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 |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | Princeton University | 1 |
| #3 | Stanford University | 1 |
| #3 | Yale University | 1 |
| #6 | University of Chicago | 1 |
| #7 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 |
| #10 | Duke University | 1 |
| #10 | Northwestern University | 1 |
| #12 | Dartmouth College | 1 |
| #13 | Brown University | 1 |
| #13 | Vanderbilt University | 1 |
| #15 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 |
| #17 | Cornell University | 1 |
| #18 | Columbia University | 1 |
| #20 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 |
| #20 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 |
| LAC #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 |
| #22 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 |
| #22 | Emory University | 1 |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 1 |
| #25 | New York University | 1 |
| #25 | University of Southern California | 1 |
| #25 | University of Virginia | 1 |
| LAC #5 | Wellesley College | 1 |
| #29 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 |
| #29 | Wake Forest University | 1 |
| LAC #6 | Bowdoin College | 1 |
| #32 | Tufts University | 1 |
| #32 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 |
| #36 | Boston College | 1 |
| #38 | University of California: Davis | 1 |
| #38 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 |
| #41 | Boston University | 1 |
| #44 | Brandeis University | 1 |
| #44 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 |
| #44 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #44 | Tulane University | 1 |
| #49 | University of Georgia | 1 |
| #51 | Lehigh University | 1 |
| #51 | Purdue University | 1 |
| #51 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 |
| #51 | Villanova University | 1 |
| #55 | Trinity University | 1 |
| LAC #11 | Middlebury College | 1 |
| LAC #11 | Washington and Lee University | 1 |
| #62 | George Washington University | 1 |
| #62 | Syracuse University | 1 |
| #62 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 |
| #62 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 1 |
| #63 | Agnes Scott College | 1 |
| #67 | University of Connecticut | 1 |
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 |
| #67 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1 |
| #70 | Wofford College | 1 |
| #72 | Fordham University | 1 |
| #72 | North Carolina State University | 1 |
| LAC #15 | Davidson College | 1 |
| LAC #15 | Hamilton College | 1 |
| #77 | Baylor University | 1 |
| #77 | Clemson University | 1 |
| #77 | Michigan State University | 1 |
| #83 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #85 | Washington College | 1 |
| #89 | Colorado School of Mines | 1 |
| #89 | Elon University | 1 |
| #89 | Howard University | 1 |
| LAC #18 | Colgate University | 1 |
| LAC #18 | University of Richmond | 1 |
| #94 | Hampden-Sydney College | 1 |
| Auburn University | 1 | |
| #102 | Hollins University | 1 |
| #105 | Miami University: Oxford | 1 |
| #105 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #107 | Randolph-Macon College | 1 |
| #111 | Goucher College | 1 |
| #115 | University of South Carolina: Columbia | 1 |
| #120 | Hampshire College | 1 |
| #120 | Roanoke College | 1 |
| LAC #24 | Colby College | 1 |
| #121 | University of Vermont | 1 |
| #130 | Eckerd College | 1 |
| #137 | George Mason University | 1 |
| #137 | University of Alabama | 1 |
| #149 | University of Mary Washington | 1 |
| #151 | James Madison University | 1 |
| #151 | University of Mississippi | 1 |
| LAC #31 | Kenyon College | 1 |
| LAC #33 | Pitzer College | 1 |
| #166 | Hofstra University | 1 |
| #166 | Virginia Commonwealth University | 1 |
| #176 | Catholic University of America | 1 |
| LAC #36 | Mount Holyoke College | 1 |
| LAC #37 | Bucknell University | 1 |
| LAC #39 | Denison University | 1 |
| LAC #39 | Lafayette College | 1 |
| #202 | Florida Institute of Technology | 1 |
| LAC #45 | DePauw University | 1 |
| LAC #45 | Furman University | 1 |
| #234 | East Carolina University | 1 |
| #234 | West Virginia University | 1 |
| LAC #51 | Dickinson College | 1 |
| LAC #51 | The University of the South | 1 |
| #299 | Old Dominion University | 1 |
| #299 | Shenandoah University | 1 |
| LAC #60 | Bard College | 1 |
| LAC #61 | Gettysburg College | 1 |
| Christopher Newport University | 1 | |
| Coastal Carolina University | 1 | |
| College of Charleston | 1 | |
| College of the Atlantic | 1 | |
| College of William and Mary | 1 | |
| Emerson College | 1 | |
| Emory & Henry College | 1 | |
