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 | 3 |
#2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 3 |
#3 | Harvard College | 9 |
#3 | Stanford University | 1 |
#3 | Yale University | 4 |
LAC #1 | Williams College | 2 |
#6 | University of Chicago | 6 |
#7 | Johns Hopkins University | 3 |
#7 | University of Pennsylvania | 12 |
#9 | California Institute of Technology | 1 |
#10 | Duke University | 15 |
#10 | Northwestern University | 14 |
LAC #2 | Amherst College | 3 |
#12 | Dartmouth College | 4 |
#13 | Brown University | 6 |
#13 | Vanderbilt University | 5 |
#15 | Rice University | 4 |
#15 | Washington University in St. Louis | 12 |
LAC #3 | Pomona College | 3 |
#17 | Cornell University | 18 |
#18 | Columbia University | 9 |
#18 | University of Notre Dame | 3 |
#20 | University of California: Los Angeles | 2 |
LAC #4 | Swarthmore College | 4 |
#22 | Carnegie Mellon University | 3 |
#22 | Emory University | 7 |
#22 | Georgetown University | 9 |
#25 | New York University | 15 |
#25 | University of Michigan | 8 |
#25 | University of Southern California | 11 |
#25 | University of Virginia | 1 |
LAC #5 | Wellesley College | 2 |
#29 | University of Florida | 1 |
#29 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 |
#29 | Wake Forest University | 6 |
LAC #6 | Bowdoin College | 3 |
#32 | Tufts University | 4 |
#32 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 |
#34 | University of California: Irvine | 1 |
#36 | Boston College | 8 |
#36 | University of Rochester | 4 |
#38 | University of Texas at Austin | 2 |
#38 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 11 |
#41 | Boston University | 3 |
#44 | Case Western Reserve University | 2 |
#44 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 |
#44 | Northeastern University | 9 |
#44 | Tulane University | 2 |
LAC #9 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 |
#51 | Lehigh University | 8 |
#51 | Purdue University | 1 |
#51 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 5 |
#51 | Villanova University | 2 |
#55 | Florida State University | 1 |
#55 | Pepperdine University | 1 |
#55 | University of Miami | 5 |
LAC #11 | Middlebury College | 1 |
#62 | George Washington University | 6 |
#62 | Syracuse University | 8 |
#70 | Virginia Military Institute | 1 |
#72 | American University | 2 |
#72 | Fordham University | 7 |
#72 | Indiana University Bloomington | 8 |
#72 | Reed College | 1 |
#72 | Sarah Lawrence College | 2 |
#72 | Southern Methodist University | 1 |
LAC #15 | Davidson College | 1 |
LAC #15 | Hamilton College | 3 |
#76 | Muhlenberg College | 4 |
#77 | Clemson University | 1 |
#77 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 |
#85 | Washington College | 1 |
#89 | Elon University | 2 |
#89 | Howard University | 3 |
#89 | University of Delaware | 1 |
LAC #18 | Colgate University | 2 |
LAC #18 | Haverford College | 3 |
LAC #18 | University of Richmond | 1 |
LAC #18 | Wesleyan University | 2 |
#105 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 |
#111 | Drew University | 1 |
#115 | Fairfield University | 1 |
#115 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: Newark Campus | 1 |
LAC #24 | Colby College | 2 |
#121 | Chapman University | 1 |
#121 | Temple University | 1 |
#121 | University of Vermont | 2 |
LAC #25 | Bates College | 1 |
#127 | University of Dayton | 2 |
LAC #27 | Colorado College | 1 |
#151 | James Madison University | 1 |
LAC #31 | Bryn Mawr College | 2 |
LAC #31 | Kenyon College | 3 |
LAC #33 | Pitzer College | 1 |
LAC #37 | Bucknell University | 6 |
LAC #39 | Denison University | 1 |
LAC #39 | Lafayette College | 3 |
LAC #39 | Skidmore College | 3 |
LAC #45 | Furman University | 1 |
LAC #61 | Gettysburg College | 2 |
Babson College | 1 | |
Bentley University | 1 | |
College of William and Mary | 1 | |
East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania | 1 | |
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University: Worldwide Campus | 1 | |
Emerson College | 1 | |
Marist College | 1 | |
McGill University | 5 | |
Oberlin College | 1 | |
Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 1 | |
Penn State University Park | 1 | |
Rhode Island School of Design | 1 | |
Rider University | 1 | |
Rutgers University | 7 | |
University of Glasgow | 1 | |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 | |
University of Maryland: College Park | 2 | |
University of Oxford | 1 | |
University of St. Andrews | 3 | |
University of Tennessee: Knoxville | 1 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2020-2023 | 2019-2022 | 2018-2021 | 2017-2020 | 2016-2019 | Total |
All schools | 331 | 323 | 331 | 320 | 325 | ||
#1 | Princeton University | 3 | 5 | 4 admitted | 5 | 4 admitted | 21 |
#2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 3 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 7 |
#3 | Stanford University | 1 | 2 | 4 admitted | 3 | 4 admitted | 14 |
#3 | Harvard College | 9 | 9 | 11 admitted | 10 | 9 admitted | 48 |
#5 | Yale University | 4 | 5 | 6 admitted | 8 | 8 admitted | 31 |
#6 | University of Pennsylvania | 12 | 15 | 20 admitted | 22 | 20 admitted | 89 |
#7 | California Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
#7 | Duke University | 15 | 13 | 9 admitted | 1 | 7 admitted | 45 |
#9 | Brown University | 6 | 7 | 5 admitted | 5 | 5 admitted | 28 |
#9 | Johns Hopkins University | 3 | 3 | 4 admitted | 5 | 7 admitted | 22 |
#9 | Northwestern University | 14 | 12 | 12 admitted | 12 | 11 admitted | 61 |
#12 | University of Chicago | 6 | 5 | 4 admitted | 2 | 2 admitted | 19 |
#12 | Cornell University | 18 | 17 | 17 admitted | 14 | 11 admitted | 77 |
#12 | Columbia University | 9 | 8 | 8 admitted | 7 | 7 admitted | 39 |
#15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 | 2 admitted | 3 | 3 admitted | 9 | |
#15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
#17 | Rice University | 4 | 1 | 2 admitted | 4 | 3 admitted | 14 |
#18 | Dartmouth College | 4 | 5 | 5 admitted | 5 | 4 admitted | 23 |
#18 | Vanderbilt University | 5 | 4 | 3 admitted | 4 | 3 admitted | 19 |
#20 | University of Notre Dame | 3 | 3 | 4 admitted | 5 | 5 admitted | 20 |
#21 | University of Michigan | 8 | 8 | 8 admitted | 11 | 13 admitted | 48 |
#22 | Georgetown University | 9 | 7 | 5 admitted | 3 | 5 admitted | 29 |
#22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 | 2 | 2 admitted | 2 admitted | 7 | |
#24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 3 | 3 | 4 admitted | 6 | 6 admitted | 22 |
#24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 12 | 12 | 14 admitted | 19 | 18 admitted | 75 |
