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

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WVU has 25.

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Anonymous wrote:WVU has 25.

23 more than Maryland. Yikes

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Anonymous wrote:Go Tar Heels! (Too bad Duke is ever-so-slightly ahead of us...grrr)

They have 2 this year!

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Anonymous wrote:Go Tar Heels! (Too bad Duke is ever-so-slightly ahead of us...grrr)

They have 2 this year![/quote

And UNC had 1. Impressive for both schools.

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I just read a beautiful article by UVA's president about the selection of Eileen Ying '20 and the role of the Office of Citizen Scholar Development. I think that you will find a similar office at many of the Rhodes-heavy universities. Growing Rhodes scholars takes cultivation!

UMD does have an office that helps students to apply for national and international post-graduation fellowships, but perhaps it is newer? The only time that I have heard it mentioned was at my DC's Banneker Key luncheon. My general impression is that the top students are UMD are likely to want to go to med school or straight into a lucrative computer science career. The Rhodes Scholarship seems to be more for future Ph.D types, whether they are in the humanities or in engineering.

Some of the universities on the list benefit from having a truly geographically diverse student body. A HYPS school could have Rhodes winners representing the regions of Texas, California, Ontario, Bermuda, and South Africa, all in the same year! UMD is unlikely to have this sort of geographic diversity.

Here is the article from the UVA president: https://uvamagazine.org/articles/from_the_president_uvas_road_to_rhodes_and_why_it_matters

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Anonymous wrote:I just read a beautiful article by UVA's president about the selection of Eileen Ying '20 and the role of the Office of Citizen Scholar Development. I think that you will find a similar office at many of the Rhodes-heavy universities. Growing Rhodes scholars takes cultivation!

UMD does have an office that helps students to apply for national and international post-graduation fellowships, but perhaps it is newer? The only time that I have heard it mentioned was at my DC's Banneker Key luncheon. My general impression is that the top students are UMD are likely to want to go to med school or straight into a lucrative computer science career. The Rhodes Scholarship seems to be more for future Ph.D types, whether they are in the humanities or in engineering.

Some of the universities on the list benefit from having a truly geographically diverse student body. A HYPS school could have Rhodes winners representing the regions of Texas, California, Ontario, Bermuda, and South Africa, all in the same year! UMD is unlikely to have this sort of geographic diversity.

Here is the article from the UVA president: https://uvamagazine.org/articles/from_the_president_uvas_road_to_rhodes_and_why_it_matters

Nice attempt at an excuse for UMD. Why does MIT have so many Rhodes Scholars? Guessing they might also have a path to lucrative computer science careers. Right?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just read a beautiful article by UVA's president about the selection of Eileen Ying '20 and the role of the Office of Citizen Scholar Development. I think that you will find a similar office at many of the Rhodes-heavy universities. Growing Rhodes scholars takes cultivation!

UMD does have an office that helps students to apply for national and international post-graduation fellowships, but perhaps it is newer? The only time that I have heard it mentioned was at my DC's Banneker Key luncheon. My general impression is that the top students are UMD are likely to want to go to med school or straight into a lucrative computer science career. The Rhodes Scholarship seems to be more for future Ph.D types, whether they are in the humanities or in engineering.

Some of the universities on the list benefit from having a truly geographically diverse student body. A HYPS school could have Rhodes winners representing the regions of Texas, California, Ontario, Bermuda, and South Africa, all in the same year! UMD is unlikely to have this sort of geographic diversity.

Here is the article from the UVA president: https://uvamagazine.org/articles/from_the_president_uvas_road_to_rhodes_and_why_it_matters

Nice attempt at an excuse for UMD. Why does MIT have so many Rhodes Scholars? Guessing they might also have a path to lucrative computer science careers. Right?

There are many students who have a path to lucrative computer science careers. There are those who choose a PhD path in engineering or the sciences, despite the fact that they could go directly into industry. As a UMD mom, I just haven't met many UMD students passionate about pursuing PhDs. I'm a HYPS grad, by the way, and personally know two Rhodes Scholars.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just read a beautiful article by UVA's president about the selection of Eileen Ying '20 and the role of the Office of Citizen Scholar Development. I think that you will find a similar office at many of the Rhodes-heavy universities. Growing Rhodes scholars takes cultivation!

