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

Because it really doesn't, each year each school in District 9, including Wash. & Lee and UVA endorse one or two candidates.  Those paper applications and endorsements go to the District 9 Commission (usually made up of former Rhodes Scholars).  They cull through all the applications from District 9 (there are 16 in the U.S. ) and select only about 16 (there are 262 finalists in the U.S.).  Those 16 then go and compete against each other for two slots in District 9.  So every year Wash. & Lee is competing against UVA and every year UVA gets one or two of its endorsed students into the 32 and Wash. & Lee doesn't.  Wash & Lee's applicant is either kicked out at the paper application level or at the District 9 Regionals. In that way, it's very fair.  I was a regionalist for a very small Calif. school and went to Stanford where I competed mostly against  UCLA, Berkeley, STanford (and Harvard, Princeton and Yale students who knew they wouldn't win in the Harvard District so filed in the western states in which they lived).  It is entirely a geographical war between the local schools in the district with a few Ivy student interlopers.[/quote]

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