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 | 7 |
| #2 | Columbia University | 2 |
| #2 | Harvard College | 1 |
| #5 | Yale University | 3 |
| LAC #1 | Williams College | 1 |
| #6 | Stanford University | 1 |
| #8 | University of Pennsylvania | 15 |
| #9 | Duke University | 4 |
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 3 |
| #13 | Dartmouth College | 4 |
| #14 | Brown University | 2 |
| #14 | Vanderbilt University | 1 |
| LAC #3 | Swarthmore College | 1 |
| #17 | Cornell University | 4 |
| #19 | University of Notre Dame | 3 |
| #20 | University of California: Los Angeles | 5 |
| LAC #4 | Pomona College | 1 |
| #21 | Emory University | 1 |
| #22 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 |
| #23 | Georgetown University | 7 |
| #23 | University of Michigan | 4 |
| #25 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 |
| #25 | University of Virginia | 4 |
| #27 | University of Southern California | 3 |
| #28 | New York University | 5 |
| #28 | Tufts University | 4 |
| #28 | Wake Forest University | 8 |
| LAC #6 | Bowdoin College | 2 |
| #34 | University of Rochester | 1 |
| #36 | Boston College | 5 |
| #38 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #40 | College of William and Mary | 1 |
| #42 | Boston University | 4 |
| #42 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 |
| #42 | Tulane University | 2 |
| #42 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 3 |
| LAC #9 | Middlebury College | 2 |
| #49 | Lehigh University | 4 |
| #49 | Northeastern University | 10 |
| #49 | Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 1 |
| #51 | Spelman College | 3 |
| #55 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 |
| #55 | University of Miami | 7 |
| LAC #11 | United States Military Academy | 1 |
| LAC #11 | Washington and Lee University | 2 |
| #57 | Penn State University Park | 7 |
| #57 | University of Pittsburgh | 2 |
| #59 | Syracuse University | 6 |
| #59 | University of Maryland: College Park | 1 |
| #62 | Rutgers University | 1 |
| #63 | George Washington University | 9 |
| LAC #13 | Davidson College | 2 |
| LAC #13 | Hamilton College | 1 |
| #68 | Fordham University | 7 |
| #68 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 |
| #68 | Southern Methodist University | 5 |
| #70 | Wofford College | 1 |
| #75 | Clemson University | 2 |
| #75 | Loyola Marymount University | 3 |
| #79 | American University | 3 |
| LAC #16 | Haverford College | 1 |
| #83 | Elon University | 6 |
| #83 | Howard University | 4 |
| #83 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #83 | Texas Christian University | 2 |
| LAC #17 | Barnard College | 4 |
| LAC #17 | Colby College | 1 |
| LAC #17 | Colgate University | 1 |
| LAC #17 | Wesleyan University | 1 |
| #93 | University of Delaware | 3 |
| Auburn University | 2 | |
| #99 | University of Oregon | 1 |
| #103 | Drexel University | 6 |
| #103 | Miami University: Oxford | 1 |
| #103 | Temple University | 8 |
| #103 | University of San Francisco | 1 |
| #103 | University of South Florida | 1 |
| #104 | University of Colorado Boulder | 3 |
| #104 | University of Tennessee: Knoxville | 3 |
| LAC #22 | University of Richmond | 6 |
| #115 | Fairfield University | 3 |
| Arizona State University | 1 | |
| #117 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 |
| LAC #25 | Bates College | 1 |
| LAC #26 | Colorado College | 2 |
| LAC #27 | Macalester College | 2 |
| #137 | University of Alabama | 2 |
| #148 | Duquesne University | 1 |
| #151 | Colorado State University | 1 |
| #151 | James Madison University | 1 |
| LAC #36 | Oberlin College | 1 |
| LAC #38 | Bucknell University | 6 |
| LAC #38 | Franklin & Marshall College | 5 |
| LAC #38 | Lafayette College | 2 |
| LAC #42 | Denison University | 1 |
| #219 | Hampton University | 1 |
| LAC #46 | Furman University | 2 |
| LAC #46 | Trinity College | 1 |
| #250 | West Chester University of Pennsylvania | 1 |
| LAC #50 | Dickinson College | 1 |
| #263 | Montana State University | 1 |
| #263 | Point Park University | 1 |
| #299 | Marshall University | 1 |
| LAC #61 | Gettysburg College | 1 |
| American University of Paris | 1 | |
| College of Charleston | 3 | |
| Emerson College | 1 | |
| Ithaca College | 1 | |
| Jewish Theological Seminary of America | 1 | |
| Loyola University Maryland | 2 | |
| Marist College | 1 | |
| McGill University | 1 | |
| McMaster University | 1 | |
| Millersville University of Pennsylvania | 1 | |
| Queens University of Charlotte | 1 | |
| Roger Williams University | 1 | |
| Rollins College | 2 | |
| Saint Joseph's University | 4 | |
| St. Francis University | 1 | |
| The New School College of Performing Arts | 1 | |
| United States Coast Guard Academy | 1 | |
| University of Scranton | 1 | |
| University of Tampa | 1 |
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2017-2021 | 2019 | 2018 | 2012-2016 | 2010-2014 | Total |
| All schools | 239 | 38 | 43 | 208 | 165 | ||
| #1 | Princeton University | 7 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 21 | |
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #3 | Harvard College | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 13 | |
| #3 | Stanford University | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | ||
| #5 | Yale University | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 15 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 24 | 66 |
| #7 | Duke University | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | ||
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| #9 | Northwestern University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #9 | Brown University | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | ||
| #12 | University of Chicago | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #12 | Columbia University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| #12 | Cornell University | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 14 | |
| #15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 1 | 5 | 6 | |||
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | |
| #20 | University of Notre Dame | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| #21 | University of Michigan | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | ||
| #22 | Georgetown University | 7 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 33 |
| #22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||
| #24 | University of Virginia | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 19 | |
| #24 | Emory University | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | ||
| #28 | University of Southern California | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | ||
| #28 | University of California: Davis | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #35 | New York University | 5 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 18 | |
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | ||
| #39 | Boston College | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 22 |
| #40 | Tufts University | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | |
| #40 | Rutgers University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #43 | Boston University | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
| #47 | University of Rochester | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 8 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 17 |
| #47 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #47 | Lehigh University | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 20 |
| #49 | Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #53 | Northeastern University | 10 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 20 |
| #53 | College of William and Mary | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | ||
| #53 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #57 | Penn State University Park | 7 | 1 | 2 | 10 | ||
| #59 | University of Maryland: College Park | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #60 | Brandeis University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #67 | George Washington University | 9 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 22 | |
| #67 | University of Miami | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 15 |
| #67 | University of Pittsburgh | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | |
| #67 | Syracuse University | 6 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 27 |
| #73 | Tulane University | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 11 | |
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #76 | Pepperdine University | 4 | 4 | ||||
| #76 | University of Delaware | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 13 | |
| #76 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #86 | Clemson University | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | ||
| #89 | University of South Florida | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #89 | Southern Methodist University | 5 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
| #89 | Fordham University | 7 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||
| #89 | Temple University | 8 | 8 | ||||
| #93 | Loyola Marymount University | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| #93 | Auburn University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #98 | Drexel University | 6 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 24 |
| #98 | Texas Christian University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | University of Oregon | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #105 | American University | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | ||
| #105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||
| #105 | Arizona State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #105 | University of Tennessee: Knoxville | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #115 | University of San Francisco | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #115 | Howard University | 4 | 4 | ||||
