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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]...from a much larger base of students. Funny that you don’t think that matters. [/quote]

So the biggest schools should have more winners then, right?  But they don't.  [/quote]

No they don't, but the comparison accounting for size puts the disparities on a per capita basis in even sharper contrast.

Harvard has produced 369 Rhodes Scholars (they had 6 in the most recent cycle), but it actually has only 6,755 undergraduates.  Michigan, a very good school, has produced 27 Rhodes Scholars and has 29,821 undergraduates.  If Michigan produced Rhodes Scholars at the same rate as Harvard, it would have produced 1,629 Rhodes Scholars.  Given that there are only 32 Rhodes Scholars in the U.S. each year, that would be 51 years worth of Rhodes Scholars.  On a per capita basis, Harvard has produce about 60X as many as Michigan. [/quote]

Agreed.  Makes it even more surprising that schools like Michigan (27) and Berkeley (24) haven't had more.  Heck, UCLA has only had 11.   And really bad that a school like UMD has only had 2.  [/quote]

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