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

[Anonymous]

This is an honest question but I really know nothing about Rhodes Scholars. What does it take to apply and be accepted?

Also, is there somewhere that shows a more modern tally of winners per college? This list goes all the way back to 1904.

[Anonymous]

TJHSST. Graduates 420 kids a year. Founded 35 years ago. Just produced its 8th Rhodes Scholar. Also ha a MacArthur Genius Grant winner this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is an honest question but I really know nothing about Rhodes Scholars. What does it take to apply and be accepted?

Also, is there somewhere that shows a more modern tally of winners per college? This list goes all the way back to 1904.

Google.com

[Anonymous]

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

Rhodes has no accession program for credit-by-examination and Bachelors in Life Experience degrees.

[Anonymous]

That University of Washington really jumps out, doesn't it? I wonder why. Maybe they really encourage it? I never thought of Rhodes as something I could do, but then later went to grad school with several Rhodes scholars and regretted not even applying because I think I would have stood a chance.

Go Huskies!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Rhodes has no accession program for credit-by-examination and Bachelors in Life Experience degrees.

Sick burn sister!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJHSST. Graduates 420 kids a year. Founded 35 years ago. Just produced its 8th Rhodes Scholar. Also ha a MacArthur Genius Grant winner this year.

Good lord. TJ didn't produce any Rhodes scholars... their undergrad institution did.

If many of the top kids from the area go to TJ do you find this remarkable? Insecure TJ parents basking in the glory of the achievements of others....

[Anonymous]

Impressive list of schools. Go Huskies!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1 Harvard 369
2 Yale 252
3 Princeton 215
4 Stanford 102
5 US Military Academy 94
6 Dartmouth 63
7 Brown 57
8 UVA 54
9 MIT 52
10 U Chicago 51
11 US Naval Academy 48
12 Duke 47
13 UNC 44
14 US Air Force Academy 41
15 U Washington 37

https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/media/44935/2020-rs_number-of-winners-by-institution.pdf

Other "regionals" of note:

Georgetown 25
Johns Hopkins 21
Washington & Lee 17
VMI 9
Howard 3
U Maryland 2
Virginia Tech 2
UMBC 1
GWU 1

Most surprising absences?

UPenn
Columbia
Michigan
UC Berkeley
Cornell

[Anonymous]

also missing: Northwestern

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJHSST. Graduates 420 kids a year. Founded 35 years ago. Just produced its 8th Rhodes Scholar. Also ha a MacArthur Genius Grant winner this year.

Good lord. TJ didn't produce any Rhodes scholars... their undergrad institution did.

If many of the top kids from the area go to TJ do you find this remarkable? Insecure TJ parents basking in the glory of the achievements of others....

You really don’t find it remarkable that one HS in existence for 35 years produced more Rhodes Scholars than some large state schools did in 100+.? Really? Statistics say TJ had something to do with it. Even great HSs can go decades without an alum becoming a Rhodes Scholar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:also missing: Northwestern

Northwestern booster in the house! Welcome to the party.

[Anonymous]

rhodes is completely overrated. someone remind me why this is even a metric we should be paying attention to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 Harvard 369
2 Yale 252
3 Princeton 215
4 Stanford 102
5 US Military Academy 94
6 Dartmouth 63
7 Brown 57
8 UVA 54
9 MIT 52
10 U Chicago 51
11 US Naval Academy 48
12 Duke 47
13 UNC 44
14 US Air Force Academy 41
15 U Washington 37

https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/media/44935/2020-rs_number-of-winners-by-institution.pdf

Other "regionals" of note:

Georgetown 25
Johns Hopkins 21
Washington & Lee 17
VMI 9
Howard 3
U Maryland 2
Virginia Tech 2
UMBC 1
GWU 1

Most surprising absences?

UPenn
Columbia
Michigan
UC Berkeley
Cornell

Most surprised about Columbia. How are they not Top 15?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:rhodes is completely overrated. someone remind me why this is even a metric we should be paying attention to?

Ok, hon. Please let us know which scholarship meets your standards.