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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at the number of Rhodes Scholarship winners by institution.  UVA has 50.  The only institutions with more winners are Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, West Point & Yale.  That is some elite company.

You aren't going to produce Rhodes Scholars with mediocre academic programs. The scholars are an exceptional subset of an already impressive student body.

http://www.rhodesscholar.org/assets/uploads/Rhodes%20Scholarships_Number%20of%20Winners%20by%20Institution_10_15_14.pdf[/quote]

The Jefferson Scholar program is UVa gives full rides to a small, very elite group of students that would be accepted at any college in the country.  These students are very academically successful (e.g., receiving Rhodes/Fullbright scholarships) but I don't believe that their success reflects the quality of the faculty and the school as much as these kids are academic "ringers."[/quote]

So now it is somehow cheating to accept good students? Does anyone claim that Harvard is stacking the deck by only accepting good students? You're actually making an interesting point, but totally misapplying it to somehow suggest that we should question the results of any good school, UVA or otherwise. Jeezus people, you don't like Virginia, we get it.[/quote]

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