#24 | Emory University | 7 | 8 | 10 admitted | 12 | 13 admitted | 50 |
#24 | University of Virginia | 1 | 2 | 2 admitted | 1 | 2 admitted | 8 |
#28 | University of Florida | 1 | 1 | ||||
#28 | University of California: San Diego | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | |
#28 | University of Southern California | 11 | 6 | 6 admitted | 5 | 5 admitted | 33 |
#33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 5 |
#33 | University of California: Irvine | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 11 | 11 | 9 admitted | 5 | 3 admitted | 39 |
#35 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#35 | New York University | 15 | 19 | 20 admitted | 20 | 20 admitted | 94 |
#38 | University of Texas at Austin | 2 | 3 | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 8 |
#39 | Boston College | 8 | 6 | 6 admitted | 3 | 5 admitted | 28 |
#40 | Tufts University | 4 | 6 | 5 admitted | 3 | 3 admitted | 21 |
#40 | Rutgers University | 7 | 6 | 6 admitted | 6 | 6 admitted | 31 |
#43 | Boston University | 3 | 4 | 5 admitted | 4 | 5 admitted | 21 |
#47 | University of Rochester | 4 | 3 | 1 admitted | 2 admitted | 10 | |
#47 | Lehigh University | 8 | 11 | 11 admitted | 9 | 7 admitted | 46 |
#47 | Wake Forest University | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 10 | |
#51 | Purdue University | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | 2 admitted | 6 | |
#53 | Florida State University | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 4 | |
#53 | College of William and Mary | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 4 | |
#53 | Case Western Reserve University | 2 | 2 | 3 admitted | 3 | 4 admitted | 14 |
#53 | Northeastern University | 9 | 8 | 9 admitted | 8 | 9 admitted | 43 |
#60 | Brandeis University | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
#60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 5 | 4 | 3 admitted | 4 | 5 admitted | 21 |
#67 | Syracuse University | 8 | 9 | 12 admitted | 15 | 13 admitted | 57 |
#67 | University of Miami | 5 | 4 | 5 admitted | 4 | 4 admitted | 22 |
#67 | Villanova University | 2 | 3 | 4 admitted | 4 | 4 admitted | 17 |
#67 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | |
#67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 2 | 2 | ||||
#67 | George Washington University | 6 | 7 | 4 admitted | 6 | 8 admitted | 31 |
#73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 8 | 4 | 7 admitted | 7 | 7 admitted | 33 |
#73 | Tulane University | 2 | 4 | 4 admitted | 4 | 6 admitted | 20 |
#76 | University of Delaware | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 4 | |
#76 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 2 admitted | 2 | 2 admitted | 6 | ||
#76 | Pepperdine University | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
#82 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: Newark Campus | 1 | 1 | ||||
#82 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | 2 admitted | 6 | |
#86 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 2 admitted | 2 | 2 admitted | 6 | ||
#86 | Clemson University | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 4 | |
#89 | Temple University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#89 | Southern Methodist University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#89 | Fordham University | 7 | 8 | 8 admitted | 4 | 3 admitted | 30 |
#93 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
#105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 2 admitted | 5 | |
#105 | American University | 2 | 2 | 1 admitted | 1 admitted | 6 | |
#105 | University of Tennessee: Knoxville | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
#115 | University of Utah | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
#115 | Howard University | 3 | 3 | 3 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 11 |
#124 | Fairfield University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#124 | James Madison University | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
#133 | University of Vermont | 2 | 2 | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 7 |
#133 | Elon University | 2 | 1 | 2 admitted | 3 | 4 admitted | 12 |
#133 | University of Dayton | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 5 | |
#133 | Chapman University | 1 | 1 | ||||
#137 | University of Alabama | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
#151 | Seton Hall University | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | |
#163 | Montclair State University | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
#280 | Hampton University | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | |
#361 | Clark Atlanta University | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Penn State University Park | 1 | 2 | 2 admitted | 3 | 3 admitted | 11 | |
University of Maryland: College Park | 2 | 2 | 2 admitted | 2 | 1 admitted | 9 | |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 4 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2020-2023 | 2019-2022 | 2018-2021 | 2017-2020 | 2016-2019 | Total |
All schools | 68 | 67 | 63 | 69 | 73 | ||
#1 | Williams College | 2 | 2 | 2 admitted | 2 | 2 admitted | 10 |
#2 | Amherst College | 3 | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | 2 admitted | 9 |
#3 | United States Naval Academy | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
#4 | Swarthmore College | 4 | 5 | 2 admitted | 2 | 3 admitted | 16 |
#4 | Wellesley College | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
#4 | Pomona College | 3 | 1 | 2 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 8 |
#9 | Bowdoin College | 3 | 3 | 2 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 10 |
#11 | Barnard College | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
#11 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
#11 | Wesleyan University | 2 | 3 | 2 admitted | 4 | 4 admitted | 15 |
#11 | Middlebury College | 1 | 3 admitted | 4 | 4 admitted | 12 | |
#16 | Vassar College | 1 | 4 admitted | 5 | |||
#16 | Davidson College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#16 | Hamilton College | 3 | 5 | 5 admitted | 7 | 10 admitted | 30 |
#21 | Haverford College | 3 | 3 | 2 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 10 |
#21 | Washington and Lee University | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
#21 | Colgate University | 2 | 2 | 3 admitted | 4 | 4 admitted | 15 |
#24 | Bates College | 1 | 2 | 3 admitted | 2 | 2 admitted | 10 |
#25 | Colby College | 2 | 2 | ||||
