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 | 2 |
| #3 | Harvard College | 4 |
| #3 | Stanford University | 9 |
| #3 | Yale University | 2 |
| #6 | University of Chicago | 9 |
| #7 | University of Pennsylvania | 3 |
| #10 | Duke University | 7 |
| #10 | Northwestern University | 5 |
| #12 | Dartmouth College | 1 |
| #13 | Brown University | 7 |
| #13 | Vanderbilt University | 5 |
| #15 | Washington University in St. Louis | 4 |
| LAC #3 | Pomona College | 3 |
| #17 | Cornell University | 2 |
| #18 | Columbia University | 3 |
| #20 | University of California: Berkeley | 10 |
| #20 | University of California: Los Angeles | 13 |
| LAC #4 | Swarthmore College | 2 |
| #22 | Emory University | 1 |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 5 |
| #25 | New York University | 3 |
| #25 | University of Michigan | 3 |
| #25 | University of Southern California | 4 |
| #25 | University of Virginia | 1 |
| LAC #5 | Wellesley College | 2 |
| #29 | Wake Forest University | 5 |
| LAC #6 | Bowdoin College | 3 |
| #32 | Tufts University | 7 |
| #32 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 2 |
| #34 | University of California: Irvine | 2 |
| #34 | University of California: San Diego | 1 |
| #36 | Boston College | 4 |
| #38 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2 |
| #41 | Boston University | 1 |
| #44 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #44 | Northeastern University | 6 |
| #44 | Tulane University | 3 |
| LAC #9 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 |
| #51 | Lehigh University | 1 |
| #55 | University of Washington | 4 |
| LAC #11 | Middlebury College | 10 |
| LAC #11 | Washington and Lee University | 4 |
| #62 | George Washington University | 1 |
| #62 | Syracuse University | 1 |
| #63 | Agnes Scott College | 1 |
| LAC #13 | Smith College | 1 |
| LAC #13 | Vassar College | 1 |
| #72 | American University | 1 |
| #72 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 |
| #72 | Reed College | 1 |
| #72 | Southern Methodist University | 6 |
| LAC #15 | Davidson College | 1 |
| #77 | Loyola Marymount University | 2 |
| #89 | Texas Christian University | 1 |
| LAC #18 | Barnard College | 2 |
| LAC #18 | Colgate University | 3 |
| LAC #18 | Haverford College | 5 |
| LAC #18 | University of Richmond | 1 |
| LAC #18 | Wesleyan University | 2 |
| #94 | Lewis & Clark College | 1 |
| #97 | University of San Diego | 1 |
| #105 | Drexel University | 1 |
| #105 | University of Oregon | 1 |
| #105 | University of Utah | 1 |
| #115 | Loyola University Chicago | 1 |
| #121 | Chapman University | 1 |
| LAC #25 | Bates College | 1 |
| LAC #27 | Colorado College | 1 |
| #137 | DePaul University | 1 |
| #151 | San Diego State University | 2 |
| LAC #31 | Bryn Mawr College | 1 |
| LAC #33 | Pitzer College | 3 |
| LAC #33 | Scripps College | 2 |
| LAC #39 | Denison University | 1 |
| #234 | San Francisco State University | 1 |
| #285 | Portland State University | 1 |
| Babson College | 2 | |
| California Polytechnic State University: San Luis Obispo | 1 | |
| California State University: Sacramento | 1 | |
| Franklin University Switzerland | 1 | |
| Oberlin College | 1 | |
| Parsons The New School for Design | 1 | |
| Point Loma Nazarene University | 1 | |
| University of British Columbia | 1 | |
| University of California: Santa Cruz | 2 | |
| University of Colorado Boulder | 1 |
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2021-2023 | 2020-2022 | 2019-2021 | 2017-2019 | 2015-2017 | Total |
| All schools | 172 | 177 | 181 | 174 | 146 | ||
| #1 | Princeton University | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 admitted | 3 | 14 |
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #3 | Harvard College | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 admitted | 7 | 25 |
| #3 | Stanford University | 9 | 11 | 13 | 10 admitted | 6 | 49 |
| #5 | Yale University | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 admitted | 6 | 22 |
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 3 | 5 | 8 | 3 admitted | 1 | 20 |
| #7 | Duke University | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 admitted | 5 | 25 |
| #9 | Northwestern University | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 admitted | 2 | 17 |
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 2 | 3 | 3 admitted | 2 | 10 | |
| #9 | Brown University | 7 | 9 | 8 | 4 admitted | 6 | 34 |
| #12 | Cornell University | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 admitted | 4 | 12 |
| #12 | University of Chicago | 9 | 6 | 7 | 8 admitted | 3 | 33 |
| #12 | Columbia University | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 admitted | 4 | 13 |
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 13 | 13 | 9 | 4 admitted | 6 | 45 |
| #15 | University of California: Berkeley | 10 | 6 | 3 | 7 admitted | 13 | 39 |
| #17 | Rice University | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 admitted | 2 | 16 |
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 admitted | 4 | 17 |
| #20 | University of Notre Dame | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 4 | |
| #21 | University of Michigan | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 admitted | 7 | 23 |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 admitted | 2 | 17 |
| #22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 4 | 6 | 6 admitted | 16 | ||
| #24 | Emory University | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 admitted | 2 | 9 |
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 | 2 | 2 admitted | 5 | 10 | |
| #24 | University of Virginia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 admitted | 2 | 7 |
| #28 | University of California: San Diego | 1 | 4 | 2 admitted | 1 | 8 | |
| #28 | University of California: Davis | 2 admitted | 1 | 3 | |||
| #28 | University of Southern California | 4 | 7 | 8 | 11 admitted | 9 | 39 |
| #33 | University of California: Irvine | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
| #33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #35 | New York University | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 admitted | 6 | 24 |
| #35 | University of California: Santa Barbara | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 4 | 10 |
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 admitted | 10 | |
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #39 | Boston College | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 admitted | 2 | 19 |
| #40 | Tufts University | 7 | 8 | 9 | 11 admitted | 7 | 42 |
| #40 | University of Washington | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 admitted | 1 | 14 |
| #43 | Boston University | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
| #47 | Lehigh University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #47 | University of Rochester | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 5 | 2 | 4 admitted | 6 | 17 | |
| #53 | Northeastern University | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 admitted | 1 | 21 |
| #60 | Santa Clara University | 1 | 3 admitted | 4 | |||
| #67 | University of Miami | 1 | 1 | 3 admitted | 2 | 7 | |
| #67 | Syracuse University | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #67 | George Washington University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #73 | Tulane University | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 admitted | 3 | 14 |
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
| #76 | Pepperdine University | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
| #76 | Colorado School of Mines | 1 admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #82 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #89 | Southern Methodist University | 6 | 7 | 7 | 20 | ||
| #93 | Loyola Marymount University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #98 | University of Oregon | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 4 | ||
