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 | 6 |
#2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 |
#3 | Harvard College | 7 |
#3 | Stanford University | 26 |
#3 | Yale University | 10 |
LAC #1 | Williams College | 2 |
#6 | University of Chicago | 27 |
#7 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 |
#7 | University of Pennsylvania | 8 |
#9 | California Institute of Technology | 1 |
#10 | Duke University | 7 |
#10 | Northwestern University | 6 |
LAC #2 | Amherst College | 1 |
#12 | Dartmouth College | 6 |
#13 | Brown University | 12 |
#13 | Vanderbilt University | 5 |
#15 | Rice University | 1 |
#15 | Washington University in St. Louis | 5 |
LAC #3 | Pomona College | 5 |
#17 | Cornell University | 8 |
#18 | Columbia University | 9 |
#18 | University of Notre Dame | 1 |
#20 | University of California: Berkeley | 17 |
#20 | University of California: Los Angeles | 13 |
LAC #4 | Swarthmore College | 5 |
#22 | Carnegie Mellon University | 2 |
#22 | Emory University | 4 |
#22 | Georgetown University | 11 |
#25 | New York University | 1 |
#25 | University of Michigan | 4 |
#25 | University of Southern California | 4 |
#25 | University of Virginia | 2 |
LAC #5 | Wellesley College | 4 |
#29 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 |
#29 | Wake Forest University | 5 |
LAC #6 | Bowdoin College | 1 |
LAC #6 | Carleton College | 3 |
#32 | Tufts University | 19 |
#32 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 |
#34 | University of California: Irvine | 1 |
#34 | University of California: San Diego | 5 |
#36 | Boston College | 9 |
#38 | University of California: Davis | 5 |
#38 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 8 |
#41 | Boston University | 7 |
#44 | Brandeis University | 1 |
#44 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 |
#44 | Northeastern University | 5 |
#44 | Tulane University | 8 |
LAC #9 | Claremont McKenna College | 2 |
#51 | Lehigh University | 1 |
#51 | Purdue University | 1 |
#51 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 |
#51 | Villanova University | 1 |
#55 | Santa Clara University | 2 |
#55 | Trinity University | 1 |
#55 | University of Washington | 3 |
LAC #11 | Middlebury College | 3 |
#62 | George Washington University | 3 |
#62 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 |
#63 | St. Olaf College | 1 |
LAC #13 | Smith College | 3 |
LAC #13 | Vassar College | 5 |
#67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 |
#67 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 2 |
#72 | American University | 2 |
#72 | Fordham University | 3 |
#72 | Reed College | 3 |
#72 | Sarah Lawrence College | 1 |
#72 | Southern Methodist University | 6 |
LAC #15 | Davidson College | 1 |
LAC #15 | Hamilton College | 1 |
#77 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 |
#83 | Gonzaga University | 2 |
#83 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 1 |
#85 | University of Puget Sound | 1 |
#89 | Colorado School of Mines | 1 |
#89 | Howard University | 2 |
LAC #18 | Barnard College | 5 |
LAC #18 | Colgate University | 3 |
LAC #18 | Haverford College | 5 |
LAC #18 | University of Richmond | 3 |
LAC #18 | Wesleyan University | 8 |
#94 | Lewis & Clark College | 3 |
#97 | Clark University | 1 |
#97 | University of San Diego | 1 |
#105 | Drexel University | 2 |
#105 | University of Denver | 1 |
#105 | University of Oregon | 4 |
#105 | University of San Francisco | 2 |
#107 | Whittier College | 1 |
#115 | Loyola University Chicago | 2 |
LAC #24 | Colby College | 7 |
#121 | Chapman University | 3 |
#121 | University of Kansas | 1 |
#121 | University of Vermont | 1 |
LAC #25 | Bates College | 4 |
LAC #27 | Colorado College | 5 |
LAC #27 | Macalester College | 2 |
LAC #29 | Harvey Mudd College | 2 |
#151 | Colorado State University | 1 |
#151 | University of the Pacific | 1 |
LAC #31 | Bryn Mawr College | 1 |
LAC #31 | Kenyon College | 5 |
LAC #33 | Pitzer College | 6 |
LAC #33 | Scripps College | 3 |
#166 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | 1 |
LAC #37 | Bucknell University | 3 |
LAC #37 | Occidental College | 4 |
LAC #39 | Denison University | 1 |
LAC #39 | Lafayette College | 2 |
LAC #39 | Trinity College | 1 |
#234 | Pace University | 1 |
LAC #48 | Whitman College | 2 |
LAC #55 | Connecticut College | 1 |
Babson College | 2 | |
Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | |
Ithaca College | 1 | |
Leibniz Kolleg Universität Tüebingen | 1 | |
Linfield College | 1 | |
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and | 1 | |
McGill University | 2 | |
Oberlin College | 2 | |
Queen's University | 1 | |
Rhode Island School of Design | 1 | |
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | 1 | |
The New School College of Performing Arts | 3 | |
Union College | 1 | |
University of British Columbia | 1 | |
University of California: Merced | 1 | |
University of California: Riverside | 1 | |
University of California: Santa Cruz | 5 | |
University of Colorado Boulder | 3 | |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 | |
University of Maryland: College Park | 1 | |
University of Redlands | 1 | |
University of St. Andrews | 5 | |
University of Toronto | 1 | |
Wheaton College-Norton-MA | 1 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2015-2019 | 2014-2018 | Total |
All schools | 352 | 342 | 334 | 313 | 283 | ||
#1 | Princeton University | 6 | 5 | 4 | 8 admitted | 10 | 33 |
#2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 admitted | 5 | 15 |
#3 | Stanford University | 26 | 23 | 17 | 12 admitted | 11 | 89 |
#3 | Harvard College | 7 | 7 | 10 | 16 admitted | 16 | 56 |
#5 | Yale University | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 admitted | 12 | 58 |
#6 | University of Pennsylvania | 8 | 7 | 5 | 5 admitted | 6 | 31 |
#7 | Duke University | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 admitted | 6 | 38 |
#7 | California Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
#9 | Brown University | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 admitted | 7 | 54 |
#9 | Northwestern University | 6 | 8 | 8 | 10 admitted | 8 | 40 |
#9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 2 | 7 |
#12 | University of Chicago | 27 | 28 | 26 | 18 admitted | 11 | 110 |
#12 | Columbia University | 9 | 8 | 9 | 12 admitted | 9 | 47 |
#12 | Cornell University | 8 | 9 | 10 | 8 admitted | 7 | 42 |
#15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 13 | 14 | 15 | 12 admitted | 8 | 62 |
