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 |
| #2 | Columbia University | 1 |
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #8 | University of Pennsylvania | 2 |
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 |
| LAC #2 | Amherst College | 1 |
| #14 | Brown University | 1 |
| #17 | Cornell University | 1 |
| #22 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 |
| #25 | Carnegie Mellon University | 2 |
| #27 | University of Southern California | 1 |
| #28 | New York University | 2 |
| LAC #6 | Bowdoin College | 1 |
| #34 | University of California: San Diego | 2 |
| #36 | Boston College | 1 |
| #36 | University of California: Irvine | 1 |
| #42 | Boston University | 1 |
| #42 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 |
| #42 | Tulane University | 2 |
| #42 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 |
| #49 | Lehigh University | 2 |
| #49 | Northeastern University | 1 |
| #49 | Purdue University | 1 |
| #55 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 |
| #55 | Rhodes College | 1 |
| #55 | Santa Clara University | 1 |
| #55 | University of Miami | 3 |
| #57 | Penn State University Park | 1 |
| #57 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 |
| #59 | Syracuse University | 1 |
| #59 | University of Maryland: College Park | 2 |
| #63 | George Washington University | 1 |
| #63 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1 |
| LAC #13 | Davidson College | 2 |
| #75 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 2 |
| #79 | American University | 4 |
| LAC #16 | Haverford College | 2 |
| #89 | Ursinus College | 2 |
| #93 | University of Delaware | 2 |
| #103 | Drexel University | 2 |
| #103 | Loyola University Chicago | 1 |
| #103 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #103 | University of San Francisco | 2 |
| #104 | University of Colorado Boulder | 2 |
| #117 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 |
| #117 | University of Vermont | 2 |
| #120 | Hampshire College | 1 |
| #127 | Seton Hall University | 2 |
| #136 | Catholic University of America | 2 |
| #148 | Duquesne University | 1 |
| LAC #38 | Bucknell University | 2 |
| LAC #38 | Franklin & Marshall College | 2 |
| #202 | Springfield College | 1 |
| #202 | University of North Carolina at Wilmington | 1 |
| LAC #42 | Denison University | 1 |
| LAC #50 | Dickinson College | 1 |
| LAC #50 | The University of the South | 1 |
| LAC #61 | Gettysburg College | 1 |
| Art Center College of Design | 1 | |
| Cleveland Institute of Music | 1 | |
| College of Charleston | 1 | |
| Kutztown University of Pennsylvania | 1 | |
| long island university-liu post | 1 | |
| New Orleans Wake Forest University | 1 | |
| Penn State University Behrend | 1 | |
| Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology | 1 | |
| Washington & Jefferson College | 2 |
| Matriculation | |||||||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2014-2019 | Total |
| All schools | 67 | 43 | 44 | 44 | 156 | ||
| #1 | Princeton University | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #3 | Harvard College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #3 | Stanford University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #5 | Yale University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #6 | University of Pennsylvania | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 22 |
| #7 | Duke University | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #9 | Brown University | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| #9 | Northwestern University | 5 | 5 | ||||
| #9 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| #12 | University of Chicago | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #12 | Cornell University | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||
| #12 | Columbia University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #15 | University of California: Berkeley | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #15 | University of California: Los Angeles | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #18 | Dartmouth College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #18 | Vanderbilt University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #20 | University of Notre Dame | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #21 | University of Michigan | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #22 | Georgetown University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #24 | University of Virginia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #24 | Emory University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 2 | 7 | 9 | |||
| #24 | Washington University in St. Louis | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | ||
| #28 | University of California: Davis | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #28 | University of Southern California | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #28 | University of California: San Diego | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #33 | University of California: Irvine | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #35 | New York University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 12 | |
| #35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #38 | University of Texas at Austin | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Boston College | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #40 | University of Washington | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #40 | Tufts University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | |
| #40 | Rutgers University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #43 | Boston University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | |
| #46 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #47 | Wake Forest University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #47 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #47 | Lehigh University | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| #49 | Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #49 | Purdue University | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| #53 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #53 | College of William and Mary | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
| #53 | University of Minnesota: Twin Cities | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #53 | Northeastern University | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | |
| #57 | Penn State University Park | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 13 | |
| #58 | University of Connecticut | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #59 | University of Maryland: College Park | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | ||
| #60 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #60 | Santa Clara University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #67 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #67 | Villanova University | 2 | 4 | 6 | |||
| #67 | University of Pittsburgh | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 16 | |
| #67 | Syracuse University | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | ||
| #67 | George Washington University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #67 | University of Miami | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | ||
| #73 | Tulane University | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | ||
| #73 | Indiana University Bloomington | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #73 | SUNY University at Binghamton | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #76 | University of Delaware | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #82 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #86 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #89 | Southern Methodist University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #89 | Fordham University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #89 | Temple University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #93 | University of Iowa | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #98 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| #98 | Drexel University | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | ||
