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 | Columbia University | 1 + |
#2 | Harvard College | 1 + |
#5 | Yale University | 1 + |
LAC #1 | Williams College | 1 + |
#6 | Stanford University | 1 + |
#6 | University of Chicago | 1 + |
#8 | University of Pennsylvania | 1 + |
#9 | Duke University | 1 + |
#9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 + |
#9 | Northwestern University | 1 + |
LAC #2 | Amherst College | 1 + |
#13 | Dartmouth College | 1 + |
#14 | Brown University | 1 + |
#14 | Vanderbilt University | 1 + |
#14 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 + |
LAC #3 | Swarthmore College | 1 + |
#17 | Cornell University | 1 + |
#17 | Rice University | 1 + |
#19 | University of Notre Dame | 1 + |
#20 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 + |
LAC #4 | Pomona College | 1 + |
#21 | Emory University | 1 + |
#22 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 + |
#23 | Georgetown University | 1 + |
#23 | University of Michigan | 1 + |
#25 | University of Virginia | 1 + |
#27 | University of Southern California | 1 + |
#28 | New York University | 1 + |
#28 | Tufts University | 1 + |
#28 | Wake Forest University | 1 + |
LAC #6 | Bowdoin College | 1 + |
LAC #6 | United States Naval Academy | 1 + |
#34 | University of California: San Diego | 1 + |
#36 | Boston College | 1 + |
#38 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 + |
#40 | College of William and Mary | 1 + |
LAC #8 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 + |
#42 | Tulane University | 1 + |
#42 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 + |
LAC #9 | Carleton College | 1 + |
LAC #9 | Middlebury College | 1 + |
#55 | Santa Clara University | 1 + |
#59 | Syracuse University | 1 + |
#63 | University of Connecticut | 1 + |
LAC #13 | Davidson College | 1 + |
LAC #13 | Hamilton College | 1 + |
#68 | Fordham University | 1 + |
#68 | Southern Methodist University | 1 + |
#72 | Sarah Lawrence College | 1 + |
#79 | American University | 1 + |
LAC #16 | Haverford College | 1 + |
LAC #17 | Colby College | 1 + |
LAC #17 | Colgate University | 1 + |
LAC #17 | Wesleyan University | 1 + |
LAC #22 | Vassar College | 1 + |
#117 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 + |
#117 | University of Vermont | 1 + |
LAC #25 | Bates College | 1 + |
#127 | DePaul University | 1 + |
LAC #26 | Colorado College | 1 + |
LAC #30 | Kenyon College | 1 + |
LAC #35 | Pitzer College | 1 + |
LAC #36 | Oberlin College | 1 + |
LAC #38 | Bucknell University | 1 + |
LAC #38 | Lafayette College | 1 + |
LAC #38 | Skidmore College | 1 + |
#202 | University of North Carolina at Wilmington | 1 + |
LAC #45 | Union College | 1 + |
LAC #46 | Trinity College | 1 + |
LAC #50 | Connecticut College | 1 + |
Dalhousie University | 1 + | |
Dutchess Community College | 1 + | |
Imperial College London | 1 + | |
Ithaca College | 1 + | |
University of Edinburgh | 1 + | |
University of Oxford | 1 + | |
University of St. Andrews | 1 + | |
Wheaton College | 1 + |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2016-2020 | 2014-2018 | 2012-2016 | Total |
All schools | 43 | 197 | 199 | 203 | 201 | ||
#1 | Princeton University | 1 + | 4 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 31 |
#2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
#3 | Harvard College | 1 + | 18 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 77 |
#3 | Stanford University | 1 + | 6 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 31 |
#5 | Yale University | 1 + | 13 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 59 |
#6 | University of Pennsylvania | 1 + | 14 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 59 |
#7 | Duke University | 1 + | 12 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 30 |
#9 | Brown University | 1 + | 9 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 49 |
#9 | Northwestern University | 1 + | 8 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 29 |
#9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
#12 | University of Chicago | 1 + | 15 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 42 |
#12 | Cornell University | 1 + | 13 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 39 |
#12 | Columbia University | 1 + | 12 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 56 |
#15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
#15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#17 | Rice University | 1 + | 1 | 2 | |||
#18 | Vanderbilt University | 1 + | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 16 |
#18 | Dartmouth College | 1 + | 7 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 43 |
#20 | University of Notre Dame | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#21 | University of Michigan | 1 + | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 20 |
#22 | Georgetown University | 1 + | 7 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 22 |
#22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | ||
#24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | |
#24 | Emory University | 1 + | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 19 |
#24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 + | 4 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 31 |
#24 | University of Virginia | 1 + | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
#28 | University of California: San Diego | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#28 | University of Southern California | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
#33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
#35 | New York University | 1 + | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 14 |
#39 | Boston College | 1 + | 4 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 25 |
#40 | Tufts University | 1 + | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 14 |
#43 | Boston University | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
#47 | Wake Forest University | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
#47 | Lehigh University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#47 | University of Rochester | 1 | 1 | ||||
#53 | College of William and Mary | 1 + | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
#53 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#58 | University of Connecticut | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#60 | Santa Clara University | 1 + | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
