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.
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| #1 | Princeton University | 13 |
| #2 | Columbia University | 40 |
| #2 | Harvard College | 20 |
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 8 |
| #5 | Yale University | 41 |
| LAC #1 | Williams College | 9 |
| #6 | Stanford University | 14 |
| #6 | University of Chicago | 46 |
| #8 | University of Pennsylvania | 25 |
| #9 | Duke University | 9 |
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 6 |
| #9 | Northwestern University | 12 |
| LAC #2 | Amherst College | 14 |
| #13 | Dartmouth College | 17 |
| #14 | Brown University | 26 |
| #14 | Vanderbilt University | 9 |
| #14 | Washington University in St. Louis | 16 |
| LAC #3 | Swarthmore College | 6 |
| #17 | Cornell University | 30 |
| #20 | University of California: Los Angeles | 5 |
| LAC #4 | Pomona College | 4 |
| #21 | Emory University | 10 |
| #22 | University of California: Berkeley | 13 |
| #23 | Georgetown University | 31 |
| #23 | University of Michigan | 12 |
| #25 | Carnegie Mellon University | 10 |
| #25 | University of Virginia | 6 |
| LAC #5 | Wellesley College | 9 |
| #27 | University of Southern California | 12 |
| #28 | New York University | 54 |
| #28 | Tufts University | 14 |
| #28 | University of Florida | 3 |
| #28 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 3 |
| #28 | Wake Forest University | 5 |
| LAC #6 | Bowdoin College | 5 |
| LAC #6 | United States Naval Academy | 3 |
| #34 | University of California: San Diego | 4 |
| #36 | Boston College | 23 |
| #36 | University of California: Irvine | 3 |
| #38 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 3 |
| LAC #8 | Claremont McKenna College | 8 |
| #42 | Boston University | 18 |
| #42 | Case Western Reserve University | 4 |
| #42 | Tulane University | 18 |
| #42 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 4 |
| LAC #9 | Carleton College | 4 |
| LAC #9 | Middlebury College | 13 |
| #47 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 3 |
| #49 | Lehigh University | 3 |
| #49 | Northeastern University | 30 |
| #49 | Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 3 |
| #49 | Purdue University | 5 |
| #49 | Villanova University | 4 |
| #55 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 3 |
| #55 | University of Miami | 5 |
| LAC #11 | United States Military Academy | 4 |
| LAC #11 | Washington and Lee University | 3 |
| #59 | Syracuse University | 5 |
| #63 | George Washington University | 9 |
| #63 | St. Olaf College | 3 |
| #63 | University of Connecticut | 12 |
| #63 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 3 |
| LAC #13 | Davidson College | 3 |
| LAC #13 | Hamilton College | 7 |
| #68 | Fordham University | 7 |
| #68 | Indiana University Bloomington | 3 |
| #68 | Southern Methodist University | 8 |
| #68 | St. Lawrence University | 5 |
| #72 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 5 |
| #79 | American University | 3 |
| LAC #16 | Haverford College | 5 |
| LAC #17 | Barnard College | 14 |
| LAC #17 | Colby College | 11 |
| LAC #17 | Colgate University | 8 |
| LAC #17 | Wesleyan University | 14 |
| #104 | University of Colorado Boulder | 5 |
| LAC #22 | University of Richmond | 4 |
| #117 | University of Vermont | 9 |
| LAC #25 | Bates College | 7 |
| LAC #26 | Colorado College | 12 |
| LAC #28 | Harvey Mudd College | 4 |
| LAC #30 | Scripps College | 3 |
| LAC #35 | College of the Holy Cross | 6 |
| LAC #35 | Pitzer College | 5 |
| LAC #36 | Oberlin College | 4 |
| LAC #38 | Bucknell University | 7 |
| LAC #38 | Lafayette College | 9 |
| LAC #38 | Skidmore College | 10 |
| LAC #46 | Trinity College | 12 |
| LAC #50 | Connecticut College | 3 |
| LAC #61 | Gettysburg College | 3 |
| Babson College | 9 | |
| binghamton university, state university of new york | 3 | |
| Loyola University Maryland | 3 | |
| Merrimack College | 3 | |
| Providence College | 3 | |
| Rhode Island School of Design | 3 |
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2021 | 2016-2020 | 2015-2019 | Total |
| All schools | 707 | 729 | 57 | 708 | 707 | ||
| #1 | Princeton University | 13 | 14 | 1 + | 13 | 11 | 52 |
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 8 | 6 | 1 + | 6 | 5 | 26 |
| #3 | Harvard College | 20 | 21 | 1 + | 27 | 28 | 97 |
| #3 | Stanford University | 14 | 15 | 1 + | 10 | 12 | 52 |
| #5 | Yale University | 41 | 49 | 1 + | 53 | 56 | 200 |
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 25 | 32 | 1 + | 28 | 27 | 113 |
| #7 | Duke University | 9 | 9 | 14 | 14 | 46 | |
