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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| #3 | Harvard College | 3 |
| #3 | Yale University | 2 |
| #6 | University of Chicago | 6 |
| #10 | Northwestern University | 2 |
| LAC #2 | Amherst College | 1 |
| #12 | Dartmouth College | 3 |
| #13 | Brown University | 4 |
| #17 | Cornell University | 2 |
| #18 | Columbia University | 1 |
| #18 | University of Notre Dame | 1 |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 2 |
| #25 | University of Michigan | 2 |
| #25 | University of Southern California | 2 |
| #29 | Wake Forest University | 1 |
| LAC #6 | Bowdoin College | 2 |
| #32 | Tufts University | 1 |
| #34 | University of California: San Diego | 1 |
| #36 | Boston College | 5 |
| #38 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 |
| #41 | Boston University | 1 |
| #44 | Brandeis University | 1 |
| #44 | Northeastern University | 2 |
| #44 | Tulane University | 1 |
| #51 | Lehigh University | 1 |
| LAC #11 | Middlebury College | 3 |
| #62 | George Washington University | 1 |
| #62 | Syracuse University | 5 |
| #67 | University of Connecticut | 1 |
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 |
| #72 | American University | 1 |
| #72 | Southern Methodist University | 1 |
| LAC #15 | Hamilton College | 3 |
| #89 | Elon University | 1 |
| LAC #18 | Colgate University | 2 |
| LAC #18 | University of Richmond | 4 |
| LAC #18 | Wesleyan University | 2 |
| #97 | Clark University | 1 |
| #115 | Fairfield University | 1 |
| LAC #24 | Colby College | 3 |
| LAC #25 | Bates College | 1 |
| LAC #27 | Colorado College | 2 |
| #137 | University of Alabama | 1 |
| LAC #31 | Kenyon College | 1 |
| LAC #33 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 |
| LAC #36 | Mount Holyoke College | 1 |
| LAC #37 | Bucknell University | 1 |
| LAC #39 | Denison University | 1 |
| LAC #39 | Lafayette College | 3 |
| LAC #39 | Trinity College | 3 |
| #234 | Suffolk University | 1 |
| #250 | Central Michigan University | 1 |
| LAC #51 | Dickinson College | 3 |
| LAC #51 | The University of the South | 1 |
| LAC #55 | Connecticut College | 1 |
| Bryant University | 2 | |
| Providence College | 1 | |
| Rutgers University | 2 | |
| The New School College of Performing Arts | 1 | |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 | |
| University of Toronto | 1 | |
| Wentworth Institute of Technology | 1 |
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 65 | 61 | 60 | 67 | 53 | ||
| #1 | Princeton University | 1 admitted | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #3 | Harvard College | 3 | 5 admitted | 3 | 3 | 4 | 18 |
| #3 | Stanford University | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #5 | Yale University | 2 | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 1 admitted | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | |
| #7 | Duke University | 1 admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #9 | Brown University | 4 | 3 admitted | 1 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| #9 | Northwestern University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #12 | Columbia University | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| #12 | Cornell University | 2 | 2 admitted | 1 | 5 | ||
| #12 | University of Chicago | 6 | 4 admitted | 6 | 3 | 3 | 22 |
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #17 | Rice University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 1 admitted | 2 | 3 | |||
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | |
| #20 | University of Notre Dame | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #21 | University of Michigan | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #22 | Georgetown University | 2 | 4 admitted | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 |
| #22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #24 | University of Virginia | 4 | 4 | 8 | |||
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #28 | University of Southern California | 2 | 1 admitted | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
| #28 | University of California: San Diego | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | New York University | 4 admitted | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | |
| #39 | Boston College | 5 | 3 admitted | 4 | 7 | 2 | 21 |
| #40 | Tufts University | 1 | 2 admitted | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| #40 | Rutgers University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #43 | Boston University | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #47 | Lehigh University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #47 | Texas A&M University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| #49 | Purdue University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #53 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #53 | Florida State University | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #53 | Northeastern University | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
| #58 | University of Connecticut | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #60 | Brandeis University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #67 | University of Miami | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #67 | Syracuse University | 5 | 3 admitted | 1 | 9 | ||
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #67 | George Washington University | 1 | 2 admitted | 1 | 4 | ||
| #67 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #73 | Tulane University | 1 | 2 admitted | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #82 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #86 | Marquette University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #89 | University of South Florida | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #89 | Fordham University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #89 | Southern Methodist University | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | 6 | ||
| #93 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | University of San Diego | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | Drexel University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #98 | Texas Christian University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #103 | University of California: Santa Cruz | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #105 | University of Tennessee: Knoxville | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #105 | American University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #115 | University of Arizona | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #124 | Fairfield University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | Elon University | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #133 | University of Vermont | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | Chapman University | 3 admitted | 3 | ||||
| #137 | University of Alabama | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #142 | Clarkson University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #142 | Clark University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #159 | University of Massachusetts Lowell | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #201 | The New School College of Performing Arts | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #249 | University of Maine | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #249 | Suffolk University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #260 | Central Michigan University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #260 | University of New England | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 | 1 | |||||
| University of Maryland: College Park | 2 admitted | 2 | |||||
| National-Louis University | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 1 admitted | 1 | 2 | ||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 39 | 36 | 37 | 30 | 29 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #2 | Amherst College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #9 | Bowdoin College | 2 | 2 admitted | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| #11 | Wesleyan University | 2 | 1 admitted | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| #11 | Grinnell College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #11 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #11 | Barnard College | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #11 | Middlebury College | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | |
| #16 | Davidson College | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #16 | Vassar College | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Smith College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Hamilton College | 3 | 1 admitted | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| #21 | Colgate University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #24 | Bates College | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #25 | Colby College | 3 | 4 admitted | 1 | 2 | 3 | 13 |
