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 | 2 |
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #3 | Harvard College | 1 |
| LAC #1 | Williams College | 1 |
| #7 | Johns Hopkins University | 3 |
| #7 | University of Pennsylvania | 3 |
| #10 | Duke University | 1 |
| #10 | Northwestern University | 2 |
| #13 | Brown University | 1 |
| #15 | Washington University in St. Louis | 3 |
| #17 | Cornell University | 3 |
| #18 | Columbia University | 1 |
| #18 | University of Notre Dame | 1 |
| LAC #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 |
| #22 | Carnegie Mellon University | 3 |
| #22 | Emory University | 2 |
| #25 | New York University | 7 |
| #25 | University of Michigan | 1 |
| #25 | University of Southern California | 1 |
| #25 | University of Virginia | 2 |
| #29 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2 |
| #29 | Wake Forest University | 6 |
| LAC #6 | Carleton College | 1 |
| #32 | Tufts University | 2 |
| #34 | University of California: San Diego | 1 |
| #36 | Boston College | 1 |
| #36 | University of Rochester | 2 |
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 |
| #38 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 |
| #41 | Boston University | 4 |
| #44 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 |
| #44 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #44 | Northeastern University | 2 |
| #44 | Tulane University | 3 |
| #51 | Lehigh University | 1 |
| #51 | Purdue University | 3 |
| #51 | Villanova University | 4 |
| #55 | University of Miami | 1 |
| #55 | University of Washington | 1 |
| #62 | George Washington University | 1 |
| #62 | Syracuse University | 4 |
| #62 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 |
| LAC #13 | Smith College | 1 |
| #72 | American University | 1 |
| #72 | Fordham University | 4 |
| #72 | Indiana University Bloomington | 3 |
| #72 | North Carolina State University | 2 |
| LAC #15 | Davidson College | 3 |
| #76 | College of Wooster | 1 |
| #76 | Muhlenberg College | 2 |
| #83 | Gonzaga University | 1 |
| #83 | Marquette University | 1 |
| #89 | Brigham Young University | 1 |
| #89 | Elon University | 2 |
| SUNY University at Buffalo | 1 | |
| #89 | Texas Christian University | 1 |
| #89 | University of Delaware | 3 |
| #89 | Ursinus College | 2 |
| LAC #18 | Haverford College | 2 |
| #94 | Lewis & Clark College | 1 |
| #97 | University of South Florida | 1 |
| #100 | Saint Mary's College | 1 |
| #105 | Drexel University | 3 |
| #105 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 2 |
| #105 | Saint Louis University | 1 |
| #105 | University of Denver | 1 |
| #105 | University of Utah | 1 |
| #111 | Goucher College | 1 |
| #111 | Ohio Wesleyan University | 2 |
| #115 | University of South Carolina: Columbia | 1 |
| Arizona State University | 1 | |
| #121 | Temple University | 1 |
| #121 | University of Vermont | 1 |
| LAC #27 | Macalester College | 2 |
| #137 | DePaul University | 2 |
| #137 | University of New Hampshire | 1 |
| #151 | James Madison University | 3 |
| LAC #31 | Bryn Mawr College | 2 |
| LAC #31 | Kenyon College | 2 |
| LAC #33 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 |
| #166 | Xavier University | 1 |
| #176 | Catholic University of America | 2 |
| LAC #36 | Mount Holyoke College | 1 |
| #182 | Adelphi University | 1 |
| LAC #37 | Bucknell University | 1 |
| LAC #37 | Occidental College | 1 |
| LAC #39 | Denison University | 1 |
| LAC #39 | Lafayette College | 3 |
| #202 | La Salle University | 1 |
| LAC #45 | Furman University | 1 |
| #234 | East Carolina University | 1 |
| #234 | Oklahoma City University | 1 |
| #234 | University of Hartford | 1 |
| #234 | West Virginia University | 1 |
| #250 | West Chester University of Pennsylvania | 3 |
| LAC #51 | Dickinson College | 4 |
| #263 | Point Park University | 1 |
| #317 | Alvernia University | 1 |
| Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania | 1 | |
| Coastal Carolina University | 2 | |
| College of Charleston | 1 | |
| Concordia University | 1 | |
| Culinary Institute of America | 1 | |
| Delaware Valley University | 1 | |
| Eastern University | 1 | |
| Elizabethtown College | 1 | |
| Elmira College | 1 | |
| Emerson College | 1 | |
| Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | |
| High Point University | 5 | |
| Lebanon Valley College | 1 | |
| Loyola University Maryland | 1 | |
| Marywood University | 1 | |
| McGill University | 1 | |
| Mercyhurst University | 1 | |
| Millersville University of Pennsylvania | 5 | |
| Monmouth University | 2 | |
| Nebraska Wesleyan University | 1 | |
| Parsons The New School for Design | 1 | |
| Penn State Berks | 1 | |
| Penn State Harrisburg | 2 | |
| Penn State University Park | 1 | |
| pennsylvania college of health sciences | 1 | |
| Queens University of Charlotte | 2 | |
| Rhode Island School of Design | 1 | |
| Robert Morris University: Chicago | 2 | |
| Saint Joseph's University | 1 | |
| Savannah College of Art and Design | 2 | |
| Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania | 1 | |
| Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania | 1 | |
| Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology | 1 | |
| University of British Columbia | 1 | |
| University of Maryland: College Park | 1 | |
| University of Scranton | 1 | |
| University of Tennessee: Knoxville | 3 | |
| Wilfrid Laurier University | 1 | |
| York College of Pennsylvania | 1 |
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2018-2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | Total |
| All schools | 139 | 36 | 33 | 35 | 25 | ||
| #1 | Princeton University | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #3 | Harvard College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 3 | 3 | 6 | |||
| #7 | Duke University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 3 | 2 | 5 | |||
| #9 | Brown University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #9 | Northwestern University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #12 | Columbia University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #12 | Cornell University | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| #20 | University of Notre Dame | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #21 | University of Michigan | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #24 | University of Virginia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #24 | Emory University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||
| #28 | University of Southern California | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #28 | University of California: San Diego | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #35 | New York University | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 12 | |
