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 | 13 |
| #3 | Harvard College | 4 |
| #3 | Stanford University | 1 |
| #3 | Yale University | 1 |
| LAC #1 | Williams College | 3 |
| #6 | University of Chicago | 1 |
| #7 | Johns Hopkins University | 4 |
| #7 | University of Pennsylvania | 9 |
| #10 | Duke University | 4 |
| #10 | Northwestern University | 2 |
| #12 | Dartmouth College | 2 |
| #13 | Brown University | 5 |
| #13 | Vanderbilt University | 2 |
| #15 | Rice University | 3 |
| #15 | Washington University in St. Louis | 7 |
| LAC #3 | Pomona College | 2 |
| #17 | Cornell University | 6 |
| #18 | Columbia University | 3 |
| #18 | University of Notre Dame | 2 |
| #20 | University of California: Berkeley | 4 |
| #20 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 |
| LAC #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 |
| #22 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 |
| #22 | Emory University | 2 |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 4 |
| #25 | New York University | 10 |
| #25 | University of Michigan | 3 |
| #25 | University of Southern California | 5 |
| #25 | University of Virginia | 1 |
| #29 | University of Florida | 2 |
| #29 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 |
| #29 | Wake Forest University | 2 |
| LAC #6 | Bowdoin College | 1 |
| LAC #6 | Carleton College | 2 |
| #32 | Tufts University | 3 |
| #34 | University of California: San Diego | 1 |
| #36 | Boston College | 4 |
| #36 | University of Rochester | 2 |
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 |
| #38 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 3 |
| #41 | Boston University | 4 |
| #44 | Brandeis University | 1 |
| #44 | Case Western Reserve University | 5 |
| #44 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #44 | Northeastern University | 3 |
| #44 | Tulane University | 2 |
| #51 | Lehigh University | 7 |
| #51 | Purdue University | 4 |
| #51 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 |
| #51 | Villanova University | 1 |
| #55 | University of Miami | 5 |
| LAC #11 | Middlebury College | 2 |
| #62 | George Washington University | 3 |
| #62 | Syracuse University | 8 |
| #62 | University of Pittsburgh | 2 |
| #62 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 1 |
| #63 | St. Olaf College | 1 |
| LAC #13 | Smith College | 1 |
| LAC #13 | Vassar College | 4 |
| #67 | Texas A&M University | 1 |
| #67 | University of Connecticut | 3 |
| #68 | St. Lawrence University | 1 |
| #72 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 1 |
| #72 | Indiana University Bloomington | 4 |
| #72 | North Carolina State University | 1 |
| LAC #15 | Davidson College | 3 |
| LAC #15 | Grinnell College | 1 |
| LAC #15 | Hamilton College | 4 |
| #76 | Muhlenberg College | 1 |
| #77 | Baylor University | 1 |
| #77 | Clemson University | 2 |
| #83 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #89 | Elon University | 1 |
| #89 | Howard University | 2 |
| #89 | University of Delaware | 1 |
| LAC #18 | Colgate University | 2 |
| LAC #18 | Haverford College | 4 |
| #97 | University of South Florida | 1 |
| #105 | Drexel University | 2 |
| #105 | Miami University: Oxford | 1 |
| #105 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #105 | University of Arizona | 1 |
| #111 | Drew University | 1 |
| #115 | Fairfield University | 1 |
| #120 | Roanoke College | 1 |
| LAC #24 | Colby College | 2 |
| #121 | Chapman University | 1 |
| #121 | University of Vermont | 2 |
| LAC #25 | Bates College | 2 |
| #127 | Clarkson University | 1 |
| LAC #27 | Colorado College | 2 |
| #137 | University of Alabama | 1 |
| #137 | University of New Hampshire | 1 |
| #182 | University of Rhode Island | 1 |
| LAC #37 | Bucknell University | 2 |
| LAC #37 | Occidental College | 1 |
| #194 | Rowan University | 2 |
| LAC #39 | Denison University | 2 |
| LAC #39 | Skidmore College | 3 |
| LAC #45 | Furman University | 1 |
| #234 | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | 1 |
| LAC #51 | Dickinson College | 3 |
| #263 | Florida Atlantic University | 1 |
| LAC #55 | Connecticut College | 1 |
| LAC #61 | Gettysburg College | 1 |
| Babson College | 3 | |
| Berklee College of Music | 1 | |
| California Institute of the Arts | 1 | |
| College of Charleston | 1 | |
| Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | |
| Jacksonville University | 1 | |
| Juilliard School | 1 | |
| Lincoln University | 1 | |
| Loyola University Maryland | 2 | |
| Marist College | 1 | |
| Maryland Institute College of Art | 1 | |
| Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 1 | |
| Penn State University Park | 2 | |
| Pratt Institute | 1 | |
| Providence College | 1 | |
| Ringling College of Art and Design | 1 | |
| Rollins College | 1 | |
| Rutgers University | 6 | |
| Savannah College of Art and Design | 1 | |
| The College of New Jersey | 5 | |
| The King's College | 1 | |
| The New School College of Performing Arts | 1 | |
| University of Colorado Boulder | 3 | |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 | |
| University of Maryland: College Park | 2 | |
| University of St. Andrews | 2 | |
| University of Toronto | 2 |
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2021-2023 | 2020-2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 218 | 203 | 77 | 59 | 75 | ||
| #1 | Princeton University | 13 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 4 admitted | 34 |
| #3 | Harvard College | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 admitted | 10 | |
| #3 | Stanford University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | |
| #5 | Yale University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 9 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 1 admitted | 26 |
| #7 | Duke University | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 admitted | 9 | |
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 15 | |
| #9 | Northwestern University | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #9 | Brown University | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 admitted | 18 |
| #12 | Cornell University | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 16 | |
| #12 | Columbia University | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 admitted | 14 |
| #12 | University of Chicago | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #15 | University of California: Berkeley | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 8 | |
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #17 | Rice University | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | ||
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 8 |
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | |
| #20 | University of Notre Dame | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 admitted | 12 |
| #21 | University of Michigan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 9 |
| #22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #22 | Georgetown University | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 admitted | 14 |
| #24 | Emory University | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 9 |
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #24 | University of Virginia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 17 | |
| #28 | University of Florida | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #28 | University of California: San Diego | 1 | 2 admitted | 3 | |||
| #28 | University of Southern California | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 12 |
| #33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 3 | 3 | 1 admitted | 7 | ||
| #35 | New York University | 10 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 6 admitted | 31 |
| #35 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #39 | Boston College | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 admitted | 15 |
| #40 | Rutgers University | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 admitted | 12 | |
| #40 | Tufts University | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 admitted | 14 |
| #43 | Boston University | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 10 |
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 admitted | 9 | |
| #47 | Lehigh University | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 18 |
| #47 | University of Rochester | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #47 | Texas A&M University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #47 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 4 | ||
| #51 | Purdue University | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | |
