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 | 5 |
| #3 | Harvard College | 6 |
| #3 | Stanford University | 3 |
| #3 | Yale University | 11 |
| LAC #1 | Williams College | 5 |
| #6 | University of Chicago | 5 |
| #7 | Johns Hopkins University | 3 |
| #7 | University of Pennsylvania | 13 |
| #9 | California Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #10 | Duke University | 1 |
| #10 | Northwestern University | 15 |
| LAC #2 | Amherst College | 1 |
| #12 | Dartmouth College | 7 |
| #13 | Brown University | 12 |
| #13 | Vanderbilt University | 7 |
| #15 | Washington University in St. Louis | 8 |
| LAC #3 | Pomona College | 5 |
| #17 | Cornell University | 3 |
| #18 | Columbia University | 4 |
| #20 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 |
| #20 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 |
| #22 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 |
| #22 | Emory University | 7 |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 5 |
| #25 | New York University | 8 |
| #25 | University of Michigan | 10 |
| #25 | University of Southern California | 3 |
| #25 | University of Virginia | 6 |
| #29 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2 |
| #29 | Wake Forest University | 1 |
| LAC #6 | Bowdoin College | 2 |
| LAC #6 | Carleton College | 1 |
| LAC #6 | United States Naval Academy | 1 |
| #32 | Tufts University | 11 |
| #32 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 |
| #34 | University of California: San Diego | 1 |
| #36 | Boston College | 4 |
| #36 | University of Rochester | 7 |
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 2 |
| #38 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2 |
| #41 | Boston University | 2 |
| #44 | Brandeis University | 1 |
| #44 | Case Western Reserve University | 3 |
| #44 | Northeastern University | 7 |
| #44 | Tulane University | 8 |
| LAC #9 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 |
| #51 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 |
| #51 | Spelman College | 3 |
| #51 | Villanova University | 1 |
| #55 | Pepperdine University | 1 |
| #55 | University of Miami | 4 |
| LAC #11 | Middlebury College | 5 |
| #62 | George Washington University | 2 |
| #62 | Syracuse University | 6 |
| #62 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 |
| #62 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 1 |
| LAC #13 | Vassar College | 1 |
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 |
| #67 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 3 |
| #72 | Fordham University | 1 |
| #72 | Reed College | 1 |
| #72 | Sarah Lawrence College | 1 |
| LAC #15 | Davidson College | 3 |
| LAC #15 | Hamilton College | 4 |
| #83 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #83 | University of Iowa | 1 |
| #89 | St. Mary's College of Maryland | 1 |
| #89 | Texas Christian University | 1 |
| #89 | University of Delaware | 1 |
| LAC #18 | Colgate University | 5 |
| LAC #18 | Haverford College | 4 |
| LAC #18 | University of Richmond | 1 |
| LAC #18 | Wesleyan University | 10 |
| #105 | Drexel University | 1 |
| #105 | Miami University: Oxford | 3 |
| #115 | Loyola University Chicago | 1 |
| LAC #24 | Colby College | 3 |
| #121 | Chapman University | 1 |
| #121 | Temple University | 3 |
| #121 | University of Vermont | 3 |
| #124 | Morehouse College | 5 |
| LAC #25 | Bates College | 2 |
| LAC #27 | Colorado College | 3 |
| LAC #27 | Macalester College | 1 |
| #137 | George Mason University | 1 |
| LAC #29 | Harvey Mudd College | 1 |
| LAC #31 | Kenyon College | 6 |
| LAC #33 | Pitzer College | 4 |
| LAC #33 | Scripps College | 4 |
| #166 | Virginia Commonwealth University | 1 |
| #182 | Belmont University | 1 |
| LAC #37 | Bucknell University | 2 |
| LAC #37 | Occidental College | 5 |
| LAC #39 | Lafayette College | 1 |
| LAC #39 | Skidmore College | 3 |
| LAC #39 | Trinity College | 3 |
| #219 | Hampton University | 1 |
| #234 | University of Hartford | 1 |
| LAC #51 | Dickinson College | 4 |
| LAC #55 | Connecticut College | 2 |
| #299 | Old Dominion University | 1 |
| #317 | Morgan State University | 2 |
| Babson College | 3 | |
| Baldwin Wallace University | 1 | |
| California Polytechnic State University: San Luis Obispo | 1 | |
| College of Charleston | 1 | |
| College of William and Mary | 4 | |
| Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | 1 | |
| Franklin & Marshall College | 2 | |
| Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering | 1 | |
| Grambling State University | 1 | |
| Ithaca College | 1 | |
| Lincoln University | 1 | |
| McGill University | 2 | |
| Oberlin College | 3 | |
| pennsylvania academy of the fine arts | 1 | |
| Rhode Island School of Design | 2 | |
| Savannah College of Art and Design | 1 | |
| The New School College of Performing Arts | 2 | |
| Towson University | 1 | |
| University of British Columbia | 1 | |
| University of Colorado Boulder | 6 | |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 | |
| University of Maryland: College Park | 1 | |
| University of New Orleans | 1 | |
| University of Oxford | 1 | |
| University of St. Andrews | 2 | |
| University of Toronto | 2 |
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| Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2020 | 2015-2019 | Total |
| All schools | 259 | 250 | 229 | 29 | 201 | ||
| #1 | Princeton University | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 + | 2 | 17 |
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #3 | Stanford University | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 16 | |
| #3 | Harvard College | 6 | 5 | 6 | 1 + | 4 | 22 |
| #5 | Yale University | 11 | 9 | 7 | 1 + | 7 | 35 |
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 13 | 8 | 6 | 1 + | 8 | 36 |
| #7 | California Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #7 | Duke University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 + | 1 | 9 |
| #9 | Brown University | 12 | 10 | 10 | 1 + | 10 | 43 |
| #9 | Northwestern University | 15 | 11 | 9 | 1 + | 5 | 41 |
| #12 | University of Chicago | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 14 | |
| #12 | Columbia University | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | |
| #12 | Cornell University | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | |
