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Matriculation A
Academics A
Extracurriculars B+
Community A
Reviews B
At Crystal Springs Uplands School we believe that students learn best in an environment that promotes learning in diverse ways about a complex world; stimulates intellectual and creative development; nurtures the individual within a community of mutual trust, caring, and respect; and balances academic and extracurricular interests and accomplishments. We encourage critical thinking and intellectual risk-taking; responsibility for one's ideas and actions; personal integrity, ethical awareness, and multicultural understanding; individual leadership and cooperative interaction; and respect for one's self and for the views of other. We endeavor to equip students with a spirit of inquiry; a respect for human potential; a sense of responsibility for the environment and to the global community; and a feeling of joy in lifelong learning.
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School Stats

Average
Current School
Tuition
$60850
Enrollment
568
International Students
0.7%
Teacher-Student Ratio
1:9
Endowment
$30 millions
AP
14
Average SAT Score
1468
Average ACT Score
33
Class Size
14

Matriculation

Matriculation

(2020-2023)
Ranking University/College Students
#1 Princeton University 1 +
#2 Columbia University 1 +
#2 Harvard College 1 +
#2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1 +
#5 Yale University 1 +
#6 Stanford University 1 +
#6 University of Chicago 1 +
#8 University of Pennsylvania 1 +
#9 Duke 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 Carnegie Mellon University 1 +
#25 University of Virginia 1 +
LAC #5 Wellesley College 1 +
#27 University of Southern California 1 +
#28 New York University 1 +
#28 Tufts University 1 +
#28 University of California: Santa Barbara 1 +
#28 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1 +
#28 Wake Forest University 1 +
#34 University of California: San Diego 1 +
#34 University of Rochester 1 +
#36 Boston College 1 +
#36 University of California: Irvine 1 +
#38 Georgia Institute of Technology 1 +
#38 University of California: Davis 1 +
#42 Boston University 1 +
#42 Case Western Reserve University 1 +
#42 Tulane University 1 +
LAC #9 Carleton College 1 +
LAC #9 Middlebury College 1 +
#48 University of Georgia 1 +
#49 Lehigh University 1 +
#49 Northeastern University 1 +
#49 Ohio State University: Columbus Campus 1 +
#49 Purdue University 1 +
#55 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1 +
#55 Santa Clara University 1 +
LAC #11 Washington and Lee University 1 +
#57 Penn State University Park 1 +
#59 University of Washington 1 +
#63 University of Connecticut 1 +
#63 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1 +
LAC #13 Hamilton College 1 +
#68 Fordham University 1 +
#68 Indiana University Bloomington 1 +
#68 Southern Methodist University 1 +
#70 Virginia Military Institute 1 +
#72 Reed College 1 +
#75 Loyola Marymount University 1 +
#79 American University 1 +
LAC #16 Haverford College 1 +
#83 University of California: Riverside 1 +
LAC #17 Barnard College 1 +
LAC #17 Colby College 1 +
LAC #17 Smith College 1 +
LAC #17 Wesleyan University 1 +
#103 Drexel University 1 +
#103 University of San Francisco 1 +
#104 University of California: Merced 1 +
LAC #22 University of Richmond 1 +
Arizona State University 1 +
#122 Chapman University 1 +
LAC #25 Bates College 1 +
#127 DePaul University 1 +
LAC #26 Colorado College 1 +
LAC #30 Bryn Mawr College 1 +
LAC #30 Mount Holyoke College 1 +
LAC #30 Scripps College 1 +
#151 Colorado State University 1 +
LAC #35 Pitzer College 1 +
LAC #36 Oberlin College 1 +
LAC #38 Lafayette College 1 +
LAC #42 Occidental College 1 +
#234 San Francisco State University 1 +
Babson College 1 +
Boise State University 1 +
California Polytechnic State University: San Luis Obispo 1 +
College of San Mateo 1 +
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University: Daytona Beach Campus 1 +
McGill University 1 +
Otterbein University 1 +
Pratt Institute 1 +
San Jose State University 1 +
Sonoma State University 1 +
St. John's College 1 +
University of Bristol 1 +
University of St. Andrews 1 +
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Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2020-2023 2019-2022 2018-2021 2016-2019 2015-2018 Total
All schools 65 59 60 51 48
#1 Princeton University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#3 Harvard College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#3 Stanford University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#5 Yale University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#6 University of Pennsylvania 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#7 California Institute of Technology 1 + 1 + 2
#7 Duke University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#9 Johns Hopkins University 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 4
#9 Brown University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#9 Northwestern University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#12 University of Chicago 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 4
#12 Columbia University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#12 Cornell University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#15 University of California: Los Angeles 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#15 University of California: Berkeley 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#17 Rice University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#18 Vanderbilt University 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#18 Dartmouth College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#20 University of Notre Dame 1 + 1 1 + 3
#21 University of Michigan 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#22 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1 + 1
#22 Georgetown University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#24 University of Virginia 1 + 1 2
