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 |
|---|---|---|
| #2 | Columbia University | 1 |
| #5 | Yale University | 1 |
| LAC #1 | Williams College | 1 |
| #13 | Dartmouth College | 1 |
| #14 | Brown University | 1 |
| #14 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 |
| #20 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 |
| #28 | New York University | 2 |
| LAC #6 | United States Naval Academy | 1 |
| #34 | University of California: San Diego | 1 |
| #36 | Boston College | 4 |
| #36 | University of California: Irvine | 1 |
| #38 | University of California: Davis | 1 |
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 |
| #42 | Boston University | 2 |
| #42 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 |
| LAC #9 | Carleton College | 1 |
| LAC #9 | Middlebury College | 1 |
| #49 | Northeastern University | 1 |
| #57 | Penn State University Park | 1 |
| #59 | Syracuse University | 2 |
| #59 | University of Maryland: College Park | 2 |
| #59 | University of Washington | 1 |
| #63 | George Washington University | 3 |
| #68 | Fordham University | 1 |
| #68 | Indiana University Bloomington | 2 |
| #68 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 2 |
| #83 | Howard University | 1 |
| LAC #17 | Colgate University | 1 |
| LAC #17 | Smith College | 1 |
| LAC #17 | Wesleyan University | 2 |
| #93 | University of Delaware | 2 |
| #103 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #103 | Temple University | 1 |
| #103 | University of California: Santa Cruz | 1 |
| #103 | University of South Florida | 1 |
| #104 | University of Colorado Boulder | 1 |
| #104 | University of Tennessee: Knoxville | 1 |
| LAC #22 | University of Richmond | 1 |
| LAC #36 | Oberlin College | 1 |
| LAC #38 | Bucknell University | 2 |
| LAC #38 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 |
| LAC #45 | Union College | 3 |
| Alabama State University | 1 | |
| Albertus Magnus College | 1 | |
| Barton College | 1 | |
| Bentley University | 2 | |
| Berklee College of Music | 1 | |
| Butler University | 1 | |
| City University of New York: Hunter College | 1 | |
| Drew University | 2 | |
| Emerson College | 1 | |
| Emmanuel College-Boston-MA | 1 | |
| Fairfield University | 1 | |
| Fitchburg State University | 1 | |
| Flagler College | 1 | |
| Florida Gulf Coast University | 1 | |
| Frostburg State University | 1 | |
| Hampshire College | 1 | |
| High Point University | 1 | |
| Le Moyne College | 1 | |
| Longwood University | 1 | |
| Marist College | 1 | |
| Merrimack College | 1 | |
| Morehouse College | 1 | |
| Mount Saint Mary College | 1 | |
| Nichols College | 1 | |
| Post University | 1 | |
| Providence College | 1 | |
| Quinnipiac University | 1 | |
| Rollins College | 1 | |
| Sacred Heart University | 4 | |
| School of the Art Institute of Chicago | 1 | |
| The New School College of Performing Arts | 1 | |
| University of Hartford | 1 | |
| University of Massachusetts Boston | 1 | |
| University of North Carolina at Wilmington | 1 | |
| University of Scranton | 2 | |
| University of Tampa | 1 | |
| University of Toronto | 1 | |
| Ursinus College | 1 |
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 55 | 56 | 60 | 58 | 46 | ||
| #3 | Stanford University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #5 | Yale University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #7 | Duke University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #9 | Brown University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #12 | University of Chicago | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #12 | Columbia University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #12 | Cornell University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #20 | University of Notre Dame | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #21 | University of Michigan | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #24 | University of Virginia | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #24 | Emory University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #28 | University of California: Davis | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #28 | University of California: San Diego | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | ||
| #33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #33 | University of California: Irvine | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #35 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #35 | New York University | 2 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 17 |
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Boston College | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| #40 | Tufts University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #40 | University of Washington | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #40 | Rutgers University | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #43 | Boston University | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | |
| #47 | Lehigh University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #47 | University of Rochester | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #47 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | |
| #49 | Purdue University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #53 | Northeastern University | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | |
| #53 | Florida State University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #53 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #57 | Penn State University Park | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #58 | University of Connecticut | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 13 | |
| #59 | University of Maryland: College Park | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #60 | Michigan State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #60 | Santa Clara University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #67 | Syracuse University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #67 | Villanova University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| #67 | George Washington University | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| #67 | University of Miami | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #73 | Tulane University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #76 | University of Delaware | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #76 | SUNY University at Buffalo | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #76 | Pepperdine University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #82 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #82 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: Newark Campus | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #82 | University of Illinois at Chicago | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #83 | University of California: Riverside | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #86 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #89 | Southern Methodist University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #89 | Fordham University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #89 | University of South Florida | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #89 | Temple University | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #93 | University of Iowa | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #93 | Baylor University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #93 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | Drexel University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #103 | University of California: Santa Cruz | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #105 | University of Tennessee: Knoxville | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #105 | American University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #105 | Arizona State University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #115 | University of New Hampshire | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #115 | Howard University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #124 | Fairfield University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #133 | SUNY University at Albany | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #133 | University of Vermont | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #133 | Elon University | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| #142 | University of the Pacific | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #142 | Clark University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #142 | Clarkson University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #151 | University of Rhode Island | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #163 | St. John's University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #170 | Quinnipiac University | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | ||
