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Matriculation A+
Academics B+
Extracurriculars A
Community A
Reviews B
The Bullis School is an independent, co-educational college preparatory day school offering girls and boys in grades 3 through 12 an educational program of excellence in a community that values integrity, respect, responsibility, diversity and service. A caring and supportive faculty fosters a positive attitude about learning and challenges our students to achieve their highest potential in academics, the arts and athletics.
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School Stats

Average
Current School
Tuition
$57575
Enrollment
1060
International Students
4%
Faculty with Advanced Degrees
49%
Teacher-Student Ratio
1:7
Endowment
$102 millions
AP
21
Average SAT Score
1270
Average ACT Score
26
Class Size
15

Matriculation


Matriculation

(2023)
Ranking University/College Students
#1 Princeton University 2
#2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
#3 Harvard College 1
#3 Stanford University 1
#7 Johns Hopkins University 1
#7 University of Pennsylvania 4
#10 Duke University 1
#13 Brown University 1
#15 Rice University 1
#15 Washington University in St. Louis 1
LAC #3 Pomona College 1
#17 Cornell University 2
#20 University of California: Berkeley 1
LAC #4 Swarthmore College 1
#22 Emory University 1
#22 Georgetown University 1
#25 New York University 4
#25 University of Michigan 3
#25 University of Southern California 3
#25 University of Virginia 2
#29 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1
#29 Wake Forest University 4
#32 Tufts University 1
#32 University of California: Santa Barbara 1
#34 University of California: Irvine 1
#36 Boston College 1
#38 University of California: Davis 1
#38 University of Texas at Austin 1
#38 University of Wisconsin-Madison 1
#41 Boston University 1
#44 Georgia Institute of Technology 1
#44 Northeastern University 2
#44 Tulane University 3
#51 Purdue University 2
#51 Spelman College 1
#55 Pepperdine University 1
#55 University of Miami 2
#62 George Washington University 2
#62 Syracuse University 3
LAC #13 Vassar College 1
#72 American University 2
#72 Hobart and William Smith Colleges 1
#72 Indiana University Bloomington 1
#72 Southern Methodist University 1
LAC #15 Grinnell College 1
LAC #15 Hamilton College 1
#77 Clemson University 2
#89 Howard University 1
#89 University of Delaware 2
LAC #18 Barnard College 2
LAC #18 Colgate University 3
LAC #18 University of Richmond 1
#105 Drexel University 2
#115 University of South Carolina: Columbia 1
#121 Temple University 2
#121 University of Vermont 1
#137 George Mason University 1
#149 University of Mary Washington 1
#151 University of Cincinnati 1
#166 Hofstra University 1
#182 Belmont University 1
SUNY University at Albany 1
#202 University of Detroit Mercy 1
#219 Hampton University 1
#299 Marymount University 1
Babson College 2
Coastal Carolina University 1
College of Charleston 2
Emerson College 1
High Point University 1
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University 1
Oberlin College 1
Ohio State University: Columbus Campus 1
Parsons The New School for Design 1
Penn State University Park 4
Pratt Institute 1
Robert Morris University: Chicago 1
Saint Joseph's University 1
Stevenson University 1
University of Colorado Boulder 2
University of Maryland: College Park 9
University of Tampa 1
University of Tennessee: Knoxville 1
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Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2023 2022 2021 2016-2020 2014-2018 Total