#24 Emory University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#24 Carnegie Mellon University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#24 Washington University in St. Louis 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#28 University of Southern California 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#28 University of California: San Diego 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#28 University of California: Davis 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#33 University of California: Irvine 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#33 Georgia Institute of Technology 1 + 1 1 + 3
#35 University of California: Santa Barbara 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#35 University of Wisconsin-Madison 1 + 1
#35 New York University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#38 University of Texas at Austin 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#39 Boston College 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 4
#40 Tufts University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#40 University of Washington 1 + 1 + 2
#43 Boston University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#47 University of Rochester 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#47 Lehigh University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#47 Wake Forest University 1 + 1 1 + 3
#47 University of Georgia 1 + 1 1 + 3
#49 Ohio State University: Columbus Campus 1 + 1
#49 Purdue University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#53 Case Western Reserve University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#53 Northeastern University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#57 Penn State University Park 1 + 1
#58 University of Connecticut 1 + 1 2
#60 Santa Clara University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#60 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1 + 1 1 + 3
#67 Syracuse University 1 + 1
#67 University of Miami 1 + 1
#67 George Washington University 1 + 1
#73 Tulane University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#73 Indiana University Bloomington 1 + 1 1 + 3
#82 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#83 University of California: Riverside 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#89 Fordham University 1 + 1 1 + 3
#89 Southern Methodist University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#93 Loyola Marymount University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#98 Texas Christian University 1 + 1
#98 University of Oregon 1 + 1
#98 Rochester Institute of Technology 1 1 + 1 + 3
#98 Drexel University 1 + 1
#103 University of California: Santa Cruz 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#104 University of California: Merced 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#105 University of Colorado Boulder 1 + 1 + 2
#105 Arizona State University 1 + 1 1 + 3
#105 American University 1 + 1 1 + 3
#115 University of San Francisco 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#124 University of Denver 1 1 + 1 + 3
#133 Miami University: Oxford 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#133 Chapman University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#151 DePaul University 1 + 1 1 + 3
#151 Colorado State University 1 + 1
#178 San Francisco State University 1 + 1 2
#332 Boise State University 1 + 1 1 + 3
Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2020-2023 2019-2022 2018-2021 2016-2019 2015-2018 Total
All schools 26 30 29 25 26
#1 Williams College 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 4
#2 Amherst College 1 + 1 1 + 3
#3 United States Naval Academy 1 + 1
#4 Swarthmore College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#4 Wellesley College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#4 Pomona College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#9 Carleton College 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#9 Bowdoin College 1 + 1 + 2
#11 Wesleyan University 1 + 1 2
#11 Middlebury College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#11 Claremont McKenna College 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#11 Barnard College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#16 Davidson College 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 4
#16 Hamilton College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#16 Harvey Mudd College 1 + 1 + 2
#16 Smith College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#21 Haverford College 1 + 1 1 + 3
#21 Colgate University 1 1 + 1 + 3
#21 Washington and Lee University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#24 Bates College 1 + 1 1 + 3
#25 University of Richmond 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#25 Colby College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#27 Macalester College 1 1 + 1 + 3
#30 Lafayette College 1 + 1 1 + 3
#30 Bryn Mawr College 1 + 1 2
#30 Bucknell University 1 + 1
#33 Colorado College 1 + 1 1 + 3
#34 Mount Holyoke College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#35 Scripps College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#35 Occidental College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#36 Oberlin College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#38 Union College 1 + 1
#39 Pitzer College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#46 Whitman College 1 + 1
#46 Connecticut College 1 + 1 + 2
#63 Virginia Military Institute 1 + 1 1 + 3
#67 Reed College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#75 St. John's College 1 + 1 1 + 3
#86 Beloit College 1 + 1
#89 University of Puget Sound 1 + 1
#89 Southwestern University 1 + 1
#112 Bennington College 1 1 + 1 + 3
Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2020-2023 2019-2022 2018-2021 2016-2019 2015-2018 Total
All schools 1 1 1 0 0
#3 McGill University 1 + 1 1 + 3
Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2020-2023 2019-2022 2018-2021 2016-2019 2015-2018 Total
All schools 2 1 0 0 0
#10 University of Bristol 1 + 1
#33 University of St. Andrews 1 + 1 2