UMD does have an office that helps students to apply for national and international post-graduation fellowships, but perhaps it is newer? The only time that I have heard it mentioned was at my DC's Banneker Key luncheon. My general impression is that the top students are UMD are likely to want to go to med school or straight into a lucrative computer science career. The Rhodes Scholarship seems to be more for future Ph.D types, whether they are in the humanities or in engineering.

Some of the universities on the list benefit from having a truly geographically diverse student body. A HYPS school could have Rhodes winners representing the regions of Texas, California, Ontario, Bermuda, and South Africa, all in the same year! UMD is unlikely to have this sort of geographic diversity.

Here is the article from the UVA president: https://uvamagazine.org/articles/from_the_president_uvas_road_to_rhodes_and_why_it_matters

Nice attempt at an excuse for UMD. Why does MIT have so many Rhodes Scholars? Guessing they might also have a path to lucrative computer science careers. Right?

There are many students who have a path to lucrative computer science careers. There are those who choose a PhD path in engineering or the sciences, despite the fact that they could go directly into industry. As a UMD mom, I just haven't met many UMD students passionate about pursuing PhDs. I'm a HYPS grad, by the way, and personally know two Rhodes Scholars.

There are those, sorry.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Reed is a great school that draws a super driven student. Not surprising at all.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just read a beautiful article by UVA's president about the selection of Eileen Ying '20 and the role of the Office of Citizen Scholar Development. I think that you will find a similar office at many of the Rhodes-heavy universities. Growing Rhodes scholars takes cultivation!

UMD does have an office that helps students to apply for national and international post-graduation fellowships, but perhaps it is newer? The only time that I have heard it mentioned was at my DC's Banneker Key luncheon. My general impression is that the top students are UMD are likely to want to go to med school or straight into a lucrative computer science career. The Rhodes Scholarship seems to be more for future Ph.D types, whether they are in the humanities or in engineering.

Some of the universities on the list benefit from having a truly geographically diverse student body. A HYPS school could have Rhodes winners representing the regions of Texas, California, Ontario, Bermuda, and South Africa, all in the same year! UMD is unlikely to have this sort of geographic diversity.

Here is the article from the UVA president: https://uvamagazine.org/articles/from_the_president_uvas_road_to_rhodes_and_why_it_matters

Nice attempt at an excuse for UMD. Why does MIT have so many Rhodes Scholars? Guessing they might also have a path to lucrative computer science careers. Right?

There are many students who have a path to lucrative computer science careers. There are those who choose a PhD path in engineering or the sciences, despite the fact that they could go directly into industry. As a UMD mom, I just haven't met many UMD students passionate about pursuing PhDs. I'm a HYPS grad, by the way, and personally know two Rhodes Scholars.

Honest question: of the 31,000 UMD undergrads, how many have you met?

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Anonymous wrote:Op is obviously uva booster

Wouldn’t a UVA booster have done a Top 10 list??? Why go to 15? I’m not sure here.

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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

Cornell - 31
Michigan - 27
Columbia - 27
Berkeley - 24
Penn - 23

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Anonymous wrote:

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

Cornell - 31
Michigan - 27
Columbia - 27
Berkeley - 24
Penn - 23

"Regional" Washington & Lee has produced 17 Rhodes Scholars to "National" UVA's 55. But wait! UVA has 9.3X as many undergraduate students. On a per capita basis, W&L has produced about 3X as many Rhodes Scholars as UVA. The miracles of math. . .

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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?

+10000000000000000000. This is a joke post.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Cornell - 31
Michigan - 27
Columbia - 27
Berkeley - 24
Penn - 23

"Regional" Washington & Lee has produced 17 Rhodes Scholars to "National" UVA's 55. But wait! UVA has 9.3X as many undergraduate students. On a per capita basis, W&L has produced about 3X as many Rhodes Scholars as UVA. The miracles of math. . .

Sour grapes.