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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| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 |
| LAC #1 | Williams College | 2 |
| #6 | University of Chicago | 2 |
| #9 | Northwestern University | 1 |
| LAC #2 | Amherst College | 2 |
| #13 | Dartmouth College | 2 |
| #14 | Brown University | 1 |
| #22 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 |
| #23 | Georgetown University | 1 |
| #23 | University of Michigan | 1 |
| #27 | University of Southern California | 2 |
| #28 | New York University | 3 |
| #34 | University of California: San Diego | 1 |
| #36 | Boston College | 3 |
| #38 | University of California: Davis | 1 |
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 |
| #42 | Boston University | 2 |
| #42 | Tulane University | 3 |
| #42 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2 |
| LAC #9 | Middlebury College | 1 |
| #48 | University of Georgia | 1 |
| #49 | Lehigh University | 1 |
| #49 | Northeastern University | 3 |
| #49 | Purdue University | 1 |
| #49 | Villanova University | 1 |
| #55 | University of Miami | 1 |
| #57 | Penn State University Park | 1 |
| #59 | University of Maryland: College Park | 1 |
| #63 | George Washington University | 1 |
| LAC #13 | Grinnell College | 1 |
| #68 | Indiana University Bloomington | 2 |
| #68 | Southern Methodist University | 4 |
| #68 | St. Lawrence University | 1 |
| #72 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 1 |
| #75 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 |
| #83 | Elon University | 2 |
| #83 | Texas Christian University | 1 |
| #85 | Lake Forest College | 1 |
| LAC #17 | Barnard College | 1 |
| LAC #17 | Colby College | 3 |
| LAC #17 | Colgate University | 2 |
| LAC #17 | Wesleyan University | 1 |
| #93 | University of Delaware | 1 |
| #93 | University of Denver | 1 |
| #93 | University of San Diego | 1 |
| Auburn University | 1 | |
| #99 | University of Oregon | 1 |
| #104 | University of Colorado Boulder | 4 |
| LAC #22 | University of Richmond | 3 |
| LAC #22 | Vassar College | 1 |
| #111 | Drew University | 1 |
| #117 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #117 | University of Vermont | 1 |
| #122 | Chapman University | 1 |
| LAC #25 | Bates College | 1 |
| LAC #26 | Colorado College | 1 |
| #136 | SUNY College at Purchase | 1 |
| #148 | San Diego State University | 2 |
| LAC #30 | Kenyon College | 1 |
| LAC #38 | Bucknell University | 4 |
| LAC #38 | Lafayette College | 1 |
| LAC #38 | Skidmore College | 1 |
| #194 | Chatham University | 1 |
| LAC #45 | Union College | 2 |
| LAC #46 | Trinity College | 2 |
| LAC #61 | Gettysburg College | 1 |
| American University of Paris | 1 | |
| Assumption College | 1 | |
| Berklee College of Music | 1 | |
| California Polytechnic State University: San Luis Obispo | 1 | |
| Emerson College | 1 | |
| Emmanuel College-Boston-MA | 1 | |
| Endicott College | 1 | |
| Ithaca College | 1 | |
| Pratt Institute | 1 | |
| Siena College | 1 | |
| University of St. Andrews | 1 |
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 64 | 68 | 65 | 48 | 55 | ||
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #5 | Yale University | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | ||
| #7 | Duke University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #9 | Brown University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #9 | Northwestern University | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #12 | University of Chicago | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #12 | Columbia University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #12 | Cornell University | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | |
| #15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| #20 | University of Notre Dame | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #21 | University of Michigan | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #22 | Georgetown University | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #24 | University of Virginia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | |
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #24 | Emory University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #28 | University of California: Davis | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #28 | University of California: San Diego | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
| #28 | University of Southern California | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #33 | University of California: Irvine | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #35 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | New York University | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #39 | Boston College | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| #40 | Rutgers University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #40 | Tufts University | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #43 | Boston University | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | |
| #47 | University of Rochester | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #47 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #47 | Lehigh University | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| #47 | University of Georgia | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #49 | Purdue University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #53 | University of Minnesota: Twin Cities | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #53 | Northeastern University | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 18 |
| #57 | Penn State University Park | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #58 | University of Connecticut | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #59 | University of Maryland: College Park | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #60 | Santa Clara University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #67 | Syracuse University | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
| #67 | University of Miami | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| #67 | Villanova University | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | |
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #67 | George Washington University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #73 | Tulane University | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| #76 | University of Delaware | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #89 | Fordham University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #89 | Southern Methodist University | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | |
| #93 | Auburn University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #93 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #98 | University of Oregon | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | University of San Diego | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | Texas Christian University | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #98 | Drexel University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #105 | American University | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #105 | San Diego State University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | |
| #115 | Howard University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #124 | University of South Carolina: Columbia | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #124 | University of Denver | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 17 |
| #124 | James Madison University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | Elon University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
| #133 | Miami University: Oxford | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #133 | SUNY University at Albany | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | University of Vermont | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| #133 | Chapman University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #137 | University of Alabama | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #142 | Clarkson University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #142 | Clark University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #159 | University of Kentucky | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #163 | St. John's University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #178 | Catholic University of America | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #185 | University of Detroit Mercy | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #201 | The New School College of Performing Arts | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #209 | Chatham University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #236 | Western New England University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #236 | Belmont University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #303 | Montana State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 37 | 35 | 40 | 48 | 28 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| #2 | Amherst College | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #7 | United States Air Force Academy | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #9 | Bowdoin College | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | ||
| #11 | Grinnell College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #11 | Barnard College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #11 | Middlebury College | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | ||