Academics

AP

(14)
French Language and Culture
Spanish Language and Culture
Spanish Literature and Culture
Biology
Chemistry
Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
French Language and Culture
Spanish Language and Culture
Spanish Literature and Culture
Biology
Chemistry
Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Computer Science A
European History
United States Government and Politics
United States History
English Literature and Composition
Music Theory
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Sports

(14)
Badminton
Baseball
Basketball
Beach Volleyball
Cross Country
American Football
Badminton
Baseball
Basketball
Beach Volleyball
Cross Country
American Football
Golf
Lacrosse
Sailing
Soccer
Swimming
Tennis
Track and Field
Volleyball
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Extracurricular Activities and Clubs

(34)
Artificial Intelligence Club
Christian Club
Cinema studies
Clap Club
Conspiracy Theory Club，Cooking for Causes，Crafts for Causes
Crystal Chess Club，Crystal Couture Fashion Club
Artificial Intelligence Club
Christian Club
Cinema studies
Clap Club
Conspiracy Theory Club，Cooking for Causes，Crafts for Causes
Crystal Chess Club，Crystal Couture Fashion Club
Crystal Productions
Crystal Visions
Crystal Visual Arts
Cultural Movie Club
Dance Team
Debate Club
Drama Club
Electronic Sound Design
Expressions with TED
Fencing Club
French Club
Future Business Leaders of America
Gender Sexuality Alliance
Green Team
Gryphon Business
Helping Hand Club
Hispanic/Latiné/x Club
Jew Crew
Kinetics
Kerbal Space Program
Neurology Club
Nintendo Fun Club
Polynesian Culture Club
Pre-Med Club
Quiz Bowl Club
Robotics
Soccer Club
Animal Welfare Club，Arduino Club，Asian Culture Club，Band Club/Performances for Causes，Biomedical Res
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Arts

(3)
Music Theory
Production
Studio Art

Contact Info

https://www.crystal.org/
400 Uplands Drive, Hillsborough, CA, 94010
650-342-4175
admission@csus.org
California

Basic Info

Co-ed
Day S. Grades: 6-12
Urban
ESL: No
Year Founded: 1952
Campus Size: 10 acres
Religious Affiliation: No Religious Affiliation

Application Info

Deadline: 01/12
Interview: On Campus
Other Accepted Scores: ISEE
School Code:
SSAT: 2675
ISEE: 51173
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Frequently Ask Questions about Crystal Springs Uplands School

Tell me a bit about Crystal Springs Uplands School.
Crystal Springs Uplands School is Co-ed private day school located in California, US. It was founded 1952 , and currently has about 568 students, 0.70% of whom are international students.

For more official information, please visit https://www.crystal.org/.
Does Crystal Springs Uplands School have rigorous academic requirements?
Crystal Springs Uplands School is offering 14 AP courses.

Where do Crystal Springs Uplands School students typically go for their colleges?
Based on the most recent matriculation data, 3.92% go to top 50 US universities and colleges*, 7.53% go to top 25, and about 2.41% go to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT.

*Ranking is based on the 2024 US News College Ranking.
What is the application requirement for Crystal Springs Uplands School?
Similar to most private schools in the US, Crystal Springs Uplands School’s typical admission requirements include school transcript, recommendation letter, application essay, and interview (often optional, but highly recommended).
What is the latest tuition for Crystal Springs Uplands School’s Co-ed student?
The total fee for Crystal Springs Uplands School in 2024 is $60,850 which typically includes tuition, boarding fee, student management fee and a few other fees associated with managing international students.

For more information, please contact school’s admission team at admission@csus.org .
Where is Crystal Springs Uplands School located?
Crystal Springs Uplands School is located in the State of California of USA. The closest major city is San Francisco, which is about 15 miles away from school. Most families can choose San Francisco International Airport to travel in and out of school.
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Also it is highly recommended to visit Crystal Springs Uplands School’s official site: https://www.crystal.org/ or call them at 650-342-4175.
Please share a few nearby schools that are close to Crystal Springs Uplands School?
Yes, here are few: St. Matthew Catholic School-CA, Stanbridge Academy and Junipero Serra High School.

The closest major city is San Francisco. You can find out more schools near San Francisco here.
What is the FindingSchool rating for Crystal Springs Uplands School?
The overall rating for Crystal Springs Uplands School is A-.

The section ratings of Crystal Springs Uplands School are:
A for Matriculation
A for Academics
B+ for Extracurriculum
A for Community
B for Students and Parents reviews

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San Francisco, California
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Population (2022) 808,976
Cost of Living Higher than average 89%
Nearby Airport San Francisco International Airport

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