/V (Audio/Visual) Club
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Arts Board
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Chess Club
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Film Club
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Fishing Club
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Hip-Hop Club
Improv Club
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Invest in Girls
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Math Club
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Model UN
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Programming Club
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Robotics Team
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Science and Engineering Club
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Speech and Debate Team
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Step Club
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Ballet
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Choreography
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Dance
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Directing
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Drama
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Improvisation
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Ballet
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Choreography
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Dance
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Directing
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Drama
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Improvisation
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Theater
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Ceramics
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Drawing
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Filmmaking
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Graphic Design
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Painting
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Photography
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Sculpture
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Architecture
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Costume Design
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Design
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