| #98 | University of Oregon | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #105 | University of Tennessee: Knoxville | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #105 | American University | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 18 | |
| #105 | University of Colorado Boulder | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
| #115 | University of San Francisco | 2 | 3 | 5 | |||
| #124 | University of Denver | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #124 | James Madison University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #124 | Fairfield University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | SUNY University at Albany | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #133 | University of Vermont | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | |
| #133 | Elon University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #142 | Loyola University Chicago | 1 | 1 + | 2 | |||
| #142 | Virginia Commonwealth University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #151 | Michigan Technological University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #151 | Seton Hall University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #151 | Duquesne University | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #178 | Catholic University of America | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #201 | Xavier University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #201 | The New School College of Performing Arts | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #201 | University of North Carolina at Wilmington | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #216 | Springfield College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #216 | West Virginia University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #249 | Pace University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #280 | Hampton University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #342 | Lesley University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #369 | Regent University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #369 | long island university-liu post | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2014-2019 | Total |
| All schools | 18 | 30 | 34 | 21 | 112 | ||
| #1 | Williams College | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| #2 | Amherst College | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| #4 | Pomona College | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #4 | Wellesley College | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| #4 | Swarthmore College | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| #9 | Carleton College | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #9 | Bowdoin College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #11 | Barnard College | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | ||
| #11 | Middlebury College | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #11 | Grinnell College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #11 | United States Military Academy | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #11 | Wesleyan University | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | ||
| #16 | Hamilton College | 1 | 5 | 6 | |||
| #16 | Harvey Mudd College | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #16 | Vassar College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| #16 | Smith College | 3 | 3 | 6 | |||
| #16 | Davidson College | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
| #21 | Haverford College | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 22 |
| #21 | Colgate University | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| #21 | Washington and Lee University | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #24 | Bates College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #25 | University of Richmond | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | |
| #25 | Colby College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #27 | Macalester College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #30 | Lafayette College | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | |
| #30 | Oberlin College | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #30 | Bucknell University | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | |
| #30 | Bryn Mawr College | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | ||
| #33 | Colorado College | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #34 | Mount Holyoke College | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #35 | Franklin & Marshall College | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 15 |
| #35 | Occidental College | 3 | 3 | ||||
| #38 | Skidmore College | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | ||
| #39 | Denison University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Pitzer College | 2 | 2 | ||||
| #39 | Spelman College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #39 | Kenyon College | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| #46 | Dickinson College | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| #46 | Connecticut College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #51 | The University of the South | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #56 | Wheaton College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #56 | Rhodes College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| #59 | St. Lawrence University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #63 | Gettysburg College | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| #63 | Virginia Military Institute | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #70 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #75 | Wheaton College-Norton-MA | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #86 | Ursinus College | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| #93 | Washington College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #100 | Sarah Lawrence College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #100 | Earlham College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #112 | Bennington College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #116 | Ohio Wesleyan University | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #124 | Goucher College | 1 | 1 | ||||
| #139 | Hampshire College | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
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| Ranking | University/College | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2014-2019 | Total |
| All schools | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| #1 | University of Toronto | 1 | 1 | ||||
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Poetry Club
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Math Club
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Cooking Club
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Classics Club
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Fantasy Club
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Magic Club
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Sports Nutrition Club
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Westtown Democrats Association
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Green Coalition
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Rainbow Alliance
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Students of Color Association (SOCA)
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Sexual Health Awareness & Education (SHAE)
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Asian Students Association (ASA)
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Latinx Leadership Forum (LLF)
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Westtown Affinity Group for Gender & Sexuality (WAGGS)
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