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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#6 | University of Chicago | 1 |
#8 | University of Pennsylvania | 1 |
#9 | Duke University | 1 |
#9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 |
#13 | Dartmouth College | 1 |
#14 | Vanderbilt University | 1 |
#14 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 |
#17 | Cornell University | 1 |
#21 | Emory University | 1 |
#22 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 |
#23 | Georgetown University | 1 |
#25 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 |
#25 | University of Virginia | 2 |
#27 | University of Southern California | 1 |
#28 | New York University | 1 |
#28 | Wake Forest University | 1 |
#36 | Boston College | 1 |
#40 | College of William and Mary | 2 |
#42 | Boston University | 1 |
#49 | Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 1 |
#49 | Purdue University | 1 |
#57 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 |
#59 | University of Maryland: College Park | 1 |
#59 | University of Washington | 1 |
#63 | George Washington University | 1 |
#103 | University of Arizona | 1 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2018-2020 | 2016-2018 | Total |
All schools | 28 | 65 | 27 | 53 | 456 | ||
#1 | Princeton University | 1 +admitted | 17 admitted | 18 | |||
#2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 +admitted | 12 admitted | 13 | |||
#3 | Harvard College | 1 +admitted | 14 admitted | 15 | |||
#3 | Stanford University | 1 +admitted | 28 admitted | 29 | |||
#5 | Yale University | 1 +admitted | 13 admitted | 14 | |||
#6 | University of Pennsylvania | 1 | 1 +admitted | 12 admitted | 14 | ||
#7 | Duke University | 1 | 1 | 1 +admitted | 36 admitted | 39 | |
#7 | California Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 +admitted | 12 admitted | 14 | ||
#9 | Northwestern University | 1 | 1 +admitted | 24 admitted | 26 | ||
#9 | Brown University | 1 +admitted | 18 admitted | 19 | |||
#9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 | 4 admitted | 1 +admitted | 21 admitted | 27 | |
#12 | Columbia University | 2 +admitted | 11 admitted | 13 | |||
#12 | Cornell University | 1 | 1 +admitted | 34 admitted | 36 | ||
#12 | University of Chicago | 1 | 1 +admitted | 11 admitted | 13 | ||
#15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 | 2 admitted | 1 | 1 +admitted | 57 admitted | 62 |
#17 | Rice University | 1 +admitted | 23 admitted | 24 | |||
#18 | Dartmouth College | 1 | 1 +admitted | 16 admitted | 18 | ||
#18 | Vanderbilt University | 1 | 1 +admitted | 27 admitted | 29 | ||
#20 | University of Notre Dame | 1 +admitted | 7 admitted | 8 | |||
#21 | University of Michigan | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#22 | Georgetown University | 1 | 3 | 1 +admitted | 9 admitted | 14 | |
#22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#24 | University of Virginia | 2 | 15 admitted | 1 +admitted | 18 | ||
#24 | Emory University | 1 | 2 | 1 +admitted | 15 admitted | 19 | |
#24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 | 2 admitted | 1 | 1 +admitted | 5 | |
#24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 | 1 +admitted | 39 admitted | 41 | ||
#28 | University of California: San Diego | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#28 | University of Florida | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#28 | University of Southern California | 1 | 1 +admitted | 2 | |||
#28 | University of California: Davis | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#33 | University of California: Irvine | 3 admitted | 1 +admitted | 4 | |||
#33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2 admitted | 1 | 1 +admitted | 4 | ||
#35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#35 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#35 | New York University | 1 | 1 | 1 +admitted | 3 | ||
#39 | Boston College | 1 | 1 | 1 +admitted | 3 | ||
#40 | Tufts University | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#40 | University of Washington | 1 | 1 | ||||
#43 | Boston University | 1 | 3 admitted | 1 +admitted | 5 | ||
#47 | Wake Forest University | 1 | 1 +admitted | 2 | |||
#47 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2 admitted | 1 +admitted | 3 | |||
#47 | University of Rochester | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#47 | Lehigh University | 1 | 1 +admitted | 2 | |||
#48 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#49 | Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 1 | 1 | ||||
#49 | Purdue University | 1 | 2 admitted | 1 | 4 | ||
#53 | College of William and Mary | 2 | 5 admitted | 2 | 1 +admitted | 10 | |
#53 | Case Western Reserve University | 2 | 1 +admitted | 3 | |||
#53 | Northeastern University | 3 admitted | 1 | 1 +admitted | 5 | ||
#57 | Penn State University Park | 1 | 1 | ||||
#59 | University of Maryland: College Park | 1 | 11 admitted | 12 | |||
#60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#60 | Brandeis University | 1 | 1 +admitted | 2 | |||
#67 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 | 1 | ||||
#67 | University of Miami | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#67 | George Washington University | 1 | 6 admitted | 2 | 9 | ||
#73 | Tulane University | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#76 | Pepperdine University | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#105 | George Mason University | 5 admitted | 2 | 7 | |||
#115 | University of Arizona | 1 | 1 | ||||
#185 | Hofstra University | 1 | 1 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2018-2020 | 2016-2018 | Total |
All schools | 0 | 4 | 2 | 27 | 110 | ||
#1 | Williams College | 1 +admitted | 11 admitted | 12 | |||
#2 | Amherst College | 2 admitted | 1 | 1 +admitted | 9 admitted | 13 | |
#4 | Swarthmore College | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#4 | Pomona College | 1 +admitted | 3 admitted | 4 | |||
#4 | Wellesley College | 9 admitted | 9 | ||||
#9 | Bowdoin College | 1 +admitted | 5 admitted | 6 | |||
#9 | Carleton College | 1 +admitted | 8 admitted | 9 | |||
#11 | Wesleyan University | 1 +admitted | 3 admitted | 4 | |||
#11 | Middlebury College | 9 admitted | 9 | ||||
#11 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
#11 | Barnard College | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#11 | Grinnell College | 1 +admitted | 10 admitted | 11 | |||
#16 | Vassar College | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#16 | Hamilton College | 4 admitted | 4 | ||||
#16 | Smith College | 2 admitted | 1 +admitted | 10 admitted | 13 | ||
#16 | Davidson College | 1 +admitted | 4 admitted | 5 | |||
#16 | Harvey Mudd College | 1 +admitted | 7 admitted | 8 | |||
#21 | Washington and Lee University | 1 +admitted | 2 admitted | 3 | |||
#21 | Haverford College | 7 admitted | 7 | ||||
#21 | Colgate University | 3 admitted | 3 | ||||
#25 | Colby College | 1 | 1 +admitted | 5 admitted | 7 | ||
#30 | Lafayette College | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#30 | Bucknell University | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#34 | Mount Holyoke College | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#35 | Scripps College | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#35 | Occidental College | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#36 | Oberlin College | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#38 | Skidmore College | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#39 | Trinity College | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#39 | Pitzer College | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#45 | Union College | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#46 | Whitman College | 1 +admitted | 1 | ||||
#63 | Gettysburg College | 1 +admitted | 1 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2018-2020 | 2016-2018 | Total |
All schools | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