| #98 | University of San Diego | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #98 | Drexel University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | Texas Christian University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #105 | San Diego State University | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 admitted | 6 | |
| #105 | American University | 1 | 12 | 1 | 1 admitted | 15 | |
| #105 | Arizona State University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 admitted | 2 | 10 |
| #115 | University of Utah | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
| #133 | Chapman University | 1 | 2 | 3 admitted | 6 | ||
| #142 | University of the Pacific | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #142 | Oregon State University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #142 | Loyola University Chicago | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #151 | Seton Hall University | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #151 | DePaul University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #178 | San Francisco State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #201 | The New School College of Performing Arts | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #280 | Portland State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| University of California: Santa Cruz | 2 | 1 | 2 admitted | 3 | 8 | ||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2021-2023 | 2020-2022 | 2019-2021 | 2017-2019 | 2015-2017 | Total |
| All schools | 54 | 53 | 47 | 55 | 50 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | 7 | |
| #2 | Amherst College | 2 | 3 | 1 admitted | 6 | ||
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #4 | Pomona College | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | |
| #4 | Wellesley College | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | ||
| #9 | Carleton College | 2 | 3 admitted | 5 | |||
| #9 | Bowdoin College | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 admitted | 7 | 18 |
| #11 | Middlebury College | 10 | 9 | 4 | 7 admitted | 5 | 35 |
| #11 | Wesleyan University | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 admitted | 1 | 10 |
| #11 | Barnard College | 2 | 1 | 3 admitted | 3 | 9 | |
| #11 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 admitted | 2 | 9 |
| #16 | Harvey Mudd College | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 3 | ||
| #16 | Smith College | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 3 | ||
| #16 | Hamilton College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Davidson College | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 admitted | 3 | 8 |
| #16 | Vassar College | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #21 | Colgate University | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 admitted | 1 | 11 |
| #21 | Haverford College | 5 | 3 | 2 admitted | 1 | 11 | |
| #21 | Washington and Lee University | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 admitted | 12 | |
| #24 | Bates College | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
| #25 | Colby College | 1 | 2 | 5 admitted | 3 | 11 | |
| #25 | University of Richmond | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #30 | Lafayette College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #30 | Bucknell University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #30 | Bryn Mawr College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #33 | Colorado College | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 admitted | 2 | 10 |
| #34 | Mount Holyoke College | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #35 | Scripps College | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 admitted | 3 | 13 |
| #35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | Occidental College | 1 | 1 admitted | 1 | 3 | ||
| #38 | Skidmore College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #39 | Denison University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #39 | Pitzer College | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
| #46 | Whitman College | 1 admitted | 2 | 3 | |||
| #46 | Connecticut College | 1 admitted | 1 | 2 | |||
| #51 | The University of the South | 1 admitted | 1 | ||||
| #63 | Agnes Scott College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #67 | Reed College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #72 | Bard College | 1 | 2 admitted | 1 | 4 | ||
| #93 | Lewis & Clark College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #93 | Drew University | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #130 | Eckerd College | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| Oberlin College | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 4 | |||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2021-2023 | 2020-2022 | 2019-2021 | 2017-2019 | 2015-2017 | Total |
| All schools | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||
| #2 | University of British Columbia | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 admitted | 7 | |
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Spanish Language and Culture
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Statistics
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Calculus AB
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Chemistry
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Spanish Language and Culture
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Statistics
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Italian Language and Culture
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Cross Country
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Diving
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Baseball
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Diving
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Soccer
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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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Adopt A Plattoon
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Asian Student Alliance (ASA)
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Best Buddies
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Beyond Reason (Girls' a capella)
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Blazer (Student Newspaper)
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Branson Entrepreneurship Club
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Adopt A Plattoon
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Best Buddies
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Beyond Reason (Girls' a capella)
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Blazer (Student Newspaper)
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Conversation Club
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Environmental Action Committee (EAC)
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Interact
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Italian Club
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Latin Club
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Meditation
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Mock Trial
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Model Congress
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Model UN
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Mountain Biking
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Poetry Club
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QSA
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Students For Students Peer Tutoring
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Surfing Club
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Sustainable Seas
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Tech Club
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Viviane
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What Now (Boys' a capella)
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Yearbook
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Yoga Club
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