| Flagler College | 1 | |
| Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | |
| High Point University | 1 | |
| Liberty University | 1 | |
| Longwood University | 1 | |
| McGill University | 1 | |
| Oberlin College | 1 | |
| Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 1 | |
| Penn State University Park | 1 | |
| Providence College | 1 | |
| Radford University | 1 | |
| Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | 1 | |
| Rutgers University | 1 | |
| Savannah College of Art and Design | 1 | |
| University of Edinburgh | 1 | |
| University of Maryland: College Park | 1 | |
| University of St. Andrews | 1 | |
| University of Tampa | 1 | |
| Warren Wilson College | 1 |
| Matriculation | |||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2017-2018 | Total |
| All schools | 78 | ||
| #1 | Princeton University | 1 | 1 |
| #3 | Stanford University | 1 | 1 |
| #5 | Yale University | 1 | 1 |
| #7 | Duke University | 1 | 1 |
| #9 | Northwestern University | 1 | 1 |
| #9 | Brown University | 1 | 1 |
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 | 1 |
| #12 | Cornell University | 1 | 1 |
| #12 | University of Chicago | 1 | 1 |
| #12 | Columbia University | 1 | 1 |
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 | 1 |
| #15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 | 1 |
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 1 | 1 |
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 1 | 1 |
| #22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 | 1 |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 1 | 1 |
| #24 | Emory University | 1 | 1 |
| #24 | University of Virginia | 1 | 1 |
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 | 1 |
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 | 1 |
| #28 | University of Southern California | 1 | 1 |
| #28 | University of California: Davis | 1 | 1 |
| #33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 |
| #35 | New York University | 1 | 1 |
| #35 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 | 1 |
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 | 1 |
| #39 | Boston College | 1 | 1 |
| #40 | Tufts University | 1 | 1 |
| #40 | Rutgers University | 1 | 1 |
| #43 | Boston University | 1 | 1 |
| #47 | University of Georgia | 1 | 1 |
| #47 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 1 | 1 |
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 1 | 1 |
| #47 | Lehigh University | 1 | 1 |
| #51 | Purdue University | 1 | 1 |
| #53 | College of William and Mary | 1 | 1 |
| #53 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 1 |
| #58 | University of Connecticut | 1 | 1 |
| #60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 1 |
| #60 | North Carolina State University | 1 | 1 |
| #60 | Michigan State University | 1 | 1 |
| #60 | Brandeis University | 1 | 1 |
| #67 | Villanova University | 1 | 1 |
| #67 | George Washington University | 1 | 1 |
| #67 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 | 1 |
| #67 | Syracuse University | 1 | 1 |
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 | 1 |
| #73 | Tulane University | 1 | 1 |
| #76 | Colorado School of Mines | 1 | 1 |
| #76 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 |
| #82 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 1 |
| #86 | Clemson University | 1 | 1 |
| #89 | Fordham University | 1 | 1 |
| #93 | Auburn University | 1 | 1 |
| #93 | Baylor University | 1 | 1 |
| #98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 |
| #105 | George Mason University | 1 | 1 |
| #115 | Howard University | 1 | 1 |
| #124 | James Madison University | 1 | 1 |
| #124 | University of South Carolina: Columbia | 1 | 1 |
| #133 | Miami University: Oxford | 1 | 1 |
| #133 | Elon University | 1 | 1 |
| #133 | University of Vermont | 1 | 1 |
| #137 | University of Alabama | 1 | 1 |
| #142 | Virginia Commonwealth University | 1 | 1 |
| #163 | University of Mississippi | 1 | 1 |
| #178 | Catholic University of America | 1 | 1 |
| #185 | Hofstra University | 1 | 1 |
| #195 | East Carolina University | 1 | 1 |
| #216 | West Virginia University | 1 | 1 |
| #269 | Florida Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 |
| #280 | Old Dominion University | 1 | 1 |
| #304 | Shenandoah University | 1 | 1 |
| #304 | Radford University | 1 | 1 |
| Liberty University | 1 | 1 | |
| University of Maryland: College Park | 1 | 1 | |
| Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 1 | 1 | |
| Penn State University Park | 1 | 1 | |
| Matriculation | |||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2017-2018 | Total |
| All schools | 38 | ||
