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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| LAC #2 | Amherst College | 1 + |
| #17 | Cornell University | 1 + |
| #23 | Georgetown University | 1 + |
| #25 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 + |
| #28 | New York University | 1 + |
| #28 | Tufts University | 1 + |
| #34 | University of California: San Diego | 1 + |
| #34 | University of Rochester | 1 + |
| #36 | Boston College | 1 + |
| #42 | Boston University | 1 + |
| #42 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 + |
| LAC #9 | Middlebury College | 1 + |
| #49 | Lehigh University | 1 + |
| #49 | Northeastern University | 1 + |
| #55 | Santa Clara University | 1 + |
| #59 | Syracuse University | 1 + |
| #63 | George Washington University | 1 + |
| #63 | University of Connecticut | 1 + |
| #68 | Fordham University | 1 + |
| #68 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 + |
| #68 | Southern Methodist University | 1 + |
| #68 | St. Lawrence University | 1 + |
| #79 | American University | 1 + |
| #83 | Elon University | 1 + |
| #83 | Texas Christian University | 1 + |
| LAC #17 | Colgate University | 1 + |
| #93 | University of Denver | 1 + |
| #103 | Temple University | 1 + |
| #103 | University of Arizona | 1 + |
| LAC #22 | University of Richmond | 1 + |
| LAC #22 | Vassar College | 1 + |
| #117 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 + |
| #117 | University of Vermont | 1 + |
| LAC #26 | Colorado College | 1 + |
| #137 | University of Alabama | 1 + |
| LAC #28 | Harvey Mudd College | 1 + |
| LAC #30 | Kenyon College | 1 + |
| #151 | James Madison University | 1 + |
| LAC #35 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 + |
| LAC #35 | Pitzer College | 1 + |
| #182 | Adelphi University | 1 + |
| LAC #38 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 + |
| LAC #38 | Lafayette College | 1 + |
| LAC #38 | Skidmore College | 1 + |
| LAC #42 | Denison University | 1 + |
| LAC #42 | Occidental College | 1 + |
| LAC #46 | Trinity College | 1 + |
| Albertus Magnus College | 1 + | |
| Babson College | 1 + | |
| BENTLEY COLLEGE | 1 + | |
| CENTRAL CT STATE UNIVERSITY | 1 + | |
| College of Charleston | 1 + | |
| Endicott College | 1 + | |
| Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts | 1 + | |
| Franklin Pierce University | 1 + | |
| Ithaca College | 1 + | |
| MIAMI OF OHIO | 1 + | |
| Providence College | 1 + | |
| SCARED HEART UNIVERSITY | 1 + | |
| Siena College | 1 + | |
| ST JOSEPHSS COLLEGE | 1 + | |
| SUNY OSWEGO | 1 + |
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| Ranking | University/College | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | Total |
| All schools | 30 | 42 | 47 | 35 | 29 | ||
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #7 | Duke University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #9 | Northwestern University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #12 | Cornell University | 1 +admitted | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #21 | University of Michigan | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #22 | Georgetown University | 1 +admitted | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 +admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #24 | Emory University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #28 | University of California: Davis | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #28 | University of California: San Diego | 1 +admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #28 | University of Southern California | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #33 | University of California: Irvine | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | New York University | 1 +admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Boston College | 1 +admitted | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #40 | Tufts University | 1 +admitted | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #43 | Boston University | 1 +admitted | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | ||
| #47 | Lehigh University | 1 +admitted | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #47 | University of Rochester | 1 +admitted | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #47 | University of Georgia | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #53 | Northeastern University | 1 +admitted | 3 | 4 | |||
| #53 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #58 | University of Connecticut | 1 +admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #60 | Michigan State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #60 | Santa Clara University | 1 +admitted | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| #67 | Syracuse University | 1 +admitted | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #67 | University of Miami | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #67 | George Washington University | 1 +admitted | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |
| #73 | Tulane University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 +admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #76 | Colorado School of Mines | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #76 | University of Delaware | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #89 | Temple University | 1 +admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #89 | Fordham University | 1 +admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #89 | Southern Methodist University | 1 +admitted | 1 | 3 | 5 | ||
| #93 | Loyola Marymount University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
| #98 | Texas Christian University | 1 +admitted | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| #105 | Arizona State University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #105 | American University | 1 +admitted | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #115 | University of Arizona | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
| #124 | Fairfield University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #124 | University of Denver | 1 +admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #124 | University of South Carolina: Columbia | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #124 | James Madison University | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
| #133 | Elon University | 1 +admitted | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| #133 | Chapman University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | Miami University: Oxford | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #133 | University of Vermont | 1 +admitted | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #137 | University of Alabama | 1 +admitted | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #142 | Clark University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #142 | Clarkson University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #151 | DePaul University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #151 | University of Rhode Island | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #163 | Adelphi University | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
| #163 | University of Mississippi | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #170 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #178 | Catholic University of America | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #209 | Sacred Heart University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #216 | University of Massachusetts Boston | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #260 | University of New England | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #304 | University of Hartford | 1 | 1 | ||||
