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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard has produced more Rhodes Scholars than any other university, with a total of about 385 or so.[/quote]

Correct.  The Rhodes scholarship is based on research/qualifications/awards/etc achieved at the collegiate level.  Read a few announcements--they don't mention high schools or anything an applicant did at the high school level. 
The people who win them are extraordinary outliers who would be successful at ANY school. 
Recent DC winners included: 
2023 Yale St Albans. 
2022 Harvard Walls
2021 Stanford Jackson Reed
2016 Yale GDS
2015 Stanford Richard Montgomery
2013 Stanford Thomas Jefferson

In the years I didn't mention the winner were from random Maryland high schools or from the Naval Academy or Georgetown (you can win a region either by gong to college there or being from there).

The thing all these kids had in common is that they were EXTRAORDINARY OUTLIERS in their respective colleges.  Most were crazy outliers in high school as well.  The Jackson Reed guy was tutoring Georgetown and GW college students in math and computer science [i]while he was still in high school.[/i]  He was taking graduate level classes in math at Stanford and GW WHILE IN HIGH SCHOOL.  Basically Jackson Reed had next to nothing to do with his success--except they flexed and allowed him to take graduate level classes elsewhere while being enrolled in their school.  [/quote]

Reading is indeed fundamental.  The Walls/Harvard/Rhodes Scholar credits Walls.  Those are her words, NOT mine.

Why are you trying to argue this point?!?  She is entitled to give credit to Walls if she wants to give the school credit. Do not substitute your opinion for hers.  [/quote]

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