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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1	Harvard   369
2	Yale   252
3	Princeton   215
4	Stanford   102
5	US Military Academy   94
6	Dartmouth   63
7	Brown   57
8	UVA   54
9	MIT   52
10	U Chicago   51
11	US Naval Academy   48
12	Duke   47
13	UNC   44
14	US Air Force Academy   41
15	U Washington   37

https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/media/44935/2020-rs_number-of-winners-by-institution.pdf

Other "regionals" of note:

Georgetown   25
Johns Hopkins   21
Washington & Lee   17
VMI   9
Howard  3
U Maryland   2
Virginia Tech   2
UMBC   1
GWU   1

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Most surprising absences?

UPenn
Columbia
Michigan 
UC Berkeley
Cornell

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Cornell - 31
Michigan - 27
Columbia - 27
Berkeley - 24
Penn - 23
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[b]"Regional" Washington & Lee has produced 17 Rhodes Scholars to "National" UVA's 55.  But wait!  UVA has 9.3X as many undergraduate students.  On a per capita basis, W&L has produced about 3X as many Rhodes Scholars as UVA.  The miracles of math. . .[/quote][/b]

You can't use stats. in that fashion in this instance.  First, women weren't even included until 1977 (Rhodes program started in 1903, but had a sporadic start).  I know because I competed that year.  Second both UVA and Washington & Lee are in District 9 for the Regional competition which means their students compete directly against one another.  The stats and recent reports indicate that UVA is producing a Rhodes Scholar every year now.  Washington & Lee didn't produce its first until 1954 and recently snagged one in 2016 and 2020.  It's performance is erratic which is not uncommon for the smaller SLACs.[/quote]

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