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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#1 | Princeton University | 1 + |
#2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 + |
#3 | Harvard College | 1 + |
#3 | Stanford University | 1 + |
#3 | Yale University | 1 + |
LAC #1 | Williams College | 1 + |
#7 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 + |
#7 | University of Pennsylvania | 1 + |
#9 | California Institute of Technology | 1 + |
#10 | Duke University | 1 + |
#10 | Northwestern University | 1 + |
LAC #2 | Amherst College | 1 + |
#12 | Dartmouth College | 1 + |
#13 | Brown University | 1 + |
#13 | Vanderbilt University | 1 + |
#15 | Rice University | 1 + |
#15 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 + |
#17 | Cornell University | 1 + |
#18 | Columbia University | 1 + |
#20 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 + |
#20 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 + |
LAC #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 + |
#22 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 + |
#22 | Emory University | 1 + |
#22 | Georgetown University | 1 + |
#25 | New York University | 1 + |
#25 | University of Michigan | 1 + |
#25 | University of Southern California | 1 + |
LAC #5 | Wellesley College | 1 + |
#29 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 + |
LAC #6 | Bowdoin College | 1 + |
LAC #6 | Carleton College | 1 + |
LAC #6 | United States Naval Academy | 1 + |
#32 | Tufts University | 1 + |
#34 | University of California: San Diego | 1 + |
#36 | Boston College | 1 + |
#36 | University of Rochester | 1 + |
#38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 + |
#38 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 + |
#41 | Boston University | 1 + |
#44 | Brandeis University | 1 + |
#44 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 + |
#44 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 + |
#44 | Northeastern University | 1 + |
#44 | Tulane University | 1 + |
#51 | Lehigh University | 1 + |
#51 | Purdue University | 1 + |
#51 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 + |
#51 | Villanova University | 1 + |
#55 | Santa Clara University | 1 + |
#55 | University of Miami | 1 + |
LAC #11 | Middlebury College | 1 + |
#62 | George Washington University | 1 + |
#62 | Syracuse University | 1 + |
#63 | Lawrence University | 1 + |
#63 | St. Olaf College | 1 + |
LAC #13 | Smith College | 1 + |
LAC #13 | Vassar College | 1 + |
#67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 + |
#67 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1 + |
#68 | St. Lawrence University | 1 + |
#72 | American University | 1 + |
#72 | Fordham University | 1 + |
#72 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 1 + |
#72 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 + |
#72 | Sarah Lawrence College | 1 + |
LAC #15 | Davidson College | 1 + |
#77 | Clemson University | 1 + |
#77 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 + |
#89 | Elon University | 1 + |
#89 | Texas Christian University | 1 + |
LAC #18 | Barnard College | 1 + |
LAC #18 | Colgate University | 1 + |
LAC #18 | Wesleyan University | 1 + |
#105 | Miami University: Oxford | 1 + |
#105 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 + |
LAC #24 | Colby College | 1 + |
#121 | Chapman University | 1 + |
LAC #25 | Bates College | 1 + |
LAC #27 | Colorado College | 1 + |
#137 | University of New Hampshire | 1 + |
LAC #29 | Harvey Mudd College | 1 + |
LAC #31 | Kenyon College | 1 + |
LAC #33 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 + |
LAC #33 | Pitzer College | 1 + |
LAC #37 | Bucknell University | 1 + |
LAC #39 | Denison University | 1 + |
LAC #39 | Lafayette College | 1 + |
LAC #39 | Skidmore College | 1 + |
LAC #39 | Trinity College | 1 + |
LAC #55 | Connecticut College | 1 + |
LAC #61 | Gettysburg College | 1 + |
and Design | 1 + | |
Babson College | 1 + | |
Bentley University | 1 + | |
Boston Conservatory at Berklee | 1 + | |
Champlain College | 2 + | |
College of William and Mary | 1 + | |
Emerson College | 1 + | |
Franklin & Marshall College | 1 + | |
Frost School of Music | 1 + | |
Greenfield Community College | 1 + | |
Indiana University at | 1 + | |
King's College London | 1 + | |
Massachusetts College of Art and Design | 1 + | |
McGill University | 1 + | |
New England Conservatory of Music | 1 + | |
Oberlin College | 1 + | |
Penn State University Park | 1 + | |
Rhode Island School of Design | 1 + | |
Rutgers University | 1 + | |
San Francisco Conservatory of Music | 1 + | |
Savannah College of Art and Design | 1 + | |
The New School College of Performing Arts | 1 + | |
Union College | 1 + | |
University of British Columbia | 1 + | |
University of California Davis University of California | 1 + | |
University of Cambridge | 1 + | |
University of Chicago University of Colorado | 1 + | |
University of Colorado Boulder | 1 + | |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 + | |
University of Oxford | 1 + | |
University of San Francisco University of St Andrews | 1 + | |
University of Toronto | 1 + | |
University of Vermont University of Virginia | 1 + | |
University of Washington University of Wisconsin | 1 + | |
UW Colleges Fox Valley | 1 + |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2018-2023 | 2017-2021 | 2017-2020 | 2017-2019 | 2015-2017 | Total |
All schools | 65 | 54 | 56 | 88 | 45 | ||
#1 | Princeton University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 5 | |
#2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#3 | Stanford University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 4 | |
#3 | Harvard College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#5 | Yale University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#6 | University of Pennsylvania | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#7 | Duke University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 5 | |
#7 | California Institute of Technology | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#9 | Brown University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#9 | Northwestern University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 4 | |
#12 | Cornell University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#12 | Columbia University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#12 | University of Chicago | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 3 | ||
#15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 4 | |
#17 | Rice University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#18 | Vanderbilt University | 1 + | 1 + | 2 | |||