| #7 | California Institute of Technology | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #9 | Brown University | 26 | 29 | 1 + | 29 | 25 | 110 |
| #9 | Northwestern University | 12 | 12 | 1 + | 9 | 8 | 42 |
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 6 | 7 | 1 + | 10 | 9 | 33 |
| #12 | Cornell University | 30 | 24 | 1 + | 23 | 29 | 107 |
| #12 | University of Chicago | 46 | 47 | 1 + | 39 | 38 | 171 |
| #12 | Columbia University | 40 | 46 | 1 + | 41 | 37 | 165 |
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 5 | 3 | 1 + | 5 | 3 | 17 |
| #15 | University of California: Berkeley | 13 | 9 | 1 + | 7 | 8 | 38 |
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 17 | 16 | 1 + | 21 | 19 | 74 |
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 9 | 6 | 1 + | 5 | 4 | 25 |
| #20 | University of Notre Dame | 7 | 7 | 14 | |||
| #21 | University of Michigan | 12 | 11 | 1 + | 16 | 22 | 62 |
| #22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #22 | Georgetown University | 31 | 30 | 1 + | 26 | 19 | 107 |
| #24 | University of Virginia | 6 | 9 | 1 + | 5 | 5 | 26 |
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 10 | 9 | 1 + | 11 | 15 | 46 |
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 16 | 16 | 1 + | 15 | 16 | 64 |
| #24 | Emory University | 10 | 9 | 1 + | 7 | 6 | 33 |
| #28 | University of California: San Diego | 4 | 3 | 1 + | 8 | ||
| #28 | University of Southern California | 12 | 16 | 1 + | 17 | 20 | 66 |
| #28 | University of California: Davis | 1 + | 1 | ||||
| #28 | University of Florida | 3 | 1 + | 4 | |||
| #33 | University of California: Irvine | 3 | 3 | 6 | |||
| #33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 15 | |
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 4 | 3 | 1 + | 8 | ||
| #35 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 + | 1 | ||||
| #35 | New York University | 54 | 51 | 1 + | 47 | 46 | 199 |
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 + | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Boston College | 23 | 25 | 1 + | 35 | 40 | 124 |
| #40 | Tufts University | 14 | 16 | 1 + | 16 | 18 | 65 |
| #40 | University of Washington | 1 + | 1 | ||||
| #43 | Boston University | 18 | 18 | 1 + | 15 | 13 | 65 |
| #47 | Lehigh University | 3 | 1 + | 4 | |||
| #47 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 3 | 3 | 1 + | 7 | ||
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 5 | 5 | 1 + | 3 | 14 | |
| #49 | Purdue University | 5 | 4 | 1 + | 10 | ||
| #49 | Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | ||
| #53 | Northeastern University | 30 | 28 | 1 + | 20 | 14 | 93 |
| #53 | Case Western Reserve University | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | |
| #58 | University of Connecticut | 12 | 15 | 1 + | 14 | 16 | 58 |
| #58 | SUNY University at Stony Brook | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #59 | University of Maryland: College Park | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | ||
| #60 | Santa Clara University | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | ||
| #60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 3 | 4 | 1 + | 6 | 6 | 20 |
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 + | 1 | ||||
| #67 | University of Miami | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 19 | |
| #67 | George Washington University | 9 | 14 | 1 + | 22 | 23 | 69 |
| #67 | Villanova University | 4 | 3 | 7 | |||
| #67 | Syracuse University | 5 | 9 | 1 + | 13 | 13 | 41 |
| #73 | SUNY University at Binghamton | 4 | 1 + | 5 | |||
| #73 | Tulane University | 18 | 15 | 1 + | 13 | 7 | 54 |
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 3 | 3 | 1 + | 7 | ||
| #76 | Pepperdine University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
| #82 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 3 | 1 + | 4 | |||
| #89 | Fordham University | 7 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 31 | |
| #89 | Southern Methodist University | 8 | 8 | 1 + | 7 | 6 | 30 |
| #93 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
| #98 | Drexel University | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #105 | American University | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 17 | |
| #105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 5 | 6 | 1 + | 6 | 7 | 25 |
| #115 | University of San Francisco | 1 + | 1 | ||||
| #115 | Howard University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
| #133 | Elon University | 4 | 4 | ||||
| #133 | University of Vermont | 9 | 8 | 1 + | 7 | 7 | 32 |
| #133 | Chapman University | 3 | 1 + | 3 | 7 | ||
