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 | 2 |
| #2 | Harvard College | 1 |
| #5 | Yale University | 1 + |
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 |
| #9 | Northwestern University | 7 |
| #14 | Vanderbilt University | 4 |
| #17 | Rice University | 1 |
| #19 | University of Notre Dame | 1 |
| #20 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 |
| #23 | Georgetown University | 1 |
| #23 | University of Michigan | 9 |
| #25 | Carnegie Mellon University | 4 |
| #27 | University of Southern California | 7 |
| #28 | New York University | 7 |
| #28 | University of Florida | 1 |
| #28 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 |
| #34 | University of Rochester | 1 |
| #42 | Boston University | 3 |
| LAC #9 | Carleton College | 1 |
| #47 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 |
| #49 | Pepperdine University | 2 |
| #51 | Spelman College | 1 |
| #55 | University of Miami | 4 |
| #57 | Penn State University Park | 1 |
| #59 | University of Washington | 1 |
| #62 | Rutgers University | 1 |
| #63 | George Washington University | 1 |
| #68 | Indiana University Bloomington | 5 |
| #68 | Kalamazoo College | 1 |
| #72 | Reed College | 1 |
| #72 | Sarah Lawrence College | 3 |
| #75 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 1 |
| #79 | American University | 1 |
| #81 | Earlham College | 1 |
| #83 | Elon University | 1 |
| #83 | Howard University | 1 |
| #83 | Michigan State University | 1 |
| #83 | University of Iowa | 1 |
| #84 | Bennington College | 4 |
| LAC #17 | Barnard College | 1 |
| #93 | University of Denver | 2 |
| #103 | Drexel University | 1 |
| #103 | Loyola University Chicago | 1 |
| #103 | Miami University: Oxford | 1 |
| #103 | University of Arizona | 1 |
| #104 | University of Tennessee: Knoxville | 2 |
| #117 | University of Vermont | 1 |
| #127 | DePaul University | 3 |
| #127 | University of Oklahoma | 1 |
| #130 | Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts | 1 |
| #137 | University of Alabama | 1 |
| #148 | Duquesne University | 1 |
| #148 | University of Cincinnati | 1 |
| LAC #30 | Kenyon College | 1 |
| #151 | Marymount Manhattan College | 2 |
| #166 | Hofstra University | 1 |
| LAC #36 | Oberlin College | 3 |
| #182 | Montclair State University | 1 |
| #182 | Ohio University | 1 |
| LAC #38 | Skidmore College | 1 |
| #202 | Loyola University New Orleans | 1 |
| #212 | Ball State University | 1 |
| #234 | University of Hartford | 1 |
| #263 | Point Park University | 1 |
| #285 | University of New England | 1 |
| #285 | Western Michigan University | 1 |
| #299 | Middle Tennessee State University | 1 |
| #317 | Arkansas State University | 1 |
| Alfred University | 1 | |
| amda college and conservatory of the performing arts, los angeles campus | 5 | |
| Art Center College of Design | 1 | |
| Berklee College of Music | 14 | |
| Boston Conservatory at Berklee | 11 | |
| Butler University | 1 | |
| California Institute of the Arts | 3 | |
| California Polytechnic State University: San Luis Obispo | 1 | |
| Cleveland Institute of Music | 5 | |
| Coastal Carolina University | 1 | |
| Columbia College Chicago | 2 | |
| Concordia University | 1 | |
| Conservatorium van Amsterdam | 1 | |
| Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | 1 | |
| Curtis Institute of Music | 1 | |
| Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester | 7 | |
| Fashion Institute of Technology | 1 | |
| Glasgow School of Art | 1 | |
| Glenn Gould School | 1 | |
| Hartt School | 2 | |
| Istituto Marangoni, Milano | 1 | |
| Johns Hopkins University: Peabody Conservatory of Music | 1 | |
| Kennesaw State University | 1 | |
| Lewis University | 1 | |
| Liverpool Institute for | 1 | |
| los angeles film school | 1 | |
| Lynn University | 1 | |
| Manhattan School of Music | 8 | |
| Maryland Institute College of Art | 1 | |
| Massachusetts College of Art and Design | 1 + | |
| Minneapolis College of Art and Design | 1 | |
| MODUL University Vienna | 1 | |
| Nashville Ballet | 1 | |
| New England Conservatory of Music | 1 + | |
| Pacific Lutheran University | 1 | |
| Rhode Island School of Design | 2 | |
| Rider University | 1 | |
| Royal Conservatory | 1 | |
| San Francisco Conservatory of Music | 7 | |
| Savannah College of Art and Design | 1 | |
| School of the Art Institute of Chicago | 4 | |
| Slade School of Fine Arts | 1 | |
| Stetson University | 1 | |
| Texas State University | 1 | |
| the colburn school conservatory of music | 1 | |
| The New School College of Performing Arts | 4 | |
| University College of London | 1 | |
| University of Colorado Denver | 1 | |
| University of Essex | 1 | |
| University of North Carolina at Asheville | 1 | |
| University of North Carolina School of the Arts | 1 | |
| University of the Arts | 2 | |
| University of Toronto | 1 | |
| Warren Wilson College | 1 | |
| Wright State University | 1 + | |
| Wright State University Main | 1 |
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2017 | 2016 | 2014 | Total |
| All schools | 110 | 46 | 54 | 5 | 13 | ||
| #1 | Princeton University | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 + | 3 | ||
| #3 | Harvard College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #3 | Stanford University | 1 admitted | 1 + | 2 | |||
| #5 | Yale University | 1 + | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #9 | Northwestern University | 7 | 1 admitted | 2 | 1 +admitted | 11 | |
| #12 | University of Chicago | 1 + | 1 | ||||
| #12 | Columbia University | 2 | 1 admitted | 2 | 5 | ||
| #12 | Cornell University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #17 | Rice University | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | 5 | ||
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 4 | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 + | 7 | |
| #20 | University of Notre Dame | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #21 | University of Michigan | 9 | 1 admitted | 11 | 1 +admitted | 22 | |
| #22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #22 | Georgetown University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #24 | Emory University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 4 | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 + | 7 | |
| #24 | University of Virginia | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 + | 3 | ||
| #28 | University of California: Davis | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #28 | University of Southern California | 7 | 1 admitted | 2 | 1 + | 11 | |
| #28 | University of Florida | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | New York University | 7 | 1 admitted | 5 | 1 + | 14 | |
| #40 | University of Washington | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #40 | Rutgers University | 1 | 1 +admitted | 2 | |||
| #43 | Boston University | 3 | 1 admitted | 1 + | 5 | ||
| #47 | University of Georgia | 1 | 1 + | 2 | |||
