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 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 3 + |
| #3 | Harvard College | 3 + |
| #3 | Stanford University | 3 + |
| #3 | Yale University | 3 + |
| LAC #1 | Williams College | 3 + |
| #7 | Johns Hopkins University | 3 + |
| #7 | University of Pennsylvania | 3 + |
| #10 | Duke University | 3 + |
| #10 | Northwestern University | 3 + |
| LAC #2 | Amherst College | 3 + |
| #12 | Dartmouth College | 3 + |
| #13 | Brown University | 3 + |
| #15 | Washington University in St. Louis | 3 + |
| #17 | Cornell University | 3 + |
| #18 | Columbia University | 3 + |
| #18 | University of Notre Dame | 3 + |
| #22 | Carnegie Mellon University | 3 + |
| #22 | Emory University | 3 + |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 3 + |
| #25 | New York University | 3 + |
| LAC #5 | Wellesley College | 3 + |
| #29 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 3 + |
| #32 | Tufts University | 3 + |
| #36 | Boston College | 3 + |
| #41 | Boston University | 3 + |
| #44 | Brandeis University | 3 + |
| #44 | Northeastern University | 3 + |
| #44 | Tulane University | 3 + |
| LAC #11 | Middlebury College | 3 + |
| #62 | George Washington University | 3 + |
| #62 | Syracuse University | 3 + |
| LAC #15 | Hamilton College | 3 + |
| LAC #18 | Barnard College | 3 + |
| LAC #24 | Colby College | 3 + |
| LAC #25 | Bates College | 3 + |
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| Ranking | University/College | 2020-2023 | 2019-2022 | 2016-2020 | 2015-2019 | 2014-2018 | Total |
| All schools | 81 | 149 | 192 | 220 | 145 | ||
| #1 | Princeton University | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 13 | |
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 3 + | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 25 |
| #3 | Harvard College | 3 + | 15 | 26 | 27 | 23 | 94 |
| #3 | Stanford University | 3 + | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 20 |
| #5 | Yale University | 3 + | 7 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 45 |
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 3 + | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 19 |
| #7 | California Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #7 | Duke University | 3 + | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| #9 | Northwestern University | 3 + | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 24 |
| #9 | Brown University | 3 + | 8 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 35 |
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 3 + | 3 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 25 |
| #12 | University of Chicago | 6 | 7 | 6 | 19 | ||
| #12 | Columbia University | 3 + | 5 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 33 |
| #12 | Cornell University | 3 + | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 |
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 3 + | 7 | 7 | 7 | 24 | |
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #20 | University of Notre Dame | 3 + | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| #21 | University of Michigan | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |
| #22 | Georgetown University | 3 + | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 19 |
| #22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 3 + | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| #24 | University of Virginia | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | ||
| #24 | Emory University | 3 + | 7 | 3 | 1 | 14 | |
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 3 + | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 3 + | 9 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 30 |
| #28 | University of Southern California | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | ||
| #33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #35 | New York University | 3 + | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 29 |
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #39 | Boston College | 3 + | 13 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 37 |
| #40 | Tufts University | 3 + | 9 | 12 | 45 | 7 | 76 |
| #43 | Boston University | 3 + | 8 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 35 |
| #47 | Lehigh University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #48 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #53 | Northeastern University | 3 + | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| #53 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #53 | College of William and Mary | 3 | 2 | 5 | |||
| #58 | University of Connecticut | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #60 | Santa Clara University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #60 | Brandeis University | 3 + | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #67 | Syracuse University | 3 + | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| #67 | George Washington University | 3 + | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |
| #73 | Tulane University | 3 + | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| #82 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #89 | Southern Methodist University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #89 | Fordham University | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| #105 | American University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #115 | Howard University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #133 | University of Vermont | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | Elon University | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| #159 | University of Massachusetts Lowell | 1 | 1 | ||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2020-2023 | 2019-2022 | 2016-2020 | 2015-2019 | 2014-2018 | Total |
| All schools | 24 | 30 | 76 | 82 | 62 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 3 + | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | |
| #2 | Amherst College | 3 + | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 22 |
| #3 | United States Naval Academy | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #4 | Pomona College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #4 | Wellesley College | 3 + | 7 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 23 |
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #9 | Bowdoin College | 6 | 8 | 6 | 20 | ||
| #9 | Carleton College | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | ||
| #11 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #11 | Middlebury College | 3 + | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 16 |
| #11 | Barnard College | 3 + | 6 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 34 |
| #11 | Wesleyan University | 3 | 4 | 7 | |||
| #16 | Hamilton College | 3 + | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 22 |
| #16 | Smith College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #16 | Harvey Mudd College | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #16 | Davidson College | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 | |
| #16 | Vassar College | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | ||
| #21 | Colgate University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #21 | Haverford College | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | ||
| #24 | Bates College | 3 + | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| #25 | Colby College | 3 + | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 19 |
| #25 | University of Richmond | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #27 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #30 | Bryn Mawr College | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #30 | Bucknell University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #33 | Colorado College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #34 | Mount Holyoke College | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #35 | Scripps College | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #36 | Oberlin College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #39 | Kenyon College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #39 | Trinity College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #46 | Connecticut College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #46 | Dickinson College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2020-2023 | 2019-2022 | 2016-2020 | 2015-2019 | 2014-2018 | Total |
| All schools | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #3 | McGill University | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2020-2023 | 2019-2022 | 2016-2020 | 2015-2019 | 2014-2018 | Total |
| All schools | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #33 | University of St. Andrews | 3 | 3 | ||||
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