| #170 | Quinnipiac University | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #176 | University of Saint Joseph | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #185 | Hofstra University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2021 | 2016-2020 | 2015-2019 | Total |
| All schools | 246 | 252 | 28 | 282 | 333 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 9 | 9 | 1 + | 16 | 19 | 54 |
| #2 | Amherst College | 14 | 17 | 1 + | 19 | 19 | 70 |
| #3 | United States Naval Academy | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | |
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 6 | 4 | 1 + | 3 | 4 | 18 |
| #4 | Pomona College | 4 | 5 | 1 + | 7 | 10 | 27 |
| #4 | Wellesley College | 9 | 10 | 1 + | 8 | 9 | 37 |
| #9 | Bowdoin College | 5 | 6 | 1 + | 7 | 8 | 27 |
| #9 | Carleton College | 4 | 3 | 1 + | 3 | 3 | 14 |
| #11 | United States Military Academy | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | ||
| #11 | Claremont McKenna College | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 31 | |
| #11 | Wesleyan University | 14 | 10 | 1 + | 6 | 8 | 39 |
| #11 | Middlebury College | 13 | 12 | 1 + | 1 | 24 | 51 |
| #11 | Barnard College | 14 | 14 | 1 + | 15 | 13 | 57 |
| #16 | Smith College | 3 | 3 | 6 | |||
| #16 | Davidson College | 3 | 3 | 1 + | 7 | ||
| #16 | Hamilton College | 7 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 35 | |
| #16 | Harvey Mudd College | 4 | 4 | 1 + | 3 | 12 | |
| #16 | Vassar College | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | ||
| #21 | Haverford College | 5 | 4 | 1 + | 10 | ||
| #21 | Colgate University | 8 | 12 | 1 + | 16 | 13 | 50 |
| #21 | Washington and Lee University | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | ||
| #24 | Bates College | 7 | 9 | 1 + | 18 | 21 | 56 |
| #25 | Colby College | 11 | 14 | 1 + | 12 | 13 | 51 |
| #25 | University of Richmond | 4 | 4 | 1 + | 4 | 13 | |
| #27 | Macalester College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
| #27 | College of the Holy Cross | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 27 | |
| #30 | Lafayette College | 9 | 8 | 14 | 14 | 45 | |
| #30 | Bucknell University | 7 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 32 | |
| #33 | Colorado College | 12 | 10 | 1 + | 6 | 5 | 34 |
| #35 | Occidental College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
| #35 | Scripps College | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 19 | |
| #35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #36 | Oberlin College | 4 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 23 | |
| #38 | Skidmore College | 10 | 8 | 1 + | 8 | 7 | 34 |
| #39 | Trinity College | 12 | 10 | 1 + | 9 | 9 | 41 |
| #39 | Denison University | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | ||
| #39 | Pitzer College | 5 | 6 | 1 + | 7 | 7 | 26 |
| #39 | Kenyon College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
| #45 | Union College | 5 | 6 | 11 | |||
| #46 | Dickinson College | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | ||
| #46 | Connecticut College | 3 | 5 | 1 + | 7 | 8 | 24 |
| #51 | St. Olaf College | 3 | 1 + | 4 | |||
| #59 | St. Lawrence University | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 | ||
| #63 | Gettysburg College | 3 | 3 | 1 + | 5 | 5 | 17 |
| #67 | Reed College | 4 | 5 | 9 | |||
| #70 | Kalamazoo College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
| #70 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 24 | |
| #70 | Muhlenberg College | 3 | 5 | 8 | |||
| #72 | Bard College | 5 | 5 | 10 | |||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2021 | 2016-2020 | 2015-2019 | Total |
| All schools | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | ||
| #1 | University of Toronto | 4 | 1 + | 5 | |||
| #3 | McGill University | 3 | 3 | ||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2021 | 2016-2020 | 2015-2019 | Total |
| All schools | 0 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #1 | University of Oxford | 5 | 5 | ||||
| #5 | University of Edinburgh | 4 | 4 | ||||
| #33 | University of St. Andrews | 19 | 19 | ||||
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Girl Up Choate
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Voices Magazine
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Choate Mock Trial
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Choate Music Through Technology
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Choate Quiz Bowl
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Choate Self Defense
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