| #124 | Fairfield University | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #124 | University of Denver | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #124 | James Madison University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | Miami University: Oxford | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #133 | University of Vermont | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #133 | Elon University | 6 | 6 | ||||
| #137 | University of Alabama | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #151 | Colorado State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #151 | Duquesne University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #201 | The New School College of Performing Arts | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #209 | West Chester University of Pennsylvania | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #280 | Hampton University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #303 | Montana State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #332 | Marshall University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #352 | Point Park University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2017-2021 | 2019 | 2018 | 2012-2016 | 2010-2014 | Total |
| All schools | 56 | 7 | 11 | 54 | 56 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #2 | Amherst College | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #4 | Wellesley College | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #4 | Pomona College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #9 | Bowdoin College | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
| #11 | United States Military Academy | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #11 | Middlebury College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #11 | Barnard College | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||
| #11 | Wesleyan University | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| #16 | Hamilton College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Davidson College | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #16 | Vassar College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #21 | Washington and Lee University | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | |
| #21 | Haverford College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #21 | Colgate University | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #24 | Bates College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #25 | University of Richmond | 6 | 2 | 8 | 16 | ||
| #25 | Colby College | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |
| #27 | Macalester College | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #30 | Lafayette College | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #30 | Bucknell University | 6 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 29 |
| #30 | Bryn Mawr College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #33 | Colorado College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 5 | 1 | 9 | 15 | ||
| #35 | Occidental College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #36 | Oberlin College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #38 | Skidmore College | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #39 | Kenyon College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #39 | Spelman College | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #39 | Denison University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Trinity College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| #46 | Connecticut College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #46 | Furman University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #46 | Dickinson College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #59 | Wofford College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #63 | Gettysburg College | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | ||
| #72 | Bard College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2017-2021 | 2019 | 2018 | 2012-2016 | 2010-2014 | Total |
| All schools | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #3 | McGill University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #4 | McMaster University | 1 | 1 | ||||
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Cross Country
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Diving
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Field Hockey
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Golf
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Basketball
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Crew
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Cross Country
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Diving
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Field Hockey
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Golf
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Lacrosse
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Softball
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Squash
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Swimming
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Tennis
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Track and Field
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Cinema Club
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FOCUS
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Girls Grant Making Club
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Lower School Helpers
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Model UN
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Stage Crew
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Cinema Club
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FOCUS
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Girls Grant Making Club
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Lower School Helpers
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Model UN
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Stage Crew
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Tour Guides
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Frenish Magazine
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The Wick
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AIS Allied
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AIS Video Project
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Arduino
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Athletes Helping Athletes
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Colorful Minds Club
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Community Outreach Club
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Costume Club
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Debate Club
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Female Empowerment Discussion Forum
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For the Culture
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Girls Outreach
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Guitar Club
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Knitting Club
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Marketing and Publicity Club
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Mindfulness Club
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Mo More Kids with Cancer
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PALS
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Paper Airplanes Club
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Pottery Club
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R&B Club
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Ravendell Book Club
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Set Design Club
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Social Justice Club
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STEM Club
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Sustainable Living Club
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The Political Forum
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World Affairs Club
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Young Democrats Club
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Young Republicans Club
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Arts Council
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Athletic Association
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Council for the Advancement of Girls
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Environmental Conservation Organization
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Honor Council
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Repertory Company
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Student Ambassador Leadership Team
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Student Government
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Service Council
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Unity Council
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Asian Student Alliance
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Black Student Union
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Compass
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Jewish Student Union
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Impulse Arts Magazine
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SKIRT
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The Lamp
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Theater
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Ceramics
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