All schools 100 81 105 469 284
#1 Princeton University 2 2
#2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1 1
#3 Stanford University 1 1 2 4
#3 Harvard College 1 1 2 1 2 7
#5 Yale University 1 1 4 2 8
#6 University of Pennsylvania 4 2 3 8 4 21
#7 Duke University 1 1 6 6 14
#9 Northwestern University 1 5 3 9
#9 Brown University 1 1 1 2 5
#9 Johns Hopkins University 1 6 3 10
#12 University of Chicago 1 1 1 3
#12 Cornell University 2 2 6 6 16
#15 University of California: Berkeley 1 3 4 1 9
#15 University of California: Los Angeles 1 1 2 1 5
#17 Rice University 1 2 6 9
#18 Dartmouth College 3 2 2 7
#18 Vanderbilt University 1 2 2 5
#20 University of Notre Dame 3 1 4
#21 University of Michigan 3 4 2 20 14 43
#22 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1 2 1 5 1 10
#22 Georgetown University 1 1 8 8 18
#24 University of Virginia 2 4 3 10 10 29
#24 Emory University 1 1 1 1 2 6
#24 Carnegie Mellon University 2 2 4
#24 Washington University in St. Louis 1 2 7 4 14
#28 University of Southern California 3 1 2 11 7 24
#28 University of California: San Diego 1 3 2 6
#28 University of California: Davis 1 2 3 6
#28 University of Florida 1 1 2 1 5
#33 University of California: Irvine 1 1 2
#33 Georgia Institute of Technology 1 1 2 4
#35 University of Wisconsin-Madison 1 2 3 8 5 19
#35 New York University 4 3 2 9 11 29
#35 University of California: Santa Barbara 1 2 2 5
#38 University of Texas at Austin 1 1 2 4
#39 Boston College 1 1 5 2 9
#40 University of Washington 1 1
#40 Tufts University 1 2 2 4 2 11
#43 Boston University 1 1 3 5 10
#47 Wake Forest University 4 1 2 11 9 27
#47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2 1 8 11
#47 Texas A&M University 1 1
#47 University of Rochester 1 5 1 7
#47 University of Georgia 1 3 4
#47 Lehigh University 3 1 4
#51 Purdue University 2 2 1 5
#53 Case Western Reserve University 1 3 1 5
#53 Florida State University 1 2 3
#53 College of William and Mary 2 7 3 12
#53 University of Minnesota: Twin Cities 1 1 2
#53 Northeastern University 2 2 2 2 8
#58 University of Connecticut 2 2
#60 Michigan State University 2 2
#60 North Carolina State University 1 2 3
#60 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2 1 3
#60 Brandeis University 1 1 2 4
#67 University of Massachusetts Amherst 1 2 3
#67 Syracuse University 3 2 2 19 14 40
#67 University of Pittsburgh 1 5 6
#67 George Washington University 2 1 5 11 12 31
#67 Villanova University 1 1
#67 University of Miami 2 2 6 18 10 38
#73 Tulane University 3 6 16 11 36
#73 Indiana University Bloomington 1 1 2 7 5 16
#76 Stevens Institute of Technology 2 1 3
#76 University of Delaware 2 2 3 7
#76 Pepperdine University 1 1
#80 Brigham Young University 1 1
#82 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2 2
#86 Clemson University 2 5 5 12
#89 Fordham University 2 3 5
#89 Southern Methodist University 1 2 2 5
#89 Temple University 2 1 2 5
#93 Baylor University 1 1
#93 Loyola Marymount University 1 1 2
#93 Auburn University 3 3
#98 Drexel University 2 2 4 6 14
#98 University of Oregon 1 1
#98 Rochester Institute of Technology 1 1
#105 American University 2 1 8 8 19
#105 San Diego State University 1 1
#105 University of Colorado Boulder 2 4 1 10 4 21
#105 Arizona State University 1 1
#105 George Mason University 1 1 2
#105 University of Tennessee: Knoxville 1 1
#115 University of San Francisco 1 1
#115 Howard University 1 1 3 2 7
#115 University of Utah 1 1
#115 University of Arizona 3 3
