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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The schools that are really impressive are the tiny schools that no one has ever heard of that occasionally produce a Rhodes, Watson, Marshall etc.

The big schools often have a whole team of adult professionals who prep the kids and it is almost a team effort. My kid won a prestigious fellowship and four different individuals read his application and helped him prep for the interview etc. And at the military academies they often identify candidates in sophomore year and provide opportunities to improve the application in summers etc. Theynprovide targeted research opportunities etc.

I have also sat on prize committees and you can tell whose application has been massaged. Kids have a better sense of what they want to study, are better prepared to undertake that study, are applying to the right program etc.

There is a reason the university folks say “WE got six prestigious fellowships last year.”

I thought it was interesting that so many of the Rhodes were Indian-Americans. Also interesting that they have diverse interests. No real pattern like “everybody just wants to study AI”.[/quote]

So many fallacious points in this post. This is what reasoning from anecdote produces. You can make assumptions all you want, but when you are on the other side of the table if you are honest you know very little about the massaging or nature of prep for 90% of candidates. Assume all you want.

Also, trying to talk about W&L and Davidson as if they are small and no one has heard of them instead of the fact that they are rather prestigious, selective, and small liberal arts colleges is laughable. Is it really more impressive? What if you also knew how much more effort goes into this from W&L than UVA? I [b]heard the guy who runs the UVA office doesn’t even care about the Rhodes.
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Why can’t people just say, ‘hey, cool.’ [/quote]

UVA's Director of the Office of Citizen Scholar Development, Andrus Ashoo, cares deeply about the Rhodes.  My son competed for it.  https://citizenscholars.virginia.edu/.  And the Marshall, Fulbright and all of the others.  You "hear" something that sounds off and then repeat it here?  not cool.[/quote]

Of course UVA deeply cares about getting Rhodes Scholarships. [/quote]

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