#1 | University of Toronto | 1 | 1 | ||||
#3 | McGill University | 2 admitted | 2 |
European History
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United States Government and Politics
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United States History
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English Language and Composition
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Biology
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Calculus AB
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European History
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United States Government and Politics
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United States History
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English Language and Composition
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Biology
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Calculus AB
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Calculus BC
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Chemistry
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Chinese Language and Culture
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Computer Science A
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English Literature and Composition
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French Language and Culture
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Latin
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Macroeconomics
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Microeconomics
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Physics 1
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Physics 2
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Psychology
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Studio Art: 2-D Design
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World History
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Spanish Language and Culture
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Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
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Computer Science Principles
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Statistics
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Music Theory
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Research
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Seminar
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Cross Country
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Fencing
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Dance
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Flag Football
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Tennis
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Volleyball
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Cross Country
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Fencing
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Dance
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Flag Football
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Tennis
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Volleyball
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Kung Fu
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Table Tennis
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Art of Anime
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Chess Club
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Journalism
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Model United Nations
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National Honor Society
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Quiz Bowl
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Art of Anime
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Chess Club
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Journalism
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Model United Nations
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National Honor Society
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Quiz Bowl
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Robotics
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Speech & Debate
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Yearbook
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AIME
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Biology
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Jr. Makers
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Coding
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Engineering
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Science Olympiad
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National French Honor Society
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National Spanish Honor Society
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International Thespian Society
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International Students Club
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Beginning Band
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Guitar
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Piano
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Beginning Orchestra
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Intermediate Band
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Intermediate Orchestra
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Drama
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Art Club
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National Junior Honor Society
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Kung Fu
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Jr. Mechanical Engineering
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Cooking Club
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Spontaneous Problem Solving
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Chapter Book Club
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Craft Club
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Physics Olympiads
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Knights of the Square Table
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Korean Culture Club
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Dance Club
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International Student Club
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Investment Club Pokémon Club
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MATHCOUNTS
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AMC
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Artists Club
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Astronomy
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Creative Writing
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Computer Science
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Crescendo
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Music
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Music Production
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Music Theory
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Performing
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Photography
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Studio Art
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Music
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Music Production
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Music Theory
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Performing
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Photography
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Studio Art
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Band
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Drama
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Guitar
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Piano
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