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 |
| LAC #1 | Williams College | 1 |
| #7 | Johns Hopkins University | 2 |
| #10 | Duke University | 1 |
| #10 | Northwestern University | 2 |
| #12 | Dartmouth College | 1 |
| #13 | Brown University | 1 |
| #17 | Cornell University | 2 |
| #20 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 |
| #22 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 2 |
| #25 | New York University | 1 |
| #25 | University of Virginia | 3 |
| #29 | Wake Forest University | 2 |
| LAC #6 | Bowdoin College | 1 |
| #32 | Tufts University | 1 |
| #34 | University of California: Irvine | 1 |
| #36 | Boston College | 4 |
| #38 | University of California: Davis | 1 |
| #38 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 3 |
| #44 | Brandeis University | 1 |
| #44 | Northeastern University | 3 |
| #44 | Tulane University | 2 |
| #51 | Lehigh University | 1 |
| #51 | Villanova University | 2 |
| #55 | University of Washington | 1 |
| LAC #11 | Middlebury College | 1 |
| #62 | George Washington University | 2 |
| LAC #13 | Smith College | 1 |
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 |
| #67 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1 |
| #68 | St. Lawrence University | 1 |
| #72 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 1 |
| #72 | Southern Methodist University | 4 |
| LAC #15 | Hamilton College | 2 |
| #89 | Elon University | 1 |
| LAC #18 | Wesleyan University | 1 |
| LAC #24 | Colby College | 5 |
| Arizona State University | 1 | |
| #121 | University of Vermont | 1 |
| LAC #25 | Bates College | 1 |
| #137 | University of Kentucky | 1 |
| LAC #33 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 |
| LAC #37 | Bucknell University | 1 |
| LAC #39 | Denison University | 3 |
| LAC #39 | Lafayette College | 1 |
| LAC #39 | Trinity College | 1 |
| #219 | Sacred Heart University | 1 |
| #234 | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | 1 |
| LAC #51 | Dickinson College | 1 |
| LAC #55 | Connecticut College | 1 |
| Babson College | 2 | |
| Bryant University | 1 | |
| Endicott College | 1 | |
| McGill University | 1 | |
| Merrimack College | 1 | |
| Nichols College | 1 | |
| Oberlin College | 1 | |
| Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 2 | |
| Penn State University Park | 2 | |
| Providence College | 2 | |
| St. John's University | 1 | |
| United States Military Academy | 1 |
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 59 | 51 | 57 | 49 | 43 | ||
| #1 | Princeton University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #3 | Harvard College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #5 | Yale University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #7 | Duke University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #7 | California Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #9 | Brown University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #9 | Northwestern University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #12 | Columbia University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #12 | Cornell University | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| #12 | University of Chicago | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #20 | University of Notre Dame | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #22 | Georgetown University | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #24 | University of Virginia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #28 | University of California: San Diego | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #28 | University of California: Davis | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #28 | University of Southern California | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #33 | University of California: Irvine | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #35 | New York University | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 13 | |
| #35 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| #39 | Boston College | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 18 |
| #40 | University of Washington | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #40 | Tufts University | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 14 |
| #43 | Boston University | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | ||
| #47 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #47 | Lehigh University | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| #47 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #48 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #53 | Northeastern University | 3 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 19 | |
| #53 | College of William and Mary | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #53 | Purdue University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #60 | Brandeis University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #60 | Santa Clara University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #67 | Syracuse University | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| #67 | George Washington University | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #67 | Villanova University | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #67 | University of Miami | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #73 | Tulane University | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #76 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #82 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #86 | Marquette University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #89 | Fordham University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #89 | Southern Methodist University | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | ||
| #93 | University of Iowa | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #105 | Arizona State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #105 | American University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #115 | University of San Francisco | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #124 | University of Denver | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #124 | Fairfield University | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| #124 | University of South Carolina: Columbia | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | University of Vermont | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| #133 | Elon University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #133 | Miami University: Oxford | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #142 | Loyola University Chicago | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #159 | University of Kentucky | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #163 | St. John's University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #195 | University of Louisville | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #209 | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #209 | Sacred Heart University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #216 | Springfield College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #236 | Belmont University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #260 | Loyola University New Orleans | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #280 | Texas State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #361 | University of Montana | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Penn State University Park | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 26 | 33 | 23 | 27 | 26 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #2 | Amherst College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #4 | Wellesley College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #7 | United States Air Force Academy | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #9 | Bowdoin College | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #11 | Wesleyan University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #11 | Middlebury College | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #16 | Hamilton College | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #16 | Harvey Mudd College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Davidson College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Smith College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #21 | Colgate University | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | ||
| #21 | Washington and Lee University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #21 | Haverford College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #24 | Bates College | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | |
| #25 | University of Richmond | 3 | 2 | 5 | |||
| #25 | Colby College | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 | ||
| #27 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| #27 | Macalester College | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #30 | Bucknell University | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #30 | Lafayette College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | Scripps College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #38 | Skidmore College | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #39 | Denison University | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | ||
| #39 | Pitzer College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Trinity College | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| #39 | Kenyon College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #45 | Union College | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #46 | Connecticut College | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
| #46 | Dickinson College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #59 | St. Lawrence University | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | ||
| #63 | Gettysburg College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #67 | Reed College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #70 | Muhlenberg College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #70 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #73 | Lake Forest College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #116 | Saint Michael's College | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #174 | Marymount Manhattan College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| United States Military Academy | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Oberlin College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #1 | University of Toronto | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #3 | McGill University | 1 | 1 | ||||
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Environmental Science
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Spanish Literature and Culture
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Chemistry
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French Language and Culture
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Spanish Language and Culture
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Biology
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Environmental Science
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Spanish Literature and Culture
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Chemistry
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French Language and Culture
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Spanish Language and Culture
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United States History
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Calculus AB
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Chinese Language and Culture
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English Literature and Composition
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Latin
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Music Theory
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Statistics
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Physics 1
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Computer Science Principles
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Microeconomics
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Studio Art: 2-D Design
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Studio Art: 3-D Design
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Studio Art: Drawing
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Calculus BC
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Computer Science A
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United States Government and Politics
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Baseball
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Basketball
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Crew
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Cross Country
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Field Hockey
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American Football
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Baseball
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Basketball
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Crew
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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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Ice Hockey
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Lacrosse
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Soccer
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Softball
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Squash
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Tennis
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Volleyball
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Wrestling
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Acapella
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Art Association
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Ashburn Society
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Asian American Association
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Beatbox Club
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Brooks Brothers and Sisters
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Acapella
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Art Association
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Ashburn Society
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Asian American Association
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Beatbox Club
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Brooks Brothers and Sisters
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Brooks Improv Group (B.I.G.)
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Brooks School Radio (WBSR)
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Chapel Choir
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Chapel Fellowship
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Chess Club
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Community Service
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Dance
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Engineering
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Gay Straight Alliance
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Gospel Choir
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International Club
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International Student Club
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Jazz Band
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Jewish Student Organization
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Literacy Magazine
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Math Team
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Model UN
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Peer Tutoring
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Phillips Brooks Society
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Rock Bands
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Student Activities
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Student Newspaper
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Students Embracing Culture
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Tour Guides
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Yearbook
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Acting
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Chamber Choir
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Chorus
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Dance
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Jazz
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Music
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Acting
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Chamber Choir
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Chorus
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Dance
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Jazz
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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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Theater
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Vocal
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2D Studio Art
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3D Studio Art
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Animation
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Ceramics
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Digital Art
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Drawing
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Film
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Illustration
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Journal
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Painting
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Photography
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