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 | 11 |
| #3 | Harvard College | 17 |
| #3 | Stanford University | 10 |
| #3 | Yale University | 12 |
| LAC #1 | Williams College | 4 |
| #6 | University of Chicago | 10 |
| #7 | Johns Hopkins University | 3 |
| #7 | University of Pennsylvania | 15 |
| #10 | Duke University | 13 |
| #10 | Northwestern University | 8 |
| LAC #2 | Amherst College | 2 |
| #12 | Dartmouth College | 9 |
| #13 | Brown University | 6 |
| #13 | Vanderbilt University | 4 |
| #15 | Rice University | 1 |
| #15 | Washington University in St. Louis | 9 |
| LAC #3 | Pomona College | 1 |
| #17 | Cornell University | 14 |
| #18 | Columbia University | 7 |
| #18 | University of Notre Dame | 2 |
| #20 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 |
| #20 | University of California: Los Angeles | 2 |
| LAC #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 |
| #22 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 |
| #22 | Emory University | 4 |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 23 |
| #25 | New York University | 8 |
| #25 | University of Michigan | 12 |
| #25 | University of Southern California | 9 |
| #25 | University of Virginia | 19 |
| #29 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2 |
| #29 | Wake Forest University | 11 |
| LAC #6 | Bowdoin College | 1 |
| #32 | Tufts University | 3 |
| #32 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 2 |
| #34 | University of California: San Diego | 1 |
| #36 | Boston College | 19 |
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 6 |
| #38 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 5 |
| #41 | Boston University | 1 |
| #44 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #44 | Northeastern University | 2 |
| #44 | Tulane University | 3 |
| LAC #9 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 |
| #51 | Lehigh University | 2 |
| #51 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 |
| #51 | Spelman College | 1 |
| #51 | Villanova University | 8 |
| #55 | Santa Clara University | 4 |
| #55 | University of Miami | 4 |
| LAC #11 | Middlebury College | 2 |
| #62 | George Washington University | 2 |
| #62 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 |
| #67 | Texas A&M University | 1 |
| #67 | University of Connecticut | 5 |
| #68 | St. Lawrence University | 1 |
| #72 | Fordham University | 4 |
| #72 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 3 |
| #72 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 |
| #72 | Southern Methodist University | 6 |
| LAC #15 | Hamilton College | 3 |
| #77 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 |
| #89 | Elon University | 2 |
| #89 | Howard University | 1 |
| LAC #18 | Colgate University | 15 |
| LAC #18 | University of Richmond | 7 |
| LAC #18 | Wesleyan University | 1 |
| Auburn University | 1 | |
| #105 | Miami University: Oxford | 1 |
| #105 | University of Denver | 1 |
| #115 | Fairfield University | 1 |
| LAC #24 | Colby College | 4 |
| #121 | Temple University | 1 |
| #121 | University of Vermont | 1 |
| LAC #27 | Colorado College | 2 |
| LAC #33 | Pitzer College | 1 |
| #166 | Hofstra University | 1 |
| #166 | Quinnipiac University | 1 |
| LAC #37 | Bucknell University | 9 |
| LAC #39 | Denison University | 2 |
| LAC #39 | Skidmore College | 1 |
| LAC #39 | Trinity College | 5 |
| #202 | Springfield College | 1 |
| LAC #55 | Connecticut College | 1 |
| Babson College | 1 | |
| College of William and Mary | 3 | |
| Manhattanville College | 1 | |
| Marist College | 1 | |
| Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 1 | |
| Penn State University Park | 1 | |
| Providence College | 2 | |
| Santa Monica College | 1 | |
| Savannah College of Art and Design | 1 | |
| University of Colorado Boulder | 3 | |
| University of Edinburgh | 1 | |
| University of New Haven | 1 | |
| University of St. Andrews | 3 |
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2017-2021 | 2016-2020 | 2014-2018 | 2012-2016 | Total |
| All schools | 346 | 337 | 320 | 273 | 262 | ||
| #1 | Princeton University | 11 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 16 | 62 |
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2 | 3 | 5 | |||
| #3 | Harvard College | 17 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 67 |
| #3 | Stanford University | 10 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 41 |
| #5 | Yale University | 12 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 63 |
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 15 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 12 | 84 |
| #7 | Duke University | 13 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 61 |
| #9 | Brown University | 6 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 36 |
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 20 |
| #9 | Northwestern University | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 32 |
| #12 | Cornell University | 14 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 57 |
| #12 | Columbia University | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 19 | |
| #12 | University of Chicago | 10 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 46 |
| #15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| #17 | Rice University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 9 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 56 |
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 15 |
| #20 | University of Notre Dame | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 16 |
| #21 | University of Michigan | 12 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 53 |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 23 | 15 | 10 | 16 | 19 | 83 |
| #22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #24 | Emory University | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 14 |
| #24 | University of Virginia | 19 | 19 | 16 | 16 | 19 | 89 |
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 9 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 51 |
| #28 | University of Southern California | 9 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 33 |
| #28 | University of California: San Diego | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #35 | New York University | 8 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 37 |
| #35 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | |
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 5 | 1 | 6 | |||
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 23 |
| #39 | Boston College | 19 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 84 |
| #40 | Tufts University | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 21 |
| #43 | Boston University | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 16 |
