<p>It was 17 for Smith, plus the 5 French Govt’ Fellows (which are Fulbrights funded by the French gov’t rather the U.S.)</p>
<p>The significance of Fulbrights is two-fold: unlike Rhodes, Marshalls, etc., the award doesn’t depend on the brilliance of the students (the winners of the latter would likely have been good candidates for these awards wherever they went), but rather on value-added while they were in college - specifically in languages and area studies majors. Secondly, they depend extraordinarily heavily upon preparation (Smith also ranks first or second in research as opposed to teaching Fulbrights), and the quality of advising.</p>
<p>One easy way to see this is to rank the schools not per capita (which also has some special problems that I won’t go into here), but by average entering SAT scores. When you do that, you can more clearly see the value-added proposition.</p>