#25 | University of Richmond | 1 | 2 | 2 admitted | 3 | 2 admitted | 10 |
#30 | Bucknell University | 6 | 7 | 5 admitted | 1 | 2 admitted | 21 |
#30 | Bryn Mawr College | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 5 | |
#30 | Lafayette College | 3 | 5 | 6 admitted | 9 | 7 admitted | 30 |
#33 | Colorado College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | 2 admitted | 2 | 2 admitted | 7 | |
#38 | Skidmore College | 3 | 1 | 2 admitted | 2 | 4 admitted | 12 |
#39 | Pitzer College | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | 1 admitted | 6 |
#39 | Kenyon College | 3 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 6 | |
#39 | Denison University | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 5 |
#45 | Union College | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
#46 | Furman University | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 4 | |
#63 | Virginia Military Institute | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 4 | |
#63 | Gettysburg College | 2 | 2 | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 7 |
#67 | Reed College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#70 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | |
#70 | Muhlenberg College | 4 | 2 | 2 admitted | 4 | 4 admitted | 16 |
#82 | Juniata College | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | |
#93 | Washington College | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
#93 | Drew University | 1 | 2 | 2 admitted | 2 | 2 admitted | 9 |
#100 | Sarah Lawrence College | 2 | 2 | 1 admitted | 1 | 6 | |
United States Military Academy | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | 2 admitted | 6 | ||
Oberlin College | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 1 admitted | 5 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2020-2023 | 2019-2022 | 2018-2021 | 2017-2020 | 2016-2019 | Total |
All schools | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | ||
#3 | McGill University | 5 | 6 | 5 admitted | 5 | 1 admitted | 22 |
Matriculation | |||||||
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Ranking | University/College | 2020-2023 | 2019-2022 | 2018-2021 | 2017-2020 | 2016-2019 | Total |
All schools | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
#1 | University of Oxford | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
#3 | University College London | 1 | 1 | ||||
#8 | University of Glasgow | 1 | 1 | ||||
#33 | University of St. Andrews | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Calculus AB
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Calculus BC
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United States History
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IB English A: Literature
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IB Chinese
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IB French
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IB Spanish
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IB Economics
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IB History
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IB English A: Literature
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IB Chinese
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IB French
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IB Spanish
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IB Economics
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IB History
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IB Philosophy
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IB World History
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IB Biology
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IB Chemistry
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IB Computer Science
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IB Environment
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IB Physics
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IB Analysis and Approaches
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IB Mathematics
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IB Dance
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IB Film
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IB Theatre
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IB Visual Arts
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IB French A: Language and Literature
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IB Global Politics
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Baseball
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Basketball
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Cross Country
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Fencing
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Field Hockey
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American Football
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Baseball
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Basketball
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Cross Country
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Fencing
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Field Hockey
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American Football
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Golf
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Lacrosse
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Soccer
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Softball
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Swimming
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Tennis
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Track and Field
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Volleyball
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Wrestling
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Animal Rights Club
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Around the World Travel Club
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Art Club
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Asian Diversity Club
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Astronomy Club
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Black Student Union
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Animal Rights Club
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Around the World Travel Club
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Art Club
