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 | 2 |
| #3 | Harvard College | 1 |
| LAC #1 | Williams College | 2 |
| #7 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 |
| #7 | University of Pennsylvania | 4 |
| #12 | Dartmouth College | 1 |
| #15 | Rice University | 1 |
| #17 | Cornell University | 4 |
| #18 | University of Notre Dame | 2 |
| LAC #4 | Swarthmore College | 2 |
| #22 | Emory University | 1 |
| #25 | University of Virginia | 2 |
| #29 | Wake Forest University | 3 |
| LAC #6 | United States Naval Academy | 3 |
| #36 | University of Rochester | 1 |
| #38 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2 |
| #41 | Boston University | 1 |
| #44 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 |
| #44 | Northeastern University | 1 |
| #44 | Tulane University | 1 |
| #51 | Lehigh University | 2 |
| #51 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 |
| #55 | Santa Clara University | 1 |
| #55 | University of Miami | 3 |
| #62 | Syracuse University | 2 |
| #62 | University of Pittsburgh | 3 |
| #72 | American University | 1 |
| #72 | Fordham University | 2 |
| #72 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 1 |
| #72 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 |
| #72 | Southern Methodist University | 2 |
| #89 | Elon University | 1 |
| #89 | Howard University | 1 |
| #89 | University of Delaware | 1 |
| LAC #18 | Colgate University | 1 |
| LAC #18 | United States Air Force Academy | 1 |
| LAC #18 | University of Richmond | 1 |
| LAC #18 | Wesleyan University | 1 |
| Auburn University | 1 | |
| #105 | Drexel University | 2 |
| #105 | University of Oregon | 1 |
| #115 | University of South Carolina: Columbia | 1 |
| LAC #24 | Colby College | 1 |
| #121 | Temple University | 2 |
| #124 | Morehouse College | 1 |
| LAC #25 | Bates College | 1 |
| #137 | University of Alabama | 1 |
| SUNY University at Albany | 1 | |
| LAC #37 | Bucknell University | 2 |
| LAC #37 | Occidental College | 1 |
| LAC #39 | Lafayette College | 2 |
| #202 | Florida Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #219 | Hampton University | 2 |
| #250 | West Chester University of Pennsylvania | 1 |
| LAC #51 | Dickinson College | 1 |
| LAC #61 | Gettysburg College | 1 |
| Appalachian State University | 1 | |
| binghamton university, state university of new york | 1 | |
| Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | |
| Jewish Theological Seminary of America | 1 | |
| North Carolina Central University | 1 | |
| Norwich University | 1 | |
| Penn State University Park | 7 | |
| Queen's University | 1 | |
| Rutgers University | 1 | |
| Saint Joseph's University | 2 | |
| St. John's University | 1 | |
| thomas jefferson university-east falls campus | 1 | |
| United States Military Academy | 2 | |
| University of Colorado Boulder | 2 | |
| University of St. Andrews | 1 |
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2018-2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 74 | 350 | 59 | 83 | 66 | ||
| #1 | Princeton University | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #3 | Stanford University | 4 | 1 | 1 admitted | 6 | ||
| #3 | Harvard College | 1 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 13 | |
| #5 | Yale University | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 4 | 26 | 3 | 2 | 8 admitted | 43 |
| #7 | Duke University | 5 | 1 | 2 admitted | 8 | ||
| #7 | California Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #9 | Brown University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #12 | Cornell University | 4 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 admitted | 19 |
| #12 | University of Chicago | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 admitted | 12 | |
| #12 | Columbia University | 2 | 1 admitted | 3 | |||
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #17 | Rice University | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 1 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 13 | |
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 7 | |
| #20 | University of Notre Dame | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 admitted | 13 | |
| #21 | University of Michigan | 10 | 3 | 1 admitted | 14 | ||
| #22 | Georgetown University | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 admitted | 11 | |
| #22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| #24 | Emory University | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 3 | ||
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 5 | 1 | 6 | |||
| #24 | University of Virginia | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 admitted | 12 | |
| #28 | University of Southern California | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #28 | University of California: San Diego | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | New York University | 5 | 2 | 2 admitted | 9 | ||
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #39 | Boston College | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 8 | |
| #40 | Rutgers University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #40 | Tufts University | 5 | 2 | 1 admitted | 8 | ||
| #43 | Boston University | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | ||
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 3 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 2 admitted | 23 |
| #47 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #47 | Lehigh University | 2 | 11 | 4 | 4 admitted | 21 | |
| #47 | University of Rochester | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #51 | Purdue University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #53 | College of William and Mary | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #53 | University of Minnesota: Twin Cities | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #53 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 admitted | 9 | |
| #53 | Northeastern University | 1 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 admitted | 15 |
| #60 | Santa Clara University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #60 | Brandeis University | 2 | 1 admitted | 3 | |||
| #67 | University of Miami | 3 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 admitted | 23 |
| #67 | Villanova University | 15 | 2 | 5 | 4 admitted | 26 | |
| #67 | Syracuse University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #67 | University of Pittsburgh | 3 | 3 | 1 admitted | 7 | ||
| #67 | George Washington University | 2 | 1 admitted | 3 | |||
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 1 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 14 | |
| #73 | Tulane University | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #76 | University of Delaware | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| #86 | Clemson University | 5 | 1 | 6 | |||
| #89 | Fordham University | 2 | 2 | 1 admitted | 5 | ||
