Rhodes scholarships

[Anonymous]

With the Rhodes scholars announced and only 2 of the scholars being liberal arts college grads-Colby and Claremont McKenna- do we think that liberal arts colleges have finally reached historic lows in popularity

[Anonymous]

Word is UVA has three alone this year! Congrats!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With the Rhodes scholars announced and only 2 of the scholars being liberal arts college grads-Colby and Claremont McKenna- do we think that liberal arts colleges have finally reached historic lows in popularity

Sewanee had one, too. It's definitely a LAC despite having "university" in its official name.

[Anonymous]

A very small percentage of college students go to liberal arts schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A very small percentage of college students go to liberal arts schools.

Exactly. The fact that there’s more than 1 each year is surprising.

[Anonymous]

LACs enroll 5 percent of all students, and they have 3 out of 32 (9 percent) Rhodes designations.

Maybe the better question is why there are only 5 (16 percent) from state universities, which educate more than 75 percent of college students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Word is UVA has three alone this year! Congrats!

I don't think UVA had any this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Word is UVA has three alone this year! Congrats!

I don't think UVA had any this year.

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Zero. The UVA/Rhodes booster will be sad.

[Anonymous]

Great showing for USMA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Word is UVA has three alone this year! Congrats!

I don't think UVA had any this year.

I don't see UVA on the list of American winners, but it's possible there are international students at UVA that were selected. There are still a lot of empty bios on the Rhodes site. University of Richmond has an international student who was selected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Word is UVA has three alone this year! Congrats!

I don't think UVA had any this year.

I don't see UVA on the list of American winners, but it's possible there are international students at UVA that were selected. There are still a lot of empty bios on the Rhodes site. University of Richmond has an international student who was selected.

There are no winners from UVA, international or otherwise.

[Anonymous]

The military academies basically identify certain students as freshmen who they think are Rhodes caliber, and then they groom them very intentionally. The LACS are often similar -- small schools, intensive interactions with the students. The applications get read a dozen times before the student submits them, they control who gets to apply (may only recommend one or two students every year to apply), and they do practice interviews with the students (and I imagine the military students interview really well.)

If big state schools aren't having students win these awards, it's likely they don't have the same kind of emphasis and pipelines for creating these applications.

As someone who has sat on a lot of interview committees for a lot of these types of awards, what I am struck by is that it truly seems like the end of political correctness or wokeness or whatever you want to call it. These applicants this year read much more traditional to me -- fewer social justice type projects for the students, fewer social justice majors, and I'm wondering about racial and ethnic demographics. It would be interesting to compare this year's crop with the previous five years or so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The military academies basically identify certain students as freshmen who they think are Rhodes caliber, and then they groom them very intentionally. The LACS are often similar -- small schools, intensive interactions with the students. The applications get read a dozen times before the student submits them, they control who gets to apply (may only recommend one or two students every year to apply), and they do practice interviews with the students (and I imagine the military students interview really well.)

If big state schools aren't having students win these awards, it's likely they don't have the same kind of emphasis and pipelines for creating these applications.

As someone who has sat on a lot of interview committees for a lot of these types of awards, what I am struck by is that it truly seems like the end of political correctness or wokeness or whatever you want to call it. These applicants this year read much more traditional to me -- fewer social justice type projects for the students, fewer social justice majors, and I'm wondering about racial and ethnic demographics. It would be interesting to compare this year's crop with the previous five years or so.

How can you get a “read” on this year’s applicants? You can’t unless you served on a district committee. Rhodes is notoriously woke at Oxford and derided for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Word is UVA has three alone this year! Congrats!

I don't think UVA had any this year.

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Zero. The UVA/Rhodes booster will be sad.

They really got to you, didn’t they? Lolol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LACs enroll 5 percent of all students, and they have 3 out of 32 (9 percent) Rhodes designations.

Maybe the better question is why there are only 5 (16 percent) from state universities, which educate more than 75 percent of college students.

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