<p>I thought that cumulative list had been updated for this year’s winners, but it looks like it hasn’t. Which means that this year’s winner is Villanova’s third (!), and there are no first-time colleges this year.</p>
<p>The overweighting of Rhodeses to a few institutions is almost comical. Counting this year, the top three are Harvard (347), Yale (233), Princeton (201), and they have supplied over a quarter of all of the U.S. Rhodes Scholars there have ever been. Stanford (95) and West Point (91) round out the top five, and with the next five, much more tightly bunched around 50 apiece, take the cumulative total for the top 10 (out of over 300) to over 36%. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, if all colleges that had produced a single Scholar over the years were treated as one college, it still wouldn’t crack the top 5 in terms of total Scholars produced (and would represent about 1/4th of Harvard’s total).</p>
<p>It’s like income distribution. The bottom 90% of colleges on the list combined produce less than the top 10%.</p>