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 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #3 | Yale University | 4 |
| #6 | University of Chicago | 3 |
| #7 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 |
| #7 | University of Pennsylvania | 2 |
| #10 | Duke University | 2 |
| #10 | Northwestern University | 1 |
| LAC #2 | Amherst College | 2 |
| #13 | Brown University | 3 |
| #13 | Vanderbilt University | 2 |
| #15 | Rice University | 1 |
| #15 | Washington University in St. Louis | 3 |
| #17 | Cornell University | 6 |
| #18 | Columbia University | 2 |
| LAC #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 |
| #22 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 |
| #22 | Emory University | 2 |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 4 |
| #25 | University of Michigan | 1 |
| #25 | University of Virginia | 1 |
| #29 | Wake Forest University | 1 |
| LAC #6 | Carleton College | 1 |
| #32 | Tufts University | 3 |
| #36 | University of Rochester | 1 |
| #38 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 4 |
| #41 | Boston University | 3 |
| #44 | Brandeis University | 1 |
| #44 | Northeastern University | 1 |
| #44 | Tulane University | 3 |
| LAC #9 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 |
| #51 | Lehigh University | 2 |
| #62 | George Washington University | 2 |
| #62 | Syracuse University | 2 |
| LAC #13 | Vassar College | 1 |
| LAC #15 | Hamilton College | 1 |
| #77 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 |
| SUNY University at Buffalo | 1 | |
| LAC #18 | Barnard College | 1 |
| LAC #18 | Colgate University | 4 |
| LAC #18 | University of Richmond | 3 |
| LAC #18 | Wesleyan University | 1 |
| LAC #24 | Colby College | 1 |
| #121 | University of Vermont | 1 |
| LAC #25 | Bates College | 2 |
| LAC #27 | Colorado College | 1 |
| #137 | University of Kentucky | 1 |
| LAC #31 | Bryn Mawr College | 1 |
| LAC #36 | Mount Holyoke College | 1 |
| LAC #37 | Bucknell University | 4 |
| LAC #39 | Denison University | 2 |
| College of William and Mary | 1 | |
| Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | 1 | |
| King's College London | 1 | |
| Penn State University Park | 2 | |
| stony brook university, state university of new york | 1 | |
| University of Maryland: College Park | 1 | |
| University of St. Andrews | 1 | |
| University of Toronto | 1 |
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 72 | 73 | 73 | 73 | 74 | ||
| #1 | Princeton University | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 6 |
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #3 | Harvard College | 3 | 5 | 3 admitted | 11 | ||
| #3 | Stanford University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 5 | |
| #5 | Yale University | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 admitted | 12 |
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 admitted | 19 |
| #7 | Duke University | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 admitted | 12 | |
| #9 | Brown University | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 admitted | 11 |
| #9 | Northwestern University | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 admitted | 14 |
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
| #12 | University of Chicago | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 admitted | 14 |
| #12 | Columbia University | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 admitted | 6 | |
| #12 | Cornell University | 6 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 7 admitted | 27 |
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #17 | Rice University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 2 | 2 | 3 admitted | 7 | ||
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 admitted | 8 | |
| #20 | University of Notre Dame | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | ||
| #21 | University of Michigan | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 admitted | 11 |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 admitted | 14 |
| #24 | Emory University | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | ||
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 | 3 | 1 admitted | 5 | ||
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 admitted | 9 | |
| #24 | University of Virginia | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #28 | University of Southern California | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | |
| #33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | New York University | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 admitted | 9 | |
| #35 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 1 | 3 | 1 admitted | 5 | ||
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 9 |
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #39 | Boston College | 4 | 1 admitted | 5 | |||
| #40 | Tufts University | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 9 |
| #43 | Boston University | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 admitted | 8 | |
| #47 | University of Rochester | 1 | 2 | 1 admitted | 4 | ||
| #47 | Lehigh University | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 admitted | 9 |
| #47 | University of Georgia | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 admitted | 10 | |
| #49 | Purdue University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #53 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #53 | College of William and Mary | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #53 | Northeastern University | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 admitted | 7 |
| #58 | University of Connecticut | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #60 | Santa Clara University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #60 | Brandeis University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #67 | George Washington University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #67 | University of Miami | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #67 | Syracuse University | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 admitted | 7 | |
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
| #73 | Tulane University | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 admitted | 9 | |
| #76 | SUNY University at Buffalo | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #89 | Southern Methodist University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #89 | Fordham University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #93 | Loyola Marymount University | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #98 | Drexel University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #105 | Saint Louis University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #105 | American University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #115 | Howard University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #124 | Fairfield University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | Miami University: Oxford | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #133 | Elon University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #133 | University of Vermont | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #159 | University of Kentucky | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #201 | The New School College of Performing Arts | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Penn State University Park | 2 | 2 | |||||
| University of Maryland: College Park | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 28 | 24 | 26 | 18 | 20 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 admitted | 7 | |
| #2 | Amherst College | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | ||
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #4 | Pomona College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #4 | Wellesley College | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
| #9 | Bowdoin College | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | ||
| #9 | Carleton College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #11 | Wesleyan University | 1 | 2 | 1 admitted | 4 | ||
| #11 | Middlebury College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #11 | Grinnell College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #11 | Barnard College | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
| #11 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #16 | Hamilton College | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
| #16 | Smith College | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Vassar College | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #21 | Haverford College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #21 | Colgate University | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 admitted | 14 |
| #21 | Washington and Lee University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #24 | Bates College | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #25 | University of Richmond | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 6 | |