#15 | University of California: Berkeley | 17 | 17 | 17 | 15 admitted | 12 | 78 |
#17 | Rice University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#18 | Dartmouth College | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 admitted | 5 | 22 |
#18 | Vanderbilt University | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 admitted | 1 | 12 |
#20 | University of Notre Dame | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 3 | ||
#21 | University of Michigan | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 admitted | 3 | 17 |
#22 | Georgetown University | 11 | 11 | 8 | 6 admitted | 7 | 43 |
#22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 admitted | 6 | |
#24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 5 | 7 | 11 | 14 admitted | 15 | 52 |
#24 | University of Virginia | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | 9 |
#24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 admitted | 3 | 14 |
#24 | Emory University | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 admitted | 2 | 20 |
#28 | University of California: San Diego | 5 | 2 | 7 | |||
#28 | University of Southern California | 4 | 7 | 7 | 11 admitted | 13 | 42 |
#28 | University of California: Davis | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 admitted | 2 | 17 |
#33 | University of California: Irvine | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
#35 | New York University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 admitted | 19 | 37 |
#35 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 admitted | 4 | 11 |
#35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 8 | 9 | 7 | 2 admitted | 1 | 27 |
#39 | Boston College | 9 | 8 | 8 | 4 admitted | 4 | 33 |
#40 | Tufts University | 19 | 25 | 22 | 18 admitted | 16 | 100 |
#40 | University of Washington | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | ||
#43 | Boston University | 7 | 7 | 7 | 10 admitted | 10 | 41 |
#47 | Wake Forest University | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 | ||
#47 | Lehigh University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 5 |
#51 | Purdue University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#53 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 4 | |
#53 | Northeastern University | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 admitted | 3 | 24 |
#60 | Brandeis University | 1 | 1 | 3 admitted | 3 | 8 | |
#60 | Santa Clara University | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 admitted | 10 | |
#60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | |
#67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | |
#67 | George Washington University | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 admitted | 3 | 17 |
#67 | Villanova University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#67 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 | 1 | ||||
#67 | Syracuse University | 1 | 2 admitted | 3 | 6 | ||
#73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 2 | 2 | ||||
#73 | Tulane University | 8 | 5 | 8 | 8 admitted | 7 | 36 |
#76 | Colorado School of Mines | 1 | 1 | ||||
#76 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
#82 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 admitted | 1 | 9 |
#86 | Clemson University | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 4 | |
#89 | Fordham University | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 3 | 10 |
#89 | Southern Methodist University | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 admitted | 2 | 18 |
#93 | Gonzaga University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
#93 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
#98 | Drexel University | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 admitted | 7 | |
#98 | University of San Diego | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#98 | University of Oregon | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 admitted | 13 | |
#105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 admitted | 5 | 19 |
#105 | Arizona State University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
#105 | California State University: Long Beach | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
#105 | American University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
#115 | University of Arizona | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
#115 | University of San Francisco | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 admitted | 10 | |
#115 | Howard University | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
#124 | University of Denver | 1 | 1 | ||||
#133 | Chapman University | 3 | 3 | ||||
#133 | University of Vermont | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 admitted | 1 | 7 |
#142 | Loyola University Chicago | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
#142 | University of the Pacific | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 5 | |
#142 | Clark University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
#151 | University of Kansas | 1 | 1 | ||||
#151 | Colorado State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#170 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#178 | San Francisco State University | 1 | 2 | 3 admitted | 6 | ||
#201 | The New School College of Performing Arts | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | ||
#249 | Pace University | 1 | 1 | ||||
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 5 | |
University of Maryland: College Park | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
University of California: Riverside | 1 | 1 | |||||
University of California: Merced | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
University of California: Santa Cruz | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 admitted | 4 | 22 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2015-2019 | 2014-2018 | Total |
All schools | 126 | 130 | 140 | 160 | 152 | ||
#1 | Williams College | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 admitted | 5 | 22 |
#2 | Amherst College | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 admitted | 8 | 24 |
#4 | Pomona College | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 admitted | 4 | 19 |
#4 | Swarthmore College | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 admitted | 2 | 19 |
#4 | Wellesley College | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 admitted | 4 | 23 |
#9 | Bowdoin College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 4 | 9 |
