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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rhodes is all about the 'scholar athlete' so assuming you were pushing someone in that direction, you'd need to be pushing them on both fronts. But the thing that always strikes me about the students written up at the Ivies who get the awards is how interesting they are -- fascinated by some obscure subject and then motivated to travel around and get jobs and internships, reading articles and writing articles about that subject. I'm not sure that anyone's parents can make them interesting like that, or interested like that. I believe that most of them are probably highly motivated of their own accord. My son had a friend who won a Rhodes and she had a very unique and compelling interest that seemed to have just emerged organically in her life, for what it's worth.[/quote] Interesting. None of the Rhodes scholars I know are (or were) athletes. [/quote]
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