| #25 | Colby College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #27 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #30 | Bucknell University | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 admitted | 11 |
| #30 | Bryn Mawr College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #33 | Colorado College | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
| #34 | Mount Holyoke College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #36 | Oberlin College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #38 | Skidmore College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 5 | |
| #39 | Denison University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #39 | Trinity College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #45 | Union College | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
| #46 | Furman University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #46 | Connecticut College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #56 | Wheaton College | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #70 | Kalamazoo College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #70 | Muhlenberg College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #139 | SUNY College at Purchase | 1 | 1 | ||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #1 | University of Toronto | 1 | 1 | ||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #6 | King's College London | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #33 | University of St. Andrews | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
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English Language and Composition
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Environmental Science
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European History
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Biology
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Chemistry
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Chinese Language and Culture
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English Language and Composition
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Environmental Science
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European History
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French Language and Culture
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Music Theory
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Psychology
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Spanish Language and Culture
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Studio Art: 2-D Design
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Computer Science A
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Latin
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Physics 1
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Statistics
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Spanish Literature and Culture
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Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
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Physics C: Mechanics
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Calculus AB
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Calculus BC
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Computer Science Principles
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United States History
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English Literature and Composition
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Art History
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Studio Art: 3-D Design
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Studio Art: Drawing
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Dance
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Fitness
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Squash
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Tennis
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Yoga
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Art Students Association
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The Chamber Five
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Open Mic Club
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Photo Club
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WildScats
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Asian-American Club
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Art Students Association
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The Chamber Five
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Open Mic Club
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Photo Club
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WildScats
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Asian-American Club
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Gender-Sexuality Alliance
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HURD (Hispanos Unidos for Rye’s Diversity)
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Intersectional Feminist Club
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Major Leagues
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Mandarin Chinese Club
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A-Chord with Kids
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Alzheimer's Awareness Club
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Autism Speak Club
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Backyard Sports
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Carver Center Volunteers
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CHEW
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China Care
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Community Service
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Dance with a Purpose
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Give2Learn
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GOPiNK
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Helping Hand
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Midnight Run
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Nutrition Club
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SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions)
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Salute
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Saturday Enrichment and Tutorial (SET)
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Student-Centered Outreach
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Partnership & Enrichment (SCOPE)
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Wildcats MD
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Crop
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Focal Point
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Forum
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Modern Language Magazine
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Omega
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Oral Proficiency Interns
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Peer Leadership
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Girls' & Boys' Mentoring Programs
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Peer Mentoring
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Peer Tutoring
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Student Government
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Tour Guide Program
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Backpacking Club
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Blend Club
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Chess Club
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Classics Club
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Debate Club
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Drama Club
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Investment Club
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Math Contest Club
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Model Congress/U.N. Club
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Movie Club
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The Poetic Literature of the Urban Generation Club P.L.U.G.
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Political Forum Club
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The Robotics Club
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Rock & Roll Appreciation Club
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Spirit Club
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Environmental Club
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3D Design
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Ceramics
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Drawing
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Filmmaking
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Graphic Design
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2D Design
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3D Design
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Ceramics
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Drawing
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