| #89 | Southern Methodist University | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 10 |
| #89 | Temple University | 2 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 21 | |
| #93 | Auburn University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #98 | Texas Christian University | 3 | 1 admitted | 4 | |||
| #98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | Drexel University | 2 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 2 admitted | 16 |
| #98 | University of Oregon | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #105 | American University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #105 | San Diego State University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | ||
| #115 | Howard University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #115 | University of Utah | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #115 | University of Arizona | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #124 | University of South Carolina: Columbia | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #124 | Fairfield University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #133 | Elon University | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #133 | Miami University: Oxford | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
| #133 | SUNY University at Albany | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | University of Dayton | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #137 | University of Alabama | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #142 | Clarkson University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #151 | University of Rhode Island | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | ||
| #163 | University of Mississippi | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #163 | St. John's University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #170 | Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #178 | Catholic University of America | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #195 | University of Louisville | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #201 | La Salle University | 5 | 2 | 2 admitted | 9 | ||
| #209 | West Chester University of Pennsylvania | 1 | 3 | 2 admitted | 6 | ||
| #227 | Widener University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #269 | Wilkes University | 1 | 1 admitted | 2 | |||
| #269 | Florida Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #280 | Hampton University | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | ||
| #304 | University of Hartford | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #352 | Point Park University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Penn State University Park | 7 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 5 admitted | 39 | |
| University of Maryland: College Park | 3 | 2 | 1 admitted | 6 | |||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2018-2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 25 | 133 | 35 | 21 | 21 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 11 | |
| #2 | Amherst College | 5 | 1 | 6 | |||
| #3 | United States Naval Academy | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 admitted | 11 | |
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #7 | United States Air Force Academy | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #9 | Bowdoin College | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | ||
| #11 | Wesleyan University | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| #11 | Middlebury College | 4 | 3 | 7 | |||
| #16 | Davidson College | 4 | 1 | 2 admitted | 7 | ||
| #16 | Vassar College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #21 | Colgate University | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 admitted | 9 |
| #21 | Haverford College | 2 | 1 | 1 admitted | 4 | ||
| #21 | Washington and Lee University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #24 | Bates College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #25 | University of Richmond | 1 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 5 admitted | 26 |
| #25 | Colby College | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| #27 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #30 | Lafayette College | 2 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 17 | |
| #30 | Bucknell University | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 admitted | 15 | |
| #35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 1 | 8 | 1 | 2 admitted | 12 | |
| #35 | Occidental College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #38 | Skidmore College | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #39 | Kenyon College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Trinity College | 7 | 2 | 2 admitted | 11 | ||
| #39 | Denison University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #45 | Union College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #46 | Connecticut College | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #46 | DePauw University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #46 | Dickinson College | 1 | 12 | 4 | 3 admitted | 20 | |
| #56 | Rhodes College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #63 | Gettysburg College | 1 | 2 | 1 admitted | 4 | ||
| #70 | Muhlenberg College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #70 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #72 | Bard College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #86 | Ursinus College | 2 | 1 admitted | 3 | |||
| #93 | Drew University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #93 | Washington College | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #100 | Morehouse College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #107 | Susquehanna University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #107 | Lycoming College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #146 | Albright College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #167 | Guilford College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #182 | ave maria university | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| United States Military Academy | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2018-2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| #3 | McGill University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #9 | University of Waterloo | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Queen's University | 1 | 1 | ||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2018-2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Total |
| All schools | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #33 | University of St. Andrews | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
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