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

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Anonymous wrote:I did a quick Google when I looked at this and found the following passage on Harvard. It explains why you don't see Harvard grads on DCUM boosting or defending their school. It doesn't need defending. Its success speaks for itself. It seems most others here (including me occasionally) feel insecure enough about their alma maters standing to get into these tit for tats:

Harvard has more alumni, faculty, and researchers who are Nobel laureates (161) and Fields Medal winners (18) than any other university in the world and more alumni who are members of the U.S. Congress, MacArthur Fellows, Rhodes Scholars (375), and Marshall Scholars (252) than any other university in the United States.[18] Its alumni also include eight U.S. presidents and 188 living billionaires, the most of any university. Fourteen Turing Award laureates have been affiliated with Harvard. Students and alumni have also won ten Academy Awards, 48 Pulitzer Prizes, and 108 Olympic medals (46 gold medals), and they have founded many notable companies.

Yeah, but do they have many Tik Tok influencers?

from Wiki,

"From 1951 to 1997, 32% of American Rhodes Scholars pursued careers in education and academia, 20% in law, 15% in business and 10% in medicine and science.[89] Although Cecil Rhodes imagined that scholars would "pursue a full-time career in government [...] the number of scholars in local, state and federal government has remained at a steady 7 percent" over the past century. Of the 200 or so scholars who have spent their careers in government, [b]"most of them have had solid, but undistinguished careers,"[b] while "perhaps forty or more can be said to have had a significant, national impact in their particular areas."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:...from a much larger base of students. Funny that you don’t think that matters.

Because it really doesn't, each year each school in District 9, including Wash. & Lee and UVA endorse one or two candidates. Those paper applications and endorsements go to the District 9 Commission (usually made up of former Rhodes Scholars). They cull through all the applications from District 9 (there are 16 in the U.S. ) and select only about 16 (there are 262 finalists in the U.S.). Those 16 then go and compete against each other for two slots in District 9. So every year Wash. & Lee is competing against UVA and every year UVA gets one or two of its endorsed students into the 32 and Wash. & Lee doesn't. Wash & Lee's applicant is either kicked out at the paper application level or at the District 9 Regionals. In that way, it's very fair. I was a regionalist for a very small Calif. school and went to Stanford where I competed mostly against UCLA, Berkeley, STanford (and Harvard, Princeton and Yale students who knew they wouldn't win in the Harvard District so filed in the western states in which they lived). It is entirely a geographical war between the local schools in the district with a few Ivy student interlopers.