#18 | Dartmouth College | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 5 | |
#20 | University of Notre Dame | 1 + | 2 + | 3 | |||
#21 | University of Michigan | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#22 | Georgetown University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 5 | |
#24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 4 | |
#24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#24 | University of Virginia | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 4 | ||
#24 | Emory University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#28 | University of California: San Diego | 1 + | 1 + | 2 | |||
#28 | University of Southern California | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 4 | |
#33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 + | 1 + | 2 | |||
#35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 3 | ||
#35 | New York University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#39 | Boston College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#40 | University of Washington | 1 + | 1 + | 2 | |||
#40 | Tufts University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#40 | Rutgers University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#43 | Boston University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#47 | Wake Forest University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#47 | Lehigh University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#47 | University of Rochester | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 3 | ||
#51 | Purdue University | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 4 | ||
#53 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#53 | Northeastern University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#53 | College of William and Mary | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 4 | ||
#56 | Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 2 + | 2 | ||||
#58 | University of Connecticut | 2 + | 1 + | 3 | |||
#60 | Santa Clara University | 1 + | 1 + | 2 | |||
#60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 5 | |
#60 | Brandeis University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#67 | Syracuse University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#67 | University of Miami | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 4 | ||
#67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#67 | Villanova University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#67 | George Washington University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#73 | Tulane University | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 5 | |
#76 | Pepperdine University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#82 | University of Illinois at Chicago | 1 + | 1 + | 2 | |||
#82 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 3 | ||
#86 | Clemson University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#89 | Temple University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#89 | Fordham University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#93 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#98 | Texas Christian University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 3 | ||
#98 | Drexel University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#98 | University of San Diego | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 5 | |
#105 | American University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#115 | University of New Hampshire | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 3 | ||
#115 | University of San Francisco | 1 + | 2 + | 3 | |||
#124 | University of Denver | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#133 | University of Vermont | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 5 | |
#133 | Elon University | 1 + | 1 + | 2 | |||
#133 | Chapman University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#133 | Miami University: Oxford | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 3 | ||
#201 | The New School College of Performing Arts | 1 + | 1 | ||||
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 4 | ||
Penn State University Park | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 4 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2018-2023 | 2017-2021 | 2017-2020 | 2017-2019 | 2015-2017 | Total |
All schools | 36 | 29 | 39 | 46 | 27 | ||
#1 | Williams College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 5 | |
#2 | Amherst College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 4 | |
#3 | United States Naval Academy | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#4 | Swarthmore College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#4 | Wellesley College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 3 | ||
#9 | Bowdoin College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 4 | |
#9 | Carleton College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 3 | ||
#11 | Wesleyan University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#11 | Barnard College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#11 | Middlebury College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#16 | Harvey Mudd College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#16 | Hamilton College | 1 + | 1 + | 2 | |||
#16 | Smith College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 4 | |
#16 | Vassar College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#16 | Davidson College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 3 | ||
#21 | Washington and Lee University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#21 | Haverford College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#21 | Colgate University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#24 | Bates College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#25 | Colby College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#25 | University of Richmond | 2 + | 2 | ||||
#27 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#27 | Macalester College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#30 | Bryn Mawr College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#30 | Bucknell University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#30 | Lafayette College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#33 | Colorado College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 5 | |
#34 | Mount Holyoke College | 1 + | 1 + | 2 | |||
#35 | Occidental College | 1 + | 2 + | 3 | |||
#35 | Scripps College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 + | 1 + | 2 | |||