| #53 | College of William and Mary | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #53 | Case Western Reserve University | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 admitted | 11 | |
| #53 | Northeastern University | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | |
| #58 | University of Connecticut | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 admitted | 10 | |
| #60 | Michigan State University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 admitted | 8 |
| #60 | North Carolina State University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #60 | Brandeis University | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 7 |
| #67 | Villanova University | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 admitted | 7 | |
| #67 | University of Miami | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 admitted | 11 | |
| #67 | University of Pittsburgh | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #67 | George Washington University | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 admitted | 11 | |
| #67 | Syracuse University | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 admitted | 21 |
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | ||
| #73 | Tulane University | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 6 | |
| #76 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
| #76 | University of Delaware | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #86 | Clemson University | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | ||
| #89 | University of South Florida | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #93 | Baylor University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #98 | Drexel University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 5 | |
| #98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #98 | Texas Christian University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #105 | American University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | |
| #115 | University of Arizona | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #115 | Howard University | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #115 | University of New Hampshire | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #124 | Fairfield University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | Chapman University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #133 | University of Vermont | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 6 | |
| #133 | Miami University: Oxford | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #133 | Elon University | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #137 | University of Alabama | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #142 | Clarkson University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #151 | University of Rhode Island | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #163 | Rowan University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #201 | The New School College of Performing Arts | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #209 | Florida Atlantic University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #209 | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #216 | West Virginia University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #269 | Wilkes University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #280 | Hampton University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| Penn State University Park | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 6 | ||
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| University of Maryland: College Park | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 admitted | 7 | ||
| Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 1 | 1 | |||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2021-2023 | 2020-2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 58 | 62 | 18 | 24 | 21 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | |
| #2 | Amherst College | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #4 | Pomona College | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #4 | Wellesley College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #9 | Bowdoin College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #9 | Carleton College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 5 | |
| #11 | Grinnell College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | |
| #11 | Middlebury College | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 14 | |
| #16 | Vassar College | 4 | 2 | 1 admitted | 7 | ||
| #16 | Hamilton College | 4 | 3 | 7 | |||
| #16 | Smith College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Davidson College | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 admitted | 8 | |
| #21 | Colgate University | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 admitted | 6 | |
| #21 | Haverford College | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||
| #24 | Bates College | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #25 | University of Richmond | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #25 | Colby College | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 8 |
| #30 | Bucknell University | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 8 |
| #33 | Colorado College | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 6 | |
| #35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 6 |
| #35 | Occidental College | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #38 | Skidmore College | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 admitted | 8 | |
| #39 | Trinity College | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 4 | ||
| #39 | Pitzer College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #39 | Denison University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #46 | Dickinson College | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | ||
| #46 | Connecticut College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #46 | Furman University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #51 | St. Olaf College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #59 | St. Lawrence University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #63 | Gettysburg College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #70 | Muhlenberg College | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 5 | |
| #70 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #72 | Bard College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #93 | Drew University | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 admitted | 10 |
| #130 | Roanoke College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #167 | The King's College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Oberlin College | 1 | 1 | 3 admitted | 5 | |||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2021-2023 | 2020-2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #1 | University of Toronto | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2021-2023 | 2020-2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #33 | University of St. Andrews | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
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Computer Science A
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French Language and Culture
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Chemistry
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Computer Science A
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French Language and Culture
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Music Theory
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Spanish Language and Culture
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Art History
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Biology
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Computer Science Principles
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European History
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Human Geography
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Latin
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Physics C: Mechanics
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Girls Who Code
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India Club
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Latin Club
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Math League
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