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 | 3 |
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2 |
| #3 | Harvard College | 8 |
| #3 | Stanford University | 4 |
| #3 | Yale University | 10 |
| LAC #1 | Williams College | 2 |
| #6 | University of Chicago | 6 |
| #7 | Johns Hopkins University | 4 |
| #7 | University of Pennsylvania | 5 |
| #10 | Duke University | 5 |
| #10 | Northwestern University | 12 |
| LAC #2 | Amherst College | 4 |
| #13 | Brown University | 19 |
| #13 | Vanderbilt University | 4 |
| #15 | Rice University | 2 |
| #15 | Washington University in St. Louis | 11 |
| LAC #3 | Pomona College | 3 |
| #17 | Cornell University | 5 |
| #18 | Columbia University | 9 |
| #20 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 |
| LAC #4 | Swarthmore College | 5 |
| #22 | Carnegie Mellon University | 9 |
| #22 | Emory University | 3 |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 3 |
| #25 | New York University | 12 |
| #25 | University of Southern California | 5 |
| #25 | University of Virginia | 2 |
| LAC #5 | Wellesley College | 1 |
| #29 | Wake Forest University | 3 |
| LAC #6 | Bowdoin College | 14 |
| LAC #6 | Carleton College | 2 |
| #32 | Tufts University | 18 |
| #32 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 |
| #34 | University of California: San Diego | 3 |
| #36 | Boston College | 3 |
| #36 | University of Rochester | 1 |
| #41 | Boston University | 3 |
| #44 | Brandeis University | 4 |
| #44 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 |
| #44 | Northeastern University | 13 |
| #44 | Tulane University | 5 |
| #51 | Lehigh University | 4 |
| #51 | Purdue University | 1 |
| #51 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 3 |
| #51 | Spelman College | 1 |
| #55 | University of Miami | 2 |
| #55 | University of Washington | 1 |
| LAC #11 | Middlebury College | 5 |
| #62 | George Washington University | 4 |
| #62 | Syracuse University | 1 |
| #62 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 |
| #63 | Lawrence University | 1 |
| #63 | St. Olaf College | 1 |
| LAC #13 | Smith College | 6 |
| LAC #13 | Vassar College | 4 |
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 3 |
| #67 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 4 |
| #72 | American University | 4 |
| #72 | Reed College | 3 |
| LAC #15 | Davidson College | 3 |
| LAC #15 | Grinnell College | 5 |
| LAC #15 | Hamilton College | 4 |
| #77 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 |
| SUNY University at Binghamton | 1 | |
| #85 | Lake Forest College | 1 |
| #89 | Howard University | 1 |
| LAC #18 | Barnard College | 8 |
| LAC #18 | Colgate University | 2 |
| LAC #18 | Haverford College | 12 |
| LAC #18 | University of Richmond | 5 |
| LAC #18 | Wesleyan University | 15 |
| #94 | Lewis & Clark College | 1 |
| #97 | Clark University | 1 |
| #105 | Drexel University | 2 |
| #105 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 2 |
| LAC #24 | Colby College | 9 |
| #121 | Chapman University | 3 |
| #121 | University of Vermont | 3 |
| LAC #25 | Bates College | 7 |
| #130 | Eckerd College | 1 |
| LAC #27 | Colorado College | 3 |
| LAC #27 | Macalester College | 3 |
| LAC #29 | Harvey Mudd College | 3 |
| #151 | Simmons University | 1 |
| LAC #31 | Bryn Mawr College | 2 |
| LAC #31 | Kenyon College | 9 |
| LAC #33 | College of the Holy Cross | 2 |
| LAC #33 | Pitzer College | 3 |
| LAC #33 | Scripps College | 2 |
| #176 | University of Massachusetts Lowell | 1 |
| LAC #36 | Mount Holyoke College | 2 |
| LAC #37 | Bucknell University | 3 |
| LAC #37 | Occidental College | 2 |
| LAC #39 | Lafayette College | 3 |
| LAC #39 | Skidmore College | 1 |
| LAC #39 | Trinity College | 1 |
| #202 | Florida Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #234 | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | 7 |
| LAC #48 | Whitman College | 1 |
| LAC #51 | Dickinson College | 2 |
| LAC #55 | Connecticut College | 9 |
| LAC #60 | Bard College | 1 |
| Art Center College of Design | 1 | |
| Babson College | 5 | |
| Berklee College of Music | 3 | |
| City University of New York: Baruch College | 1 | |
| College of Charleston | 1 | |
| Emerson College | 3 | |
| Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | |
| Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering | 1 | |
| Manhattanville College | 1 | |
| Montana State University: Billings | 1 | |
| Oberlin College | 9 | |
| Pratt Institute | 1 | |
| Rhode Island School of Design | 1 | |
| Savannah College of Art and Design | 1 | |
| Towson University | 1 | |
| Union College | 2 | |
| University of California: Santa Cruz | 1 | |
| University of Colorado Boulder | 1 | |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2 | |
| University of St. Andrews | 1 | |
| Wheaton College | 3 |
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| Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2016-2020 | 2015-2019 | Total |
| All schools | 255 | 252 | 256 | 239 | 223 | ||
| #1 | Princeton University | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 23 |
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 16 |
| #3 | Stanford University | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 18 |
| #3 | Harvard College | 8 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 37 |
| #5 | Yale University | 10 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 33 |
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 25 |
| #7 | Duke University | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 22 |
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 21 |
| #9 | Northwestern University | 12 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 54 |
| #9 | Brown University | 19 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 69 |
| #12 | University of Chicago | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 26 |
| #12 | Cornell University | 5 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 35 |
| #12 | Columbia University | 9 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 46 |
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
| #15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #17 | Rice University | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 21 |
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 5 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 26 | |
| #21 | University of Michigan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
| #24 | University of Virginia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 42 |
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 55 |
| #24 | Emory University | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | |
| #28 | University of Southern California | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 25 |
| #28 | University of California: San Diego | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | |
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #35 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #35 | New York University | 12 | 15 | 14 | 18 | 17 | 76 |
| #39 | Boston College | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
| #40 | Tufts University | 18 | 21 | 26 | 26 | 28 | 119 |
| #40 | University of Washington | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #43 | Boston University | 3 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 27 |
| #47 | University of Rochester | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
| #47 | Lehigh University | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | ||
| #48 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #51 | Purdue University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #53 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #53 | College of William and Mary | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #53 | Northeastern University | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 75 |