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #39 | Boston College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #40 | Tufts University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #40 | University of Washington | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #43 | Boston University | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | ||
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| #47 | Lehigh University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #47 | University of Rochester | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #51 | Purdue University | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||
| #53 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #53 | Northeastern University | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #60 | North Carolina State University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #67 | Villanova University | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||
| #67 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 12 | |
| #67 | George Washington University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #67 | University of Miami | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #67 | Syracuse University | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #73 | Tulane University | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| #76 | SUNY University at Buffalo | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #76 | University of Delaware | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||
| #86 | Marquette University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #89 | Temple University | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #89 | Fordham University | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | |
| #89 | Brigham Young University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #89 | University of South Florida | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #93 | Gonzaga University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | Drexel University | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||
| #98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #98 | Texas Christian University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #105 | Arizona State University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #105 | University of Tennessee: Knoxville | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | ||
| #105 | Saint Louis University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #105 | American University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #115 | University of New Hampshire | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #115 | University of Utah | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #124 | University of Denver | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #124 | James Madison University | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #124 | University of South Carolina: Columbia | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #133 | University of Vermont | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | Elon University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #151 | DePaul University | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #163 | Adelphi University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #178 | Catholic University of America | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #195 | East Carolina University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #201 | La Salle University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #201 | Xavier University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #209 | West Chester University of Pennsylvania | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #216 | West Virginia University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #280 | Oklahoma City University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #296 | Alvernia University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #304 | University of Hartford | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #352 | Point Park University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Penn State University Park | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | |
| University of Maryland: College Park | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2018-2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | Total |
| All schools | 38 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 8 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #9 | Carleton College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #16 | Smith College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #16 | Davidson College | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||
| #21 | Haverford College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #27 | Macalester College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #27 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #30 | Lafayette College | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #30 | Bucknell University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #30 | Bryn Mawr College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #34 | Mount Holyoke College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #35 | Occidental College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #39 | Kenyon College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #39 | Denison University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #46 | Furman University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #46 | Dickinson College | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | |
| #70 | Muhlenberg College | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #82 | Saint Mary's College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #86 | Ursinus College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #93 | Lewis & Clark College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #116 | Ohio Wesleyan University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #124 | Goucher College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2018-2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | Total |
| All schools | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #2 | University of British Columbia | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #3 | McGill University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #21 | Concordia University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #31 | Wilfrid Laurier University | 1 | 1 | ||||
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化学俱乐部
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