#67 | Syracuse University | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#67 | University of Miami | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
#67 | George Washington University | 2 | 2 | ||||
#73 | Tulane University | 1 + | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 15 |
#89 | Southern Methodist University | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#89 | Fordham University | 1 + | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
#98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#105 | American University | 1 + | 1 | 2 | |||
#133 | University of Vermont | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
#151 | DePaul University | 1 + | 1 | 2 | |||
#201 | University of North Carolina at Wilmington | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2016-2020 | 2014-2018 | 2012-2016 | Total |
All schools | 29 | 65 | 60 | 46 | 46 | ||
#1 | Williams College | 1 + | 7 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 17 |
#2 | Amherst College | 1 + | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
#3 | United States Naval Academy | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#4 | Swarthmore College | 1 + | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
#4 | Pomona College | 1 + | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 14 |
#9 | Bowdoin College | 1 + | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 18 |
#9 | Carleton College | 1 + | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
#11 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 + | 1 | 2 | |||
#11 | Wesleyan University | 1 + | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
#11 | Middlebury College | 1 + | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 14 |
#16 | Davidson College | 1 + | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
#16 | Hamilton College | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | |
#16 | Vassar College | 1 + | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
#21 | Colgate University | 1 + | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
#21 | Haverford College | 1 + | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |
#24 | Bates College | 1 + | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
#25 | Colby College | 1 + | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
#27 | Macalester College | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
#30 | Lafayette College | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
#30 | Bucknell University | 1 + | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 14 |
#33 | Colorado College | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
#36 | Oberlin College | 1 + | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
#38 | Skidmore College | 1 + | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
#38 | Union College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#39 | Trinity College | 1 + | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
#39 | Kenyon College | 1 + | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
#39 | Pitzer College | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#45 | Union College | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#46 | Dickinson College | 1 | 1 | ||||
#46 | Connecticut College | 1 + | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
#56 | Wheaton College | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
#72 | Bard College | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | ||
#100 | Sarah Lawrence College | 1 + | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2016-2020 | 2014-2018 | 2012-2016 | Total |
All schools | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
#3 | McGill University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#12 | Dalhousie University | 1 + | 1 | 2 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2016-2020 | 2014-2018 | 2012-2016 | Total |
All schools | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
#1 | University of Oxford | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#4 | Imperial College London | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#5 | University of Edinburgh | 1 + | 1 | ||||
#33 | University of St. Andrews | 1 + | 1 |
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Crew
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Fitness
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Squash
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Wrestling
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Asian Cultural Society
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CENIC (Environmental Club)
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Debate Team
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Drama
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Entrepreneurship Club
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Jamaa
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Asian Cultural Society
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CENIC (Environmental Club)
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Debate Team
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Drama
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Entrepreneurship Club
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Jamaa
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Mathematics Team
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Model U.N.
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Pride Alliance
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Science Olympiad
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Student Government
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Art History
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Digital Art
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Drawing
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Painting
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Photography
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Sculpture
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Art History
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Digital Art
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Drawing
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Painting
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Photography
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Sculpture
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