| #25 | University of Richmond | 4 | 2 admitted | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| #27 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 4 | 7 | |
| #30 | Bucknell University | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #30 | Bryn Mawr College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #30 | Lafayette College | 3 | 3 admitted | 3 | 9 | ||
| #33 | Colorado College | 2 | 3 admitted | 1 | 6 | ||
| #34 | Mount Holyoke College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #35 | Scripps College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | Occidental College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #36 | Oberlin College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #38 | Union College | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #38 | Skidmore College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Kenyon College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Denison University | 1 | 2 admitted | 1 | 4 | ||
| #39 | Trinity College | 3 | 2 admitted | 5 | 4 | 2 | 16 |
| #45 | Union College | 2 admitted | 2 | 4 | |||
| #46 | Connecticut College | 1 | 4 admitted | 1 | 6 | ||
| #46 | Dickinson College | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| #51 | The University of the South | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #56 | Wheaton College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #59 | St. Lawrence University | 4 admitted | 1 | 5 | |||
| #63 | Gettysburg College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #70 | Muhlenberg College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #70 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #86 | Stonehill College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| United States Military Academy | 1 admitted | 1 | |||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #1 | University of Toronto | 1 | 1 | ||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #33 | University of St. Andrews | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
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Spanish Language and Culture
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Spanish Literature and Culture
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Chinese Language and Culture
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French Language and Culture
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Latin
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Spanish Language and Culture
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Spanish Literature and Culture
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Biology
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Environmental Science
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Physics 2
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Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
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Physics C: Mechanics
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Computer Science A
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Computer Science Principles
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European History
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Microeconomics
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United States Government and Politics
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United States History
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English Literature and Composition
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Art History
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Music Theory
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Studio Art: 2-D Design
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Alpine Skiing
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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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Dance
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Alpine Skiing
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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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Dance
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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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Nordic 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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Wrestling
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Anime Club
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Asian Culture
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Astronomy Club
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Bonsai Club
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Cheese Club
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Chemistry Club
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Anime Club
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Asian Culture
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Astronomy Club
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Bonsai Club
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Cheese Club
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Chemistry Club
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Chess Club
Circle of Women
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Common Sense
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Competitive Eating Club
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Computer Science Club
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Cooking Club
Country Music Club
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Disney Movie Club
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Divine Visions (Step team)
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Ethics Bowl
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Fashion Club
Finance Club
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Fishing Club
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Flashmob Club
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FOCUS
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Frisbee Club
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Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA)
Harry Potter Club
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Hip Hop Music Club
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Horror Movie Club
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Improv Club
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Indie Music Club
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Intramural Basketball Club
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Investing In Girls (IIG)
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Iris
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Jazz Lunch
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Jewish Club
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JSA (Junior Statesmen)
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Literary Appreciation Society
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Longboarding Club
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Math Club
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Middlesex Art Association (MxAA)
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Mindfulness Club
MX Talks
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MXTV
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Outdoor Club
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Photo Club
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Poetry Club
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Politically Incorrect Debate Club (PIDC)
Pottery Club
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Robotics Club
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Rocketry Club
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Rollerblading Club
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Sailing Club
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Society of Latinos (SOL)
Songwriters Club
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Spectrum
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Summer Club
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TED Talks
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The Anvil
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Tie Dye Club
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Young Republicans
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Drawing
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