| #47 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #47 | University of Rochester | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #47 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #49 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #53 | Florida State University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #53 | University of Minnesota: Twin Cities | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #57 | Penn State University Park | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #60 | Michigan State University | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 +admitted | 1 + | 4 | |
| #67 | University of Miami | 4 | 1 admitted | 4 | 9 | ||
| #67 | Syracuse University | 1 admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #67 | George Washington University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 5 | 1 admitted | 2 | 8 | ||
| #76 | Pepperdine University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #89 | Fordham University | 1 admitted | 3 | 1 + | 5 | ||
| #93 | Baylor University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #93 | University of Iowa | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | Drexel University | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #105 | George Mason University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 1 admitted | 3 | 1 +admitted | 5 | ||
| #105 | American University | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #105 | University of Tennessee: Knoxville | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #115 | University of Arizona | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #115 | Howard University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #124 | University of Denver | 2 | 1 | 1 + | 4 | ||
| #124 | University of Oklahoma | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | University of Vermont | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | Miami University: Oxford | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #133 | Elon University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #137 | University of Alabama | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #142 | University of Cincinnati | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #142 | Loyola University Chicago | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #151 | DePaul University | 3 | 1 admitted | 4 | |||
| #151 | Duquesne University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #163 | Montclair State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #178 | Ohio University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #185 | Hofstra University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #201 | The New School College of Performing Arts | 4 | 1 admitted | 5 | |||
| #216 | West Virginia University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #216 | Ball State University | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #236 | Belmont University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #249 | Pace University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #260 | University of New England | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #260 | Loyola University New Orleans | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #269 | University of Missouri: Kansas City | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #280 | Texas State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #280 | Oklahoma City University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #304 | Florida Gulf Coast University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #304 | University of Hartford | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #304 | Middle Tennessee State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #304 | Western Michigan University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #352 | Point Park University | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #352 | University of Northern Colorado | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #361 | Arkansas State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #382 | Northern Kentucky University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| Wright State University | 1 + | 1 | |||||
| Kennesaw State University | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2017 | 2016 | 2014 | Total |
| All schools | 23 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | ||
| #9 | Carleton College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #11 | Barnard College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #11 | Middlebury College | 1 admitted | 1 + | 2 | |||
| #24 | Bates College | 1 + | 1 | ||||
| #34 | Mount Holyoke College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | Occidental College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #36 | Oberlin College | 3 | 1 admitted | 4 | |||
| #38 | Skidmore College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Kenyon College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Spelman College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #51 | The University of the South | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #51 | St. Olaf College | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #67 | Reed College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #70 | Kalamazoo College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #72 | Bard College | 1 admitted | 1 + | 2 | |||
| #75 | Lawrence University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #100 | Earlham College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #100 | Sarah Lawrence College | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #112 | Bennington College | 4 | 1 admitted | 5 | |||
| #121 | Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #130 | Eckerd College | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #139 | Hampshire College | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #139 | University of North Carolina at Asheville | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #174 | Marymount Manhattan College | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Warren Wilson College | 1 | 1 | |||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2017 | 2016 | 2014 | Total |
| All schools | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #1 | University of Toronto | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #21 | Concordia University | 1 | 1 | ||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2017 | 2016 | 2014 | Total |
| All schools | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #33 | University of St. Andrews | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #41 | Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL) | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #48 | University of Essex | 1 | 1 | ||||
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AAPI Affinity Group
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Interlochen Christian Fellowship
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Quiz Bowl
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Model United Nations
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