| #15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 + | 2 | 8 |
| #17 | Rice University | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | ||
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 + | 3 | 21 |
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 7 | 7 | 7 | 1 + | 4 | 26 |
| #21 | University of Michigan | 10 | 12 | 9 | 1 + | 6 | 38 |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 5 | 5 | 3 | 13 | ||
| #22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 8 | 9 | 9 | 1 + | 10 | 37 |
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #24 | University of Virginia | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 + | 3 | 22 |
| #24 | Emory University | 7 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 22 | |
| #28 | University of Southern California | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 21 | |
| #28 | University of California: Davis | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #28 | University of California: San Diego | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| #33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |
| #35 | New York University | 8 | 9 | 12 | 1 + | 7 | 37 |
| #35 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 + | 1 | 8 |
| #39 | Boston College | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | |
| #40 | University of Washington | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #40 | Tufts University | 11 | 8 | 11 | 1 + | 9 | 40 |
| #43 | Boston University | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #47 | Lehigh University | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 + | 2 | 9 |
| #47 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #47 | University of Rochester | 7 | 9 | 7 | 1 + | 6 | 30 |
| #53 | Northeastern University | 7 | 9 | 7 | 1 + | 5 | 29 |
| #53 | Case Western Reserve University | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
| #53 | College of William and Mary | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 + | 11 | |
| #57 | Purdue University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #58 | University of Connecticut | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #60 | Brandeis University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 + | 4 | |
| #60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #67 | Villanova University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #67 | George Washington University | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | |
| #67 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #67 | Syracuse University | 6 | 5 | 6 | 1 + | 6 | 24 |
| #67 | University of Miami | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 + | 3 | 14 |
| #73 | Tulane University | 8 | 6 | 9 | 1 + | 8 | 32 |
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #76 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #76 | University of Delaware | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #76 | Pepperdine University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #82 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | |
| #84 | University of California: Santa Cruz | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #89 | Temple University | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 + | 2 | 11 |
| #89 | Fordham University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #93 | University of Iowa | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #98 | Texas Christian University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 + | 4 | |
| #98 | Drexel University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| #105 | American University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #105 | George Mason University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 + | 3 | 21 |
| #105 | Arizona State University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #115 | Howard University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #133 | Chapman University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #133 | Miami University: Oxford | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 13 | |
| #133 | University of Vermont | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 14 | |
| #133 | Elon University | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #137 | University of Alabama | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #142 | Virginia Commonwealth University | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
| #142 | Loyola University Chicago | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #151 | DePaul University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #163 | University of St. Thomas | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #201 | The New School College of Performing Arts | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 + | 9 | |
| #236 | Belmont University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #260 | Loyola University New Orleans | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #280 | Old Dominion University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #280 | Hampton University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #304 | University of Hartford | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #332 | Morgan State University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| University of Maryland: College Park | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||
| University of New Orleans | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 + | 4 | ||
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2020 | 2015-2019 | Total |
| All schools | 109 | 108 | 123 | 14 | 147 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 + | 4 | 19 |
| #2 | Amherst College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 + | 4 | |
| #3 | United States Naval Academy | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #4 | Wellesley College | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #4 | Pomona College | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 + | 1 | 14 |
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | ||
| #7 | United States Air Force Academy | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #9 | Bowdoin College | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 + | 5 | 11 |