| #11 | Wesleyan University | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| #16 | Vassar College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Davidson College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Hamilton College | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #21 | Colgate University | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| #21 | Washington and Lee University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #24 | Bates College | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | ||
| #25 | University of Richmond | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| #25 | Colby College | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| #27 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #30 | Lafayette College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #30 | Bucknell University | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 15 |
| #33 | Colorado College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #34 | Mount Holyoke College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | Occidental College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #38 | Skidmore College | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| #39 | Pitzer College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #39 | Denison University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #39 | Trinity College | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 15 |
| #39 | Kenyon College | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #45 | Union College | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #46 | Dickinson College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #46 | Connecticut College | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #51 | The University of the South | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #56 | Wheaton College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #59 | St. Lawrence University | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | |
| #63 | Gettysburg College | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #70 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #72 | Bard College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #73 | Lake Forest College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #86 | Stonehill College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #93 | Drew University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #107 | Susquehanna University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #112 | Bennington College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #116 | Ohio Wesleyan University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #139 | SUNY College at Purchase | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #152 | Emmanuel College-Boston-MA | 1 | 1 | ||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #33 | University of St. Andrews | 1 | 1 | ||||
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Calculus AB
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Calculus BC
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Environmental Science
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French Language and Culture
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Spanish Language and Culture
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Biology
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Calculus AB
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Calculus BC
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Environmental Science
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French Language and Culture
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Spanish Language and Culture
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Studio Art: 2-D Design
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Studio Art: 3-D Design
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Chemistry
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English Language and Composition
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English Literature and Composition
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Statistics
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United States History
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Comparative Government and Politics
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Computer Science A
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United States Government and Politics
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Physics C: Mechanics
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Baseball
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Basketball
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Crew
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Cross Country
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Field Hockey
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American Football
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Baseball
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Basketball
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Crew
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Cross Country
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Field Hockey
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American Football
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Golf
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Ice Hockey
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Lacrosse
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Mountain Biking
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Skiing
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Soccer
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Squash
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Tennis
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Track and Field
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Volleyball
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1907 Society
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Beatles Club
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Berkshire Aviators
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Business and Entrepreneurship Club
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Chess Club
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Creative Arts Club
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1907 Society
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Beatles Club
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Berkshire Aviators
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Business and Entrepreneurship Club
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Chess Club
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Creative Arts Club
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Dog Walking Club
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Environmental Action Club
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French Club
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Games Club
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GSA (Gender and Sexuality Alliance)
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Gender Equity Club
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Giordano Book Club
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Giordano Philosophy Club
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Harry Styles Club
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Investment Club
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Islamic Culture Club
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Japanese Club
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Jewish Club
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Karaoke Club
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Kindness Club
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Kitchen Club
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The LD (Learning Differences) Alliance Club
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Model UNMath Club
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Neuroscience and Mental Awareness Club
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Operation Smile
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Outing Club
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Ping Pong Club
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Poetry Club
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Robotics Club
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Sailing Club
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Self Love Club
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Slam Poetry Club
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Stock and Crypto Club
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True Crime Club
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WBSL - Berkshire School’s Radio Station
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Young Republicans Club
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Chamber Choir
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Chorus
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Improvisation
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Jazz
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Music Theory
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Vocal
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Chamber Choir
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Chorus
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Improvisation
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Jazz
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Music Theory
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Vocal
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2D Design
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3D Design
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Ceramics
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Digital Art
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Digital Music
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