<p>I know that the Boarding School Review website is a quite popular research tool here in CC. As a token of my appreciation for lots of useful information I've been getting from this forum, I wanted to share a couple of websites that I liked as comparison tools. Here you go:</p>
<pre><code>FindTheBest
Matriculation Stats
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<p>I hope you all enjoy the journey and find the right school for you or your DC.</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
<p>How does the Smart Rating work? Doesn’t make any sense to me.</p>
<p>Wow, Smart rating looks like a fake rating to lure students. :(</p>
<p>It’s based on composite statistics including “average SAT scores, SSAT average percentile, student-to-teacher ratios, endowments per student, and percent of faculty with advanced degrees.” This makes sense to me. I believe US News, Newsweek, etc. uses similar ranking metrics for colleges.</p>
<p>I don’t then see how Taft is a 94. It’s on par, and even better than Loomis matriculation-wise.</p>
<p>Your second link didn’t work. Try this one instead.</p>
<p>[Matriculation</a> Stats](<a href=“http://matriculationstats.org/]Matriculation”>http://matriculationstats.org/)</p>