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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| #22 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 |
| #28 | Tufts University | 1 + |
| #28 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 + |
| #28 | Wake Forest University | 1 |
| #40 | College of William and Mary | 1 |
| #42 | Tulane University | 1 + |
| #42 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 + |
| #48 | University of Georgia | 1 |
| #49 | Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 1 |
| #49 | Villanova University | 1 |
| #55 | Rhodes College | 1 |
| #55 | University of Miami | 1 |
| #57 | Penn State University Park | 1 |
| #63 | Agnes Scott College | 1 |
| #63 | George Washington University | 1 |
| LAC #13 | Davidson College | 1 + |
| #70 | Wofford College | 1 + |
| #75 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 1 |
| #79 | North Carolina State University | 1 |
| #93 | University of Denver | 1 + |
| Auburn University | 1 | |
| #104 | University of Tennessee: Knoxville | 1 + |
| LAC #22 | University of Richmond | 1 |
| #117 | University of South Carolina: Columbia | 1 |
| #117 | University of Vermont | 1 |
| #120 | Roanoke College | 1 |
| #124 | Morehouse College | 1 |
| LAC #25 | Bates College | 1 + |
| #127 | University of Kentucky | 1 |
| #151 | Colorado State University | 1 |
| #151 | University of Mississippi | 1 + |
| LAC #38 | Skidmore College | 1 + |
| #202 | University of North Carolina at Wilmington | 1 + |
| #219 | Texas Tech University | 1 |
| LAC #46 | DePauw University | 1 |
| LAC #46 | Trinity College | 1 |
| #250 | Central Michigan University | 1 |
| LAC #50 | The University of the South | 1 + |
| #263 | Western Carolina University | 1 |
| LAC #55 | Centre College | 1 |
| Appalachian State University | 1 | |
| California Polytechnic State University: San Luis Obispo | 1 | |
| High Point University | 1 | |
| North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University | 1 | |
| School of the Art Institute of Chicago | 1 | |
| University of Calgary | 1 | |
| University of Tampa | 1 |
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2024 | 2023 | 2019-2022 | 2021 | 2020 | Total |
| All schools | 27 | 33 | 186 | 42 | 35 | ||
| #3 | Stanford University | 3 | 1 + | 4 | |||
| #3 | Harvard College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #5 | Yale University | 5 | 1 + | 6 | |||
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #7 | Duke University | 1 + | 4 | 1 | 6 | ||
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #12 | Columbia University | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||
| #12 | Cornell University | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 + | 1 + | 22 | 4 | 1 + | 29 |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | ||
| #24 | Emory University | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #24 | University of Virginia | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #28 | University of California: Davis | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #28 | University of Southern California | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #28 | University of California: San Diego | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||
| #33 | University of California: Irvine | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| #35 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 + | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #35 | New York University | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | |
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Boston College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #40 | University of Washington | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #40 | Tufts University | 1 + | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #43 | Boston University | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | ||
| #47 | University of Georgia | 1 | 1 + | 2 | 4 | ||
| #47 | Lehigh University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 1 | 1 + | 9 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| #47 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #47 | Texas A&M University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #49 | Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #49 | Purdue University | 1 + | 1 + | 2 | |||
| #53 | College of William and Mary | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #53 | Northeastern University | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #53 | University of Minnesota: Twin Cities | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #57 | Penn State University Park | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #60 | North Carolina State University | 1 | 1 + | 6 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| #60 | Brandeis University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #60 | Santa Clara University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #67 | Villanova University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #67 | George Washington University | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 13 |
| #67 | University of Miami | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #67 | Syracuse University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #73 | Tulane University | 1 + | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #76 | SUNY University at Buffalo | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #76 | Colorado School of Mines | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #82 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #86 | Clemson University | 5 | 1 | 1 + | 7 | ||
| #86 | Marquette University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #89 | Southern Methodist University | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | ||
| #93 | Auburn University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #93 | Baylor University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #93 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #98 | Texas Christian University | 1 + | 3 | 1 + | 5 | ||
| #105 | American University | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||
| #105 | University of Tennessee: Knoxville | 1 + | 5 | 1 | 7 | ||
| #105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 4 | 4 | ||||
| #115 | University of San Francisco | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #115 | University of Utah | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #124 | University of Denver | 1 + | 1 | ||||
| #124 | University of South Carolina: Columbia | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #124 | University of Oklahoma | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | SUNY University at Albany | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | University of Vermont | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #133 | Elon University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #137 | University of Alabama | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #151 | Colorado State University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #159 | University of Kentucky | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #163 | University of Mississippi | 1 + | 1 | 2 | |||
| #178 | University of North Carolina at Charlotte | 1 + | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #201 | University of North Carolina at Wilmington | 1 + | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| #209 | Florida Atlantic University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #216 | Texas Tech University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #216 | University of North Carolina at Greensboro | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #227 | Georgia State University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #227 | Western Carolina University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #236 | Belmont University | 3 | 1 | 1 + | 5 | ||
| #260 | Central Michigan University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #280 | Hampton University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #303 | Montana State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #304 | University of Indianapolis | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #304 | Louisiana Tech University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2024 | 2023 | 2019-2022 | 2021 | 2020 | Total |
| All schools | 13 | 13 | 32 | 10 | 8 | ||
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #4 | Wellesley College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #9 | Bowdoin College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #11 | Barnard College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #11 | United States Military Academy | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #11 | Middlebury College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Davidson College | 1 + | 6 | 7 | |||
| #21 | Washington and Lee University | 1 + | 1 | 1 + | 3 | ||
| #24 | Bates College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
| #25 | Colby College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #25 | University of Richmond | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #27 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #27 | Macalester College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #30 | Bucknell University | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #30 | Lafayette College | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #30 | Bryn Mawr College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #33 | Colorado College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #38 | Skidmore College | 1 + | 1 | 2 | |||
| #39 | Spelman College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Kenyon College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Trinity College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Denison University | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #39 | Pitzer College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #46 | Furman University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #46 | Dickinson College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #46 | Connecticut College | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #46 | DePauw University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #51 | The University of the South | 1 + | 1 + | 1 | 3 | ||
| #51 | Centre College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #56 | Rhodes College | 1 | 1 + | 2 | |||
| #59 | Wofford College | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 1 + | 4 | |
| #63 | Agnes Scott College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #86 | Ursinus College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #86 | Beloit College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #100 | Morehouse College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #124 | Millsaps College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #130 | Roanoke College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #139 | University of North Carolina at Asheville | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2024 | 2023 | 2019-2022 | 2021 | 2020 | Total |
| All schools | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #1 | University of Toronto | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #3 | McGill University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #7 | University of Calgary | 1 | 1 | ||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2024 | 2023 | 2019-2022 | 2021 | 2020 | Total |
| All schools | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #10 | University of Bristol | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #22 | Cardiff University | 1 | 1 | ||||
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