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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| #2 | Columbia University | 2 |
| #5 | Yale University | 1 |
| LAC #1 | Williams College | 2 |
| #6 | University of Chicago | 1 |
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 |
| #9 | Northwestern University | 1 |
| #14 | Brown University | 1 |
| #14 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 |
| #20 | University of California: Los Angeles | 3 |
| #21 | Emory University | 2 |
| #23 | Georgetown University | 3 |
| #23 | University of Michigan | 1 |
| #25 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 |
| #27 | University of Southern California | 3 |
| #28 | New York University | 3 |
| #34 | University of California: San Diego | 1 |
| #36 | Boston College | 2 |
| #36 | University of California: Irvine | 3 |
| #38 | University of California: Davis | 2 |
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 2 |
| #42 | Boston University | 4 |
| #42 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 |
| LAC #9 | Carleton College | 2 |
| LAC #9 | Middlebury College | 2 |
| #49 | Northeastern University | 4 |
| #49 | Pepperdine University | 1 |
| #55 | Santa Clara University | 2 |
| #59 | Syracuse University | 1 |
| #59 | University of Washington | 2 |
| #63 | George Washington University | 1 |
| #68 | Southern Methodist University | 2 |
| #68 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 |
| #79 | American University | 2 |
| LAC #17 | Barnard College | 2 |
| LAC #17 | Colby College | 2 |
| LAC #17 | Smith College | 4 |
| #93 | University of San Diego | 2 |
| #99 | University of Oregon | 3 |
| #103 | University of California: Santa Cruz | 3 |
| #104 | University of Colorado Boulder | 4 |
| LAC #22 | Vassar College | 2 |
| #117 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #122 | Chapman University | 2 |
| LAC #30 | Mount Holyoke College | 2 |
| #162 | Oregon State University | 2 |
| LAC #46 | Trinity College | 2 |
| LAC #50 | Connecticut College | 4 |
| Liberal Art Colleges top | 50 | |
| Rank Name Students admitted | 1 |
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 72 | 106 | 68 | 81 | 76 | ||
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #3 | Stanford University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #3 | Harvard College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #5 | Yale University | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| #7 | Duke University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| #9 | Northwestern University | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| #9 | Brown University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #12 | Cornell University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| #12 | Columbia University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #12 | University of Chicago | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 |
| #15 | University of California: Berkeley | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 | |
| #17 | Rice University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #20 | University of Notre Dame | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #21 | University of Michigan | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #22 | Georgetown University | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| #24 | Emory University | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | |
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | ||
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| #28 | University of California: Davis | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | |
| #28 | University of Southern California | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 15 |
| #28 | University of California: San Diego | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #33 | University of California: Irvine | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 11 | |
| #33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | New York University | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 17 |
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #35 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | ||
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #39 | Boston College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | |
| #40 | University of Washington | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | |
| #40 | Tufts University | 4 | 4 | ||||
| #43 | Boston University | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 |
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #47 | Lehigh University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #47 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #47 | University of Rochester | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #49 | Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #49 | Purdue University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #53 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #53 | Northeastern University | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 13 |
| #53 | University of Minnesota: Twin Cities | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #59 | University of Maryland: College Park | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #60 | Santa Clara University | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 21 |
| #60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #60 | Brandeis University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #67 | George Washington University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #67 | Villanova University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| #67 | Syracuse University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #67 | University of Miami | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #73 | Tulane University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #76 | Pepperdine University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #79 | Brigham Young University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #89 | Fordham University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #89 | Southern Methodist University | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| #89 | University of South Florida | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #93 | Loyola Marymount University | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 15 | |
| #93 | Gonzaga University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | University of San Diego | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| #98 | Texas Christian University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #98 | Drexel University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | University of Oregon | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | ||
| #103 | University of California: Santa Cruz | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | |
| #105 | American University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 17 |
| #105 | Arizona State University | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| #105 | San Diego State University | 6 | 2 | 1 | 9 | ||
| #105 | California State University: Long Beach | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #115 | University of San Francisco | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #115 | University of Utah | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #115 | Howard University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #124 | Fairfield University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #124 | University of Missouri: Columbia | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #124 | University of Denver | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | Chapman University | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
| #133 | University of Vermont | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #142 | Oregon State University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #142 | Clarkson University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #151 | Colorado State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #163 | University of St. Thomas | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #163 | Seattle University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #178 | Catholic University of America | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #178 | San Francisco State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #195 | University of Tulsa | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #195 | University of Nevada: Reno | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #201 | The New School College of Performing Arts | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #260 | University of North Texas | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #260 | University of New England | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #269 | Northern Illinois University-DeKalb-IL | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #303 | Montana State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #332 | Boise State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #361 | Clark Atlanta University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 24 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 8 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #2 | Amherst College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #3 | United States Naval Academy | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #4 | Pomona College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #4 | Wellesley College | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #9 | Carleton College | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #11 | Middlebury College | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #11 | Wesleyan University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #11 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #11 | Barnard College | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #16 | Smith College | 4 | 4 | ||||
| #16 | Vassar College | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #16 | Hamilton College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #21 | Colgate University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #25 | Colby College | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #30 | Lafayette College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #33 | Colorado College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #34 | Mount Holyoke College | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #35 | Scripps College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #35 | Occidental College | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #38 | Skidmore College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Pitzer College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #39 | Trinity College | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #39 | Denison University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #46 | Connecticut College | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||
| #46 | Whitman College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #56 | Wheaton College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #63 | Gettysburg College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #70 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #72 | Bard College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #93 | Lewis & Clark College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #100 | Sarah Lawrence College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #100 | Augustana College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #152 | Wittenberg University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #163 | Oglethorpe University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #174 | Simpson University | 1 | 1 | ||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #11 | University of Southampton | 1 | 1 | ||||
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Calculus AB
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Calculus BC
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Environmental Science
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French Language and Culture
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Art History
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Biology
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Calculus AB
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Calculus BC
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Environmental Science
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French Language and Culture
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Latin
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Macroeconomics
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Chemistry
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English Literature and Composition
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Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
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Studio Art: Drawing
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United States History
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Baseball
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Basketball
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Cross Country
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Field Hockey
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Flag Football
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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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Field Hockey
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Flag Football
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American Football
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Golf
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Lacrosse
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Sailing
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Soccer
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Softball
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Swimming
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Tennis
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Volleyball
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Water Polo
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ABC Club
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American Field Service
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Amnesty International
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Badminton Club
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Chess Club
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Computer Club
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ABC Club
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American Field Service
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Amnesty International
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Badminton Club
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Chess Club
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Computer Club
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Cycling Club
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Dance Club
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Dream Theater Club
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Environmental club
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European Car Club
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Fantasy Book Club
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Federation of Jewish Intellectuals
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Fellowship of Christian Athletes
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Fencing Club
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Flash Animation Club
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French Club
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Gay/Straight Alliance
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Green Key Society
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Interact (Community Service)
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Interactive Music
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International Affairs Group
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International Club
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Investment Club
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Japanimation Club
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Jazz Club
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Junior State of America
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Knitting Club
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KSBP 91.9 FM
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Martial Arts Club
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Math Club
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Model UN
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Photography Club
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Publications
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Red Cross Club
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Republican Club
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Science Club
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Shopping Club
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Spirit Club
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Student Government: Class Officers
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Student Government: Residence Council
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Student Government: Student Council
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Sweet Dance (Hip Hop) Club
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Swing Dance Club
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Symposium
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Table Tennis Club
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Thai Club
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Theater Boot Camp
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Thought Club
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