#124 James Madison University 4 4
#124 University of Denver 3 1 4
#124 University of South Carolina: Columbia 1 2 2 5
#133 University of Houston 1 1
#133 SUNY University at Albany 1 1 2
#133 Miami University: Oxford 6 7 13
#133 University of Dayton 2 2
#133 Elon University 1 3 8 12
#133 Chapman University 1 1
#133 University of Vermont 1 3 1 7 12
#137 University of Alabama 1 2 3
#142 University of Cincinnati 1 1 2
#151 University of Kansas 1 1
#151 Colorado State University 2 2
#151 Duquesne University 1 1
#159 University of Kentucky 1 2 3
#163 St. John's University 2 2
#163 University of Mississippi 3 3
#185 University of Detroit Mercy 1 1
#185 Hofstra University 1 1
#195 East Carolina University 1 1 2
#209 Florida Atlantic University 1 1
#216 West Virginia University 2 2
#227 Widener University 4 4
#236 Belmont University 1 1
#249 Pace University 2 2
#260 Loyola University New Orleans 1 1
#269 Utah State University 1 1
#280 DeSales University 1 1
#280 Hampton University 1 2 3
#304 Radford University 1 1
#304 Middle Tennessee State University 1 1
#320 Campbell University 1 1
#320 Marymount University 1 1
#332 Morgan State University 1 1
#352 Eastern Kentucky University 1 1
University of Maryland: College Park 9 4 7 44 28 92
University of California: Santa Cruz 1 1 2
Penn State University Park 4 5 10 15 34
Ohio State University: Columbus Campus 1 2 2 8 1 14
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1 1 2 4
American International College 2 2
Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2023 2022 2021 2016-2020 2014-2018 Total
All schools 15 12 15 81 42
#3 United States Naval Academy 1 2 2 2 7
#4 Wellesley College 1 1
#4 Pomona College 1 1
#4 Swarthmore College 1 1
#7 United States Air Force Academy 1 4 1 6
#9 Carleton College 1 1
#9 Bowdoin College 1 1 2
#11 Barnard College 2 2
#11 Grinnell College 1 1
#11 Middlebury College 2 2 4
#11 Wesleyan University 1 1 3 5
#16 Davidson College 1 2 3
#16 Smith College 1 1
#16 Hamilton College 1 2 3
#16 Vassar College 1 1 2
#21 Haverford College 1 1
#21 Colgate University 3 4 2 9
#21 Washington and Lee University 2 2
#24 Bates College 2 2
#25 Colby College 2 2
#25 University of Richmond 1 2 3 6
#27 College of the Holy Cross 2 2 4
#30 Bucknell University 1 2 4 2 9
#33 Colorado College 2 1 3
#35 Occidental College 1 1 2
#35 Franklin & Marshall College 2 2
#38 Skidmore College 1 1 2 4
#39 Spelman College 1 1 2 4
#39 Kenyon College 1 1 1 3
#39 Trinity College 1 2 5 8
#39 Pitzer College 2 2
#39 Denison University 2 2
#46 Dickinson College 1 1 4 3 9
#46 Connecticut College 3 1 4
#51 St. Olaf College 1 1
#56 Rhodes College 1 1
#59 Wofford College 1 1
#63 Virginia Military Institute 1 1 2
#63 Gettysburg College 1 4 4 9
#67 Reed College 1 1
#70 Muhlenberg College 3 3
#70 Hobart and William Smith Colleges 1 1 2
#93 Drew University 1 1
#93 Washington College 3 3
#100 Morehouse College 1 2 3
#116 Hampden-Sydney College 1 1
#116 Ohio Wesleyan University 6 6
#124 Goucher College 1 1
#130 Eckerd College 1 1
#154 University of Mary Washington 1 1 2
#167 Guilford College 1 1
Oberlin College 1 1 2 4
Virginia Union University 1 1
United States Military Academy 1 1 1 3
Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2023 2022 2021 2016-2020 2014-2018 Total
All schools 0 0 1 2 0
#1 University of Toronto 1 1
#3 McGill University 2 2
Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2023 2022 2021 2016-2020 2014-2018 Total
All schools 0 2 0 0 0
#14 University of Sheffield 1 1
#83 University of Westminster 1 1