| #178 | Catholic University of America | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #185 | Hofstra University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #201 | The New School College of Performing Arts | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #201 | University of North Carolina at Wilmington | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #209 | Sacred Heart University | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | |
| #216 | Springfield College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #216 | University of Massachusetts Boston | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #236 | Belmont University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #249 | University of Maine | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #260 | University of New England | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #280 | Old Dominion University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #304 | Florida Gulf Coast University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #304 | Radford University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #304 | University of Hartford | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #304 | Western Michigan University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #361 | University of Montana | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Alabama State University | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 22 | 13 | 18 | 17 | 15 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #2 | Amherst College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #3 | United States Naval Academy | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #9 | Carleton College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #11 | Wesleyan University | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #11 | Middlebury College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #11 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Vassar College | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| #16 | Hamilton College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Smith College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #21 | Haverford College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #21 | United States Military Academy | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #21 | Colgate University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #24 | Bates College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #25 | University of Richmond | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #25 | Colby College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #27 | College of the Holy Cross | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #30 | Bryn Mawr College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #30 | Bucknell University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #30 | Lafayette College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | Occidental College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #36 | Oberlin College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #38 | Skidmore College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #39 | Trinity College | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #45 | Union College | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #46 | Connecticut College | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||
| #46 | Furman University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #56 | Rhodes College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #59 | St. Lawrence University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #59 | Wofford College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #63 | Gettysburg College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #70 | Muhlenberg College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #72 | Bard College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #75 | Lawrence University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #86 | Ursinus College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #86 | Stonehill College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #93 | Drew University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #100 | Earlham College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #100 | Morehouse College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #107 | Susquehanna University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #116 | Saint Michael's College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #139 | SUNY College at Purchase | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #139 | Hampshire College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #152 | Emmanuel College-Boston-MA | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #167 | The King's College | 1 | 1 | ||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #1 | University of Toronto | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #2 | University of British Columbia | 1 | 1 | ||||
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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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Golf
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Lacrosse
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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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Golf
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Soccer
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Softball
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Tennis
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Track and Field
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Volleyball
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Alpine Skiing
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Football
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Strength and Conditioning
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Swimming
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Chess Club
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Ich Dien Society
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Model United Nations
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Admission Ambassadors
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Art Club
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Citizenship Committee
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Chess Club
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Ich Dien Society
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Model United Nations
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Art Club
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Citizenship Committee
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Community Service Club
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Digital Photography Club
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Eco-Leaders
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Marketing & Communications Interns
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National Honor Society
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New England Math League
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Peer Counselors
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Prefects
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The Coleman Group
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The International Student Society
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Yearbook
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Cheshire Academy Through Sound
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Jazz Ensemble
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Piano Master Class
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Rock Band
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String Ensemble
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1794 A Cappella Singers
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Ski & Snowboarding Club
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Music Production
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