| #9 | Carleton College | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
| #11 | Middlebury College | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 + | 3 | 19 |
| #11 | Barnard College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #11 | Grinnell College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #11 | Wesleyan University | 10 | 9 | 8 | 1 + | 7 | 35 |
| #11 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #16 | Smith College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #16 | Davidson College | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 + | 1 | 9 |
| #16 | Vassar College | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 14 | |
| #16 | Hamilton College | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 + | 3 | 16 |
| #16 | Harvey Mudd College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 + | 1 | 5 |
| #21 | Haverford College | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | |
| #21 | Colgate University | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 17 | |
| #24 | Bates College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | |
| #25 | University of Richmond | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | |
| #25 | Colby College | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | |
| #27 | Macalester College | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 + | 3 | 9 |
| #30 | Lafayette College | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
| #30 | Bryn Mawr College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #30 | Bucknell University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #33 | Colorado College | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 18 | |
| #34 | Mount Holyoke College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #35 | Scripps College | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 + | 4 | 17 |
| #35 | Occidental College | 5 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 28 | |
| #35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | |
| #38 | Skidmore College | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | |
| #39 | Kenyon College | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 17 | |
| #39 | Pitzer College | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | |
| #39 | Denison University | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
| #39 | Trinity College | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | |
| #39 | Spelman College | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 + | 2 | 10 |
| #45 | Union College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #46 | Dickinson College | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 + | 7 | 19 |
| #46 | Connecticut College | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | |
| #46 | Whitman College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #51 | Centre College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #51 | The University of the South | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #56 | Rhodes College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #59 | Wofford College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #63 | Gettysburg College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #63 | Virginia Military Institute | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #67 | Reed College | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |
| #70 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #70 | Muhlenberg College | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #75 | Lawrence University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #82 | St. Mary's College of Maryland | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #86 | Beloit College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #93 | Lewis & Clark College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #100 | Sarah Lawrence College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #100 | Morehouse College | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 + | 11 | |
| #124 | Goucher College | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| #130 | Eckerd College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Oberlin College | 3 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 20 | ||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2020 | 2015-2019 | Total |
| All schools | 5 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 4 | ||
| #1 | University of Toronto | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #2 | University of British Columbia | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | |
| #3 | McGill University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
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| Ranking | University/College | 2019-2023 | 2018-2022 | 2017-2021 | 2020 | 2015-2019 | Total |
| All schools | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #1 | University of Oxford | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #33 | University of St. Andrews | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
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A Capella at Maret
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Action for Women
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Amnesty International
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Asian Affinity and Asian Cultures Club
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Black Student Union
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A Capella at Maret
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Action for Women
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Amnesty International
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Fighting Homelessness in DC
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Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Discussion Group
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It’s Academic
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Jazz Band
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Latino Student Fund Tutoring
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Literary & Visual Arts Magazine
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