Cornell Owns the Goldwater Scholarships

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>For any student interested in the sciences, I would consider the following list pretty carefully. It may act as a good proxy for undergraduate support for research and advising in the physical and life sciences:</p>

<p>Cornell 4
MIT 4
CalTech 3
Michigan 3
Northwestern 3
Princeton 3
Rice 3
Berkeley 2
Chicago 2
Dartmouth 2
Emory 2
Harvard 2
Vanderbilt 2
Yale 2
Johns Hopkins 1
WUSTL 1
Brown 0
Penn 0
Duke 0</p>

<p><a href="http://www.act.org/goldwater/pdfdoc/2009scholars.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.act.org/goldwater/pdfdoc/2009scholars.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I would add that each university can only nominate four undergrads as well. Go Cornell! Four for four!</p>

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<p>It’s always interesting to see the big universities fight over the “big” scholarships (Rhodes, Goldwater, Marshall, Fulbright, etc.).</p>

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<p>Guys go for looks, but girls for status.</p>