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Asian Diversity Club
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Astronomy Club
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Black Student Union
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Cancer Awareness Club
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Chemistry Club
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Chess Club
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Cricket Club
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Do Something Club
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Entrepreneurship Club
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Ethics Bowl
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Federal Reserve Challenge Club
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Film Appreciation Club
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Food Club
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French Club
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Gender Sexuality Alliance
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Girl Up
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Green & Blue Committee
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Healthy Body
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Healthy Mind Club
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Hubun Club (Muslim/Arabic Club)
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Human Rights Club
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Improv Club
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Indian Club
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Italian Club
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Jewish Club
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K-Pop Club
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Kiva Club
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Linguistics Club
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Math Club
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Mi Casa
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Minuteman Newspaper
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Minuteman Society
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Mock Trial
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Model Congress
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Model United Nations
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Music Production Club
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Newark Anatomy
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Outdoors Club
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Peer Tutoring
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People Organizing for Women's Empowerment and Rights (POWER)
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Philosophy-Psychology Club
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Photography Club
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Prisms (literary magazine)
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Public Health Group
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Quiz Bowl
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Robotics & Engineering Club
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Ski Club
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Sports Analytics Club
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STEM Journal
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Stock Market Club
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Strategic Games Forum
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Strings Attached
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Student Endowment Committee
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Support the Troops
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Supporting Women in STEM
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Think Tank
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Ultimate Frisbee Club
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Vypr Club (computer programming)
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Yearbook
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Yoga Club
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Young Democrats Club
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Young Republicans Club
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Advancement Student Leadership Team
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Athletic Team Captains
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Classroom Intern Association (CIA)
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Community Service Council
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Diversity
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Equity & Inclusion Ambassadors
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Equity & Inclusion Team
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Peer Leaders
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School Council
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Writing
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Art
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Music (WAM) Blog Interns
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Acting
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Choir
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Dance
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Music
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String
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Wind Symphony
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Acting
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Choir
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Dance
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Music
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String
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Wind Symphony
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Ceramics
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Digital Photography
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Drawing
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Film
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Filmmaking
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Painting
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Art
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Audition
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