#38 | Skidmore College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#38 | Union College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#39 | Pitzer College | 1 + | 1 + | 2 | |||
#39 | Denison University | 1 + | 1 + | 2 | |||
#39 | Trinity College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#39 | Kenyon College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#45 | Union College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 5 | |
#46 | Dickinson College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 3 | ||
#46 | Connecticut College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#46 | Whitman College | 2 + | 2 | ||||
#51 | St. Olaf College | 1 + | 1 + | 2 | |||
#51 | The University of the South | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#56 | Wheaton College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#59 | St. Lawrence University | 1 + | 1 + | 2 | |||
#63 | Gettysburg College | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 6 |
#67 | Reed College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#70 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 1 + | 1 + | 2 | |||
#72 | Bard College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#75 | Lawrence University | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#100 | Sarah Lawrence College | 1 + | 1 + | 2 | |||
Oberlin College | 1 + | 2 + | 1 + | 4 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2018-2023 | 2017-2021 | 2017-2020 | 2017-2019 | 2015-2017 | Total |
All schools | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
#1 | University of Toronto | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#2 | University of British Columbia | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 3 | ||
#3 | McGill University | 1 + | 1 + | 1 + | 3 |
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Ranking | University/College | 2018-2023 | 2017-2021 | 2017-2020 | 2017-2019 | 2015-2017 | Total |
All schools | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
#1 | University of Oxford | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#2 | University of Cambridge | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#6 | King's College London | 1 + | 1 |
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Baseball
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Basketball
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Cross Country
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Golf
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Ice Hockey
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Alpine Skiing
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Baseball
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Basketball
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Cross Country
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Golf
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Ice Hockey
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Lacrosse
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Mountain Biking
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Nordic Skiing
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Soccer
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Softball
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Swimming
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Tennis
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Track and Field
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Ultimate Frisbee
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Volleyball
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Wrestling
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A Cappella Ensembles
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Chamber Orchestra
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Chamber Music Club
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Concert Band
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Concert Choir
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Jazz Ensemble
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A Cappella Ensembles
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Chamber Orchestra
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Chamber Music Club
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Concert Band
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Concert Choir
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Jazz Ensemble
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NMH Pianists
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NMH Singers
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Select Women’s Ensemble
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Senior and Junior Dance Companies
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Symphony Orchestra
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Theater Lab Board
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Theater Program
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World Music Combo
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Business Management Club
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CSFirst
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Debate Society
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The F Word
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Football Club NMH
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Hogwarts Hoggers: NMH HPA
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Kill Your Darlings Society
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Knitting
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Latin Club
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The NMH Math Team
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Model United Nations
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Movie Club
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NMH Business Club
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Peer Educators
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Pokémon Trainers Association of NMH
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SAT/ACT Club
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Stream News
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Student Alumni Association
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White Coats
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WNMH Radio
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Drawing
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Painting
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Portfolio
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