| University of Maryland: College Park | 1 | 1 | |||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | Total |
| All schools | 17 | 28 | 23 | 24 | 23 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #2 | Amherst College | 1 +admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #4 | Wellesley College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #7 | United States Air Force Academy | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #9 | Bowdoin College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #11 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #11 | Middlebury College | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
| #11 | Wesleyan University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Vassar College | 1 +admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #16 | Hamilton College | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #16 | Harvey Mudd College | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
| #21 | Colgate University | 1 +admitted | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
| #21 | Washington and Lee University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #24 | Bates College | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #25 | Colby College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #25 | University of Richmond | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
| #27 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
| #30 | Lafayette College | 1 +admitted | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| #30 | Bucknell University | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #33 | Colorado College | 1 +admitted | 3 | 2 | 6 | ||
| #35 | Occidental College | 1 +admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 +admitted | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #38 | Skidmore College | 1 +admitted | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| #39 | Denison University | 1 +admitted | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | |
| #39 | Kenyon College | 1 +admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #39 | Trinity College | 1 +admitted | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| #39 | Pitzer College | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
| #45 | Union College | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #46 | Connecticut College | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| #51 | The University of the South | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #59 | St. Lawrence University | 1 +admitted | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| #63 | Gettysburg College | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #70 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #73 | Lake Forest College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #121 | Transylvania University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Oberlin College | 1 | 1 | |||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | Total |
| All schools | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| #1 | University of Toronto | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | Total |
| All schools | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #33 | University of St. Andrews | 2 | 2 | ||||
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Spanish Language and Culture
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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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Field Hockey
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Golf
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Ice Hockey
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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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Movie Club
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Brook Books
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Investment Club
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GLOW Club
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Millbrook Kicks Cancer
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Friday Night Council
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Movie Club
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Brook Books
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Investment Club
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GLOW Club
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Millbrook Kicks Cancer
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Friday Night Council
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Millbrook Menstrual Movement
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Engineering Club
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Futsol Club
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One Love
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Weight Lifting Club
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Yoga Club
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Philosophy Club
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Book Club
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Dorm Leaders
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Jazz Ensemble
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Millbrook Singers
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Model UN
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Outreach
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Peer Counselors
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Riding
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SCAPE
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Students Concerned About Planet Earth
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School Newspaper
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Senior Prefects
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Skiing and Snowboarding
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Student Advisors
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Student Tutors
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Tour Guides
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Ultimate Frisbee
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Yearbook
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Zoo Squad
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Diversity Club
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Drama Club
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Fitness Club
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Hiking Club
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Literary Magazine
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Millbrook Voices
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Digital Photography
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Music
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Music Theory
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Public Speaking
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Songwriting
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Ceramics
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Music Theory
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Pottery
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