| #60 | Santa Clara University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #60 | Brandeis University | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 25 |
| #60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| #67 | Syracuse University | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 |
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 13 |
| #67 | University of Miami | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| #67 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #67 | George Washington University | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 23 |
| #73 | SUNY University at Binghamton | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #73 | Tulane University | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 18 |
| #82 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 22 |
| #82 | University of Illinois at Chicago | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #93 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| #98 | Drexel University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #105 | American University | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||
| #105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #115 | Howard University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #133 | Elon University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #133 | University of Vermont | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 19 |
| #133 | Chapman University | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
| #142 | Clark University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #151 | Simmons University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #159 | University of Massachusetts Lowell | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #209 | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | 7 | 7 | ||||
| #269 | Florida Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2 | 2 | |||||
| University of California: Santa Cruz | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2016-2020 | 2015-2019 | Total |
| All schools | 192 | 209 | 201 | 212 | 178 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 21 |
| #2 | Amherst College | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 21 |
| #4 | Pomona College | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 17 |
| #4 | Wellesley College | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 23 |
| #9 | Bowdoin College | 14 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 48 |
| #9 | Carleton College | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 14 | |
| #11 | Grinnell College | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 17 | |
| #11 | Barnard College | 8 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 53 |
| #11 | Middlebury College | 5 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 37 |
| #11 | Wesleyan University | 15 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 22 | 98 |
| #15 | United States Military Academy | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #16 | Smith College | 6 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 48 |
| #16 | Vassar College | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 13 |
| #16 | Hamilton College | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 19 |
| #16 | Harvey Mudd College | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 21 |
| #16 | Davidson College | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 21 |
| #21 | Colgate University | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| #21 | Haverford College | 12 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 34 |
| #21 | Washington and Lee University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #24 | Bates College | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 36 |
| #25 | Colby College | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 36 |
| #25 | University of Richmond | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |
| #27 | College of the Holy Cross | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 23 |
| #27 | Macalester College | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | |
| #30 | Bryn Mawr College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| #30 | Lafayette College | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| #30 | Bucknell University | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| #33 | Colorado College | 3 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 28 |
| #34 | Mount Holyoke College | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| #35 | Scripps College | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | |
| #35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #35 | Occidental College | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| #38 | Skidmore College | 1 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 39 |
| #39 | Hillsdale College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #39 | Trinity College | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| #39 | Pitzer College | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 22 |
| #39 | Spelman College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Kenyon College | 9 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 29 |
| #45 | Union College | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| #46 | Connecticut College | 9 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 38 |
| #46 | Dickinson College | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
| #46 | Whitman College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| #51 | St. Olaf College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #56 | Wheaton College | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | |
| #59 | St. Lawrence University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #67 | Reed College | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | |
| #70 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #72 | Bard College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #73 | Lake Forest College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #75 | Lawrence University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #89 | University of Puget Sound | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #93 | Lewis & Clark College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #100 | Sarah Lawrence College | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #116 | Ohio Wesleyan University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #130 | Eckerd College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #139 | Hampshire College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #167 | The King's College | 1 | 6 | 7 | |||
| #167 | Guilford College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Oberlin College | 9 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 39 | |
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| Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2016-2020 | 2015-2019 | Total |
| All schools | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #3 | McGill University | 1 | 1 | ||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2016-2020 | 2015-2019 | Total |
| All schools | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #5 | University of Edinburgh | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #33 | University of St. Andrews | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #44 | Loughborough University | 1 | 1 | ||||
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CA Political Union
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