#9 | Carleton College | 3 | 5 | 7 | 7 admitted | 7 | 29 |
#11 | Claremont McKenna College | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 admitted | 6 | 18 |
#11 | Wesleyan University | 8 | 9 | 7 | 6 admitted | 7 | 37 |
#11 | Barnard College | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 admitted | 3 | 20 |
#11 | Middlebury College | 3 | 5 | 7 | 6 admitted | 9 | 30 |
#16 | Harvey Mudd College | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
#16 | Vassar College | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 admitted | 5 | 29 |
#16 | Smith College | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 admitted | 2 | 11 |
#16 | Hamilton College | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | 5 | |
#16 | Davidson College | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 admitted | 4 | 18 |
#21 | Colgate University | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 admitted | 9 | 25 |
#21 | Washington and Lee University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#21 | Haverford College | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 admitted | 2 | 13 |
#24 | Bates College | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 admitted | 5 | 23 |
#25 | University of Richmond | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||
#25 | Colby College | 7 | 10 | 11 | 8 admitted | 9 | 45 |
#27 | Macalester College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 6 |
#30 | Lafayette College | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
#30 | Bucknell University | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | 8 |
#30 | Bryn Mawr College | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 admitted | 2 | 11 |
#33 | Colorado College | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 admitted | 1 | 15 |
#34 | Mount Holyoke College | 2 | 2 admitted | 2 | 6 | ||
#35 | Scripps College | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 admitted | 5 | 20 |
#35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#35 | Occidental College | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 admitted | 5 | 20 |
#38 | Skidmore College | 2 admitted | 3 | 5 | |||
#39 | Denison University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#39 | Trinity College | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 admitted | 4 | 14 |
#39 | Pitzer College | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 admitted | 4 | 28 |
#39 | Kenyon College | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 admitted | 4 | 21 |
#45 | Union College | 1 | 1 | ||||
#46 | Dickinson College | 1 admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
#46 | Connecticut College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 admitted | 4 | 11 |
#46 | Whitman College | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 admitted | 7 | 21 |
#51 | St. Olaf College | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 admitted | 8 | |
#56 | Wheaton College | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
#59 | Trinity University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | |
#67 | Reed College | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 admitted | 11 | |
#70 | Muhlenberg College | 2 admitted | 2 | ||||
#75 | Wheaton College-Norton-MA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | |
#89 | University of Puget Sound | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 admitted | 12 | |
#93 | Whittier College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#93 | Lewis & Clark College | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 admitted | 11 | |
#100 | Sarah Lawrence College | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 4 | ||
#107 | Linfield College | 1 | 1 | ||||
Oberlin College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 admitted | 7 | 16 |
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Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2015-2019 | 2014-2018 | Total |
All schools | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | ||
#1 | University of Toronto | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#2 | University of British Columbia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#3 | McGill University | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 admitted | 7 | |
#16 | Queen's University | 1 | 1 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2015-2019 | 2014-2018 | Total |
All schools | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
#33 | University of St. Andrews | 5 | 3 | 8 |
Art History
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Calculus AB
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Computer Science A
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Environmental Science
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European History
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French Language and Culture
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Art History
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Calculus AB
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Computer Science A
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Environmental Science
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European History
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French Language and Culture
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Music Theory
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Statistics
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Studio Art: Drawing
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Calculus BC
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Studio Art: 2-D Design
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Studio Art: 3-D Design
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Badminton
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Baseball
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Basketball
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Cross Country
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Fencing
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Field Hockey
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Badminton
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Baseball
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Basketball
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Cross Country
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Fencing
