Rhodes scholarships

[Anonymous]

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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.

The bios the committee puts out of the students, which lists their college, major, what they plan to study, something about their extracurriculars. For example, there is no one this year that claims to be non-binary and that is a departure from past years.

[Anonymous]

MIT has 4! All women.

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Very few public state universities are represented despite the huge numbers of students attending a state uni. Just saw UW, Montana, UNC. Should be more ...

Strong representation from the military/air force academies - 5 winners.

Strong representations from MIT and ivies.

Congrats to Claremont Mckenna & Colby.

Congrats to GWU and Rutgers!

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Everyone should take note that one of these scholars went directly from high school into the military for three years, then to community college for two, and THEN to Princeton where he is a first-generation college student. This board is full of naysayers who dump on people for decisions like this. Here's proof that there is no single path to the Ivies, or to success, in life. So proud of this young man!

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One of the students from Yale sounds like such a normal kid: leadership in religious student group, orientation hike lesder, peer tutor, etc.

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Harvard sounds disappointed that they have their smallest number of American winners in recent history.

"This is the lowest number of American Harvard winners in recent memory — the College had five U.S. recipients in 2024, nine in 2023, six in 2022, four in 2021, and six in 2020."

[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.

I don't think this is how most LACs work, this is how some Ivies, especially Harvard, work in terms of the fellowship resources and advising available to high potential students.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Same number as UVA Nobel Prize winners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the students from Yale sounds like such a normal kid: leadership in religious student group, orientation hike lesder, peer tutor, etc.

Jewish kid chosen to appease the conservatives. I say this as a Jewish person.

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Do you have to be woke to win a Rhodes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Same number as UVA Nobel Prize winners. [/[b]quote]


you really need to get a life outside DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have to be woke to win a Rhodes?

it depends upon your intended subject matter of study and your district’s judges, but, generally, yes. https://www.rhodesinstitute.org/education/blocked-rhodes-prestigious-scholarship-accused-of-woke-anti-conservative-bias

[Anonymous]

UVA doesn’t win one every year but still has more winners than any state school—with UNC close behind and they did have another winner this year.

What’s funny is when posters insist that having lots of Rhodes winners mean nothing but as soon as UVA doesn’t win one they come on to gloat. You can’t have it both ways.

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Yale 3
Harvard 3
MIT 3
West Point 3
Brown 2
USAFA 2

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Anonymous wrote:MIT has 4! All women.

Actually, 3.