Top 15 List: Schools that have produced the most Rhodes Scholars

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No one cares.

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Anonymous wrote:No one cares.

Yet you cared enough to read and post.

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My alma mater, Reed College has the largest number for its student body size (32). Interesting that University of Washington is also up there...a lot of representation from the PNW.

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Anonymous wrote:Ouch. Not a good look for UMD. Howard and VMI have produced more Rhodes Scholars than UMD.

Rhodes favors liberal arts schools. UMD is heavy STEM.

ah, yes, that noted liberal arts school of *checks notes* MIT. yeah, ok...

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You have to control for three things here to be able to compare

1) When was the University founded. The Rhodes program started around 1899, so many schools that were found around that time will obviously be very much behind
2) How many apply from each school every year?
3) Normalize for school size

Without that this number is meaningless

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On closer examination, it's clear this was posted by a UVA booster. Does the UVA admissions office have some sort of referrals program?

I’m going with Naval Academy booster.

Maybe a USMA booster...those pesky Service Academy's with their mouth breathing unintellectual war mongers.

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Anonymous wrote:You have to control for three things here to be able to compare

1) When was the University founded. The Rhodes program started around 1899, so many schools that were found around that time will obviously be very much behind
2) How many apply from each school every year?
3) Normalize for school size

Without that this number is meaningless

Most people don't seem to undestand data analysis.

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Anonymous wrote:You have to control for three things here to be able to compare

1) When was the University founded. The Rhodes program started around 1899, so many schools that were found around that time will obviously be very much behind
2) How many apply from each school every year?
3) Normalize for school size

Without that this number is meaningless

There is also a geographic element to the Rhodes - so schools which draw from a limited geography may have fewer candidates because they will all be applying in one of the 16 regions, while someplace like Harvard could have people applying in all 16.

My 1800 person SLAC has had 18, which isn't bad. Two of them were good friends of mine and they were definitely encouraged by/supported by the college.

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Anonymous wrote:You have to control for three things here to be able to compare

1) When was the University founded. The Rhodes program started around 1899, so many schools that were found around that time will obviously be very much behind
2) How many apply from each school every year?
3) Normalize for school size

Without that this number is meaningless

UMD was founded in 1856. And has 31,000 undergrad students. What other data do you need?

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Davidson has a good number for such a small school, 23 I believe.

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Anonymous wrote:Ouch. Not a good look for UMD. Howard and VMI have produced more Rhodes Scholars than UMD.

2 is a shockingly low number for UMD.

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Surprised to see Sewanee with 26!

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Anonymous wrote:Surprised to see Sewanee with 26!

Sneaky good school. With a great undergrad experience.

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Op is obviously uva booster

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OP obviously has an ax to grind with UMD.