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Field Hockey
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Flag Football
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Golf
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Lacrosse
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Sailing
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Soccer
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Softball
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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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Astronomy Club
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French Club
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South Asian Club
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Koach: Jewish Affinity Group
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Mindfulness Mondays
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MENA
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Astronomy Club
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French Club
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South Asian Club
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Koach: Jewish Affinity Group
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Mindfulness Mondays
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MENA
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Committee on Sustainability
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Interfaith Club
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Spectra
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VOX: Literary and Arts Publication
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Writing Club
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Satonics
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Sunrise SFUHS
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Women's Health Club
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1st Gen American/Immigrant Club
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Surf Club
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Students for Women's Eqality + Rights (SWEAR)
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Baking Club
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Sports Analytics
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Conservative Club
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Financial Aid & Socio-Economic Status
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Society of Women Engineers
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University business club
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Jewelry Club
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Investing Club
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Students in Medical Research Club
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Council of Honor Integrity (CHI)
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Unicef clubs
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Latine Club
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University Pickleball Club
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maker club
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Board Game Club
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Diplomacy Club
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Yearbook Club
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Finance Club
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Understanding Whiteness
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Mental Health Association
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Art club
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BioMed Club
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Magic: The Gathering Club
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Multiracial Club
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Debate Club
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Trader Joe's Club
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Girls Who Invest
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Body Peace
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MODEL UN
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Bachelor
Club
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Eastern Medicine Club
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Red Cross Club
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Decorators Club
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Taylor Swift Club
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Winter Sports Club
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Chess Club
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Freestyle Club
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Kiva club
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Men’s group
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Survivor Club
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Acting
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Chamber Orchestra
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Choir
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Jazz
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Music
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Music Theory
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Acting
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Chamber Orchestra
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Choir
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Jazz
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Music
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Music Theory
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Songwriting
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Theater
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Vocal
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Art History
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Ceramics
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Drawing
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Oil Painting
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Painting
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Photography
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Pottery
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Studio Art
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