Academics

AP

(21)
Biology
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Chemistry
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
Biology
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Chemistry
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
Spanish Language and Culture
Statistics
Computer Science Principles
French Language and Culture
Physics C: Mechanics
Computer Science A
United States Government and Politics
English Literature and Composition
Music Theory
Studio Art: 2-D Design
Chinese Language and Culture
Comparative Government and Politics
Psychology
United States History
English Language and Composition
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Sports

(16)
Baseball
Basketball
Climbing
Crew
Cross Country
Field Hockey
Baseball
Basketball
Climbing
Crew
Cross Country
Field Hockey
American Football
Ice Hockey
Lacrosse
Soccer
Softball
Swimming
Tennis
Track and Field
Volleyball
Wrestling
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Extracurricular Activities and Clubs

(42)
Animal Rescue / Bullis Humane Society
Astronomy Club
Booster Club
Bulldog Productions
Bullis A
Capella
Animal Rescue / Bullis Humane Society
Astronomy Club
Booster Club
Bulldog Productions
Bullis A
Capella
Bullis Bakers
Bullis Black Student Union (BSU)
Business Gives Back
Chess Club
Community Service Leaders
DECA Club
Diversity Awareness at Bullis (DAB)
Educate Girls Globally (EGG)
Environmental Club
Exploring Asia
Girl Up
Improv Club
InLight Magazine
International Cuisine
It’s Academic
Kids Enjoy Exercise Now (KEEN)
Logos
Mock Trial Club
Math Club
Model UN
Poetry
PRISM Prom Committee
Random Acts of Kindness Club
RC2 (Robotics
Computers
and Communication)
Sexual Assault Awareness
Skiing and Snowboarding
Speech and Debate
Sports Data Analytics
Sports Debate Club
Stock Market Analysis Club
Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD)
UNICEF
Women in STEM (WiSTEM)
Young Leaders
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Arts

(15)
Acting
Band
Choir
Dance
Music Theory
Production
Acting
Band
Choir
Dance
Music Theory
Production
String
Theater
Digital Media
Drawing
Graphic Design
Painting
Photography
Sculpture
Studio Art
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Basic Info

Co-ed
Day S. Grades: PK-12
Urban
ESL: No
Year Founded: 1930
Campus Size: 102 acres
Religious Affiliation: No Religious Affiliation

Application Info

Interview: Zoom
Other Accepted Scores: ISEE, PSAT
School Code:
SSAT: 1960
ISEE: 210955
Recommended
Boarding
Oldfields School United States Flag
3.8
Recommended
Day school
Sanford School United States Flag
5.0

Frequently Ask Questions about The Bullis School

Tell me a bit about The Bullis School.
The Bullis School is Co-ed private day school located in Maryland, US. It was founded 1930 , and currently has about 1060 students, 4.00% of whom are international students.

For more official information, please visit http://www.bullis.org.
Does The Bullis School have rigorous academic requirements?
The Bullis School is offering 21 AP courses.

The Bullis School also have 49% of faculties whose degrees are master and above.
Where do The Bullis School students typically go for their colleges?
Based on the most recent matriculation data, 15.08% go to top 50 US universities and colleges*, 32.54% go to top 25, and about 7.94% go to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT.

*Ranking is based on the 2024 US News College Ranking.
What is the application requirement for The Bullis School?
Similar to most private schools in the US, The Bullis School’s typical admission requirements include school transcript, recommendation letter, application essay, and interview (often optional, but highly recommended).
What is the latest tuition for The Bullis School’s Co-ed student?
The total fee for The Bullis School in 2024 is $57,575 which typically includes tuition, boarding fee, student management fee and a few other fees associated with managing international students.

For more information, please contact school’s admission team at admission@bullis.org .
Where is The Bullis School located?
The Bullis School is located in the State of Maryland of USA. The closest major city is Washington, which is about 12 miles away from school. Most families can choose Washington Dulles International Airport to travel in and out of school.
How popular is The Bullis School on FindingSchool network?
Based on FindingSchool monthly traffic data as well as onsite search record, The Bullis School is among the most popular schools, within top 240 for all schools on FindingSchool.

Also The Bullis School has been favorited by 81 users.
How to start with an application with The Bullis School?
The first stop is to carefully review the school profile on FindingSchool to learn more about The Bullis School. Most of them are directly provided by the school.

Also it is highly recommended to visit The Bullis School’s official site: http://www.bullis.org or call them at 301-299-8500.
Please share a few nearby schools that are close to The Bullis School?
Yes, here are few: St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Connelly School Of The Holy Child and McLean School of Maryland.

The closest major city is Washington. You can find out more schools near Washington here.
What is the FindingSchool rating for The Bullis School?
The overall rating for The Bullis School is A.

The section ratings of The Bullis School are:
A+ for Matriculation
B+ for Academics
A for Extracurriculum
A for Community
B for Students and Parents reviews

Nearby City

Washington, D.C., the U.S. capital, is a vibrant city located along the Potomac River, bordered by Maryland and Virginia. Known for its neoclassical monuments and buildings, the city is home to the iconic landmarks of the U.S. government, including the Capitol, White House, and Supreme Court. Washington also boasts renowned museums like the Smithsonian and cultural venues such as the Kennedy Center. As the nation’s political and cultural hub, it attracts millions of visitors each year to experience its rich history and diverse attractions.

Population (2022) 591,833
Cost of Living Higher than average 39%

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