| #4 | Wellesley College | 1 | 1 |
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 | 1 |
| #9 | Bowdoin College | 1 | 1 |
| #11 | Middlebury College | 1 | 1 |
| #16 | Hamilton College | 1 | 1 |
| #16 | Davidson College | 1 | 1 |
| #21 | Colgate University | 1 | 1 |
| #21 | Washington and Lee University | 1 | 1 |
| #25 | Colby College | 1 | 1 |
| #25 | University of Richmond | 1 | 1 |
| #30 | Bucknell University | 1 | 1 |
| #30 | Lafayette College | 1 | 1 |
| #34 | Mount Holyoke College | 1 | 1 |
| #35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | 1 |
| #39 | Kenyon College | 1 | 1 |
| #39 | Denison University | 1 | 1 |
| #39 | Pitzer College | 1 | 1 |
| #46 | Furman University | 1 | 1 |
| #46 | DePauw University | 1 | 1 |
| #46 | Dickinson College | 1 | 1 |
| #51 | The University of the South | 1 | 1 |
| #59 | Wofford College | 1 | 1 |
| #59 | Trinity University | 1 | 1 |
| #63 | Agnes Scott College | 1 | 1 |
| #63 | Gettysburg College | 1 | 1 |
| #72 | Bard College | 1 | 1 |
| #93 | Washington College | 1 | 1 |
| #107 | Randolph-Macon College | 1 | 1 |
| #116 | Hampden-Sydney College | 1 | 1 |
| #124 | Goucher College | 1 | 1 |
| #124 | Hollins University | 1 | 1 |
| #130 | Roanoke College | 1 | 1 |
| #130 | Eckerd College | 1 | 1 |
| #139 | Hampshire College | 1 | 1 |
| #154 | University of Mary Washington | 1 | 1 |
| #156 | College of the Atlantic | 1 | 1 |
| Oberlin College | 1 | 1 | |
| Warren Wilson College | 1 | 1 | |
| Matriculation | |||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2017-2018 | Total |
| All schools | 1 | ||
| #3 | McGill University | 1 | 1 |
| Matriculation | |||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2017-2018 | Total |
| All schools | 2 | ||
| #5 | University of Edinburgh | 1 | 1 |
| #33 | University of St. Andrews | 1 | 1 |
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Chemistry
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Environmental Science
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Calculus AB
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Latin
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Spanish Language and Culture
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Biology
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Chemistry
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Environmental Science
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Calculus AB
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Calculus BC
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European History
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United States History
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World History
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English Language and Composition
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English Literature and Composition
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Studio Art: 2-D Design
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French Language and Culture
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Spanish Literature and Culture
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Music Theory
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Dance
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Field Hockey
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Golf
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Soccer
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Swimming
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French
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Honor Council
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International
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French
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Prefect Club
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Honor Council
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International
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Latin
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Lit Mag
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Robotics
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Spanish
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Yearbook
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Guitar
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Music
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Music Theory
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Music
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Music Theory
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