| #47 | Texas A&M University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #47 | University of Rochester | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 11 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 42 |
| #47 | Lehigh University | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| #53 | Northeastern University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #53 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #53 | College of William and Mary | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 13 | |
| #58 | University of Connecticut | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
| #60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| #60 | Santa Clara University | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 | ||
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #67 | George Washington University | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
| #67 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #67 | University of Miami | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 18 |
| #67 | Syracuse University | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 14 | |
| #67 | Villanova University | 8 | 6 | 4 | 18 | ||
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| #73 | Tulane University | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 15 | |
| #76 | Pepperdine University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #79 | Brigham Young University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #89 | Temple University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #89 | Fordham University | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
| #89 | Southern Methodist University | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 36 |
| #93 | Auburn University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #93 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #103 | University of California: Santa Cruz | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #105 | American University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 | |
| #115 | Howard University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #124 | Fairfield University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #124 | University of Denver | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #133 | University of Vermont | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| #133 | Miami University: Oxford | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |
| #133 | Elon University | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #142 | Clark University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #142 | Loyola University Chicago | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #151 | DePaul University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #170 | Quinnipiac University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #178 | Catholic University of America | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #185 | Hofstra University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #216 | Springfield College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Penn State University Park | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2017-2021 | 2016-2020 | 2014-2018 | 2012-2016 | Total |
| All schools | 68 | 89 | 98 | 105 | 91 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 30 |
| #2 | Amherst College | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 13 |
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| #4 | Wellesley College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| #4 | Pomona College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #9 | Bowdoin College | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 15 |
| #9 | Carleton College | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | ||
| #11 | Barnard College | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #11 | Middlebury College | 2 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 29 |
| #11 | Wesleyan University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| #11 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | |
| #16 | Hamilton College | 3 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 29 | |
| #16 | Davidson College | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #16 | Smith College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Harvey Mudd College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Vassar College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #21 | Colgate University | 15 | 16 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 63 |
| #21 | Washington and Lee University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #24 | Bates College | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #25 | Colby College | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 20 |
| #25 | University of Richmond | 7 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 37 | |
| #27 | Macalester College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| #27 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | |
| #30 | Bucknell University | 9 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 51 |
| #30 | Lafayette College | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | |
| #33 | Colorado College | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 17 |
| #35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #36 | Oberlin College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #38 | Skidmore College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| #38 | Union College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Spelman College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Pitzer College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Kenyon College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #39 | Denison University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #39 | Trinity College | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 17 |
| #46 | Dickinson College | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #46 | Connecticut College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| #56 | Rhodes College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #56 | Wheaton College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #59 | St. Lawrence University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #63 | Gettysburg College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #70 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | ||
| #139 | Hampshire College | 1 | 1 | ||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2017-2021 | 2016-2020 | 2014-2018 | 2012-2016 | Total |
| All schools | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #5 | University of Edinburgh | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #33 | University of St. Andrews | 3 | 3 | ||||
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