<p>Harvard</a>, Stanford, University of Chicago Win Most U.S. Rhodes Scholarships - Bloomberg</p>
<p>Another good year for UChicago applicants.</p>
<p>Edit: Whoops, looks like gracello already posted a link to this.</p>
<p>The thing that impressed me most was that two kids in the same year from Sioux Falls, South Dakota got it. I wonder if they (a) were in the same class at some school in Sioux Falls, and (b) felt insanely competitive with one another.</p>
<p>three years ago, two kids from the same HS class in Massachusetts won. That was the first time it had ever happened. They were acquainted in HS, not great friends, but not at all competitive with each other. Interestingly, they became best of friends at Oxford and formed a chamber quartet.</p>
<p>I knew that (I wonder how?), except for the part about forming a chamber quartet. (Amazing kids, these Rhodes scholars – so accomplished that two of them can form a quartet! They’re different than you and me!) But somehow it seemed less stunning that there might be two classmates from a great high school in the Boston area than that there might be two classmates from anything in Sioux Falls, SD.</p>
<p>There are two from Roseville, MN in this year’s list. (Prerna @ UChicago, Priya @ WUStL). I bet they knew each other in HS as well.</p>
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<p>You never heard of playing the violin and cello at the same time? Violin and Viola? You don’t have two arms?</p>
<p>Regarding Sioux Falls vs Brookline, MA</p>
<p>population: 123,000 vs 57,000
Schools, 21,000 students (K-12) with three HS vs 6,000 with one.</p>
<p>So the odds of being from the same HS in SD are 1 in 3. </p>
<p>Why you’d seem surprised at a success from SD is beyond me. They do have smart folks there too. </p>
<p>Roseville? The two winners graduated HS in different years.</p>
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<p>Wow. That’s pretty elitist, even for you, JHS :-). What, there aren’t smart folks in SD? There are even upper middle class educated professionals there – go figure!</p>
<p>Yes, elitist, Pizzagirl. You got me. How astute!</p>
<p>Of course there are smart folks in South Dakota, and even upper middle class educated professionals there. But what concentration of them does it take to produce a nontrivial possibility of two Rhodes Scholars in the same cohort?</p>
<p>You need to look at per capita Rhodes Scholars- these are all large schools. Haverford wins out over all of them!</p>
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<p>Yes, we can draw a lot of conclusions from Haverford’s ONE winner. </p>
<p>Oh, by the way, sorry Williams didn’t win any. Maybe next year…</p>
<p>If you look at per capita Rhodes Scholars over the past 13 years, Haverford has less than a fifth of what Yale, Chicago, Princeton, and West Point have, and about a tenth of Harvard.</p>
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<p>You are wrong on all counts-no school has ever won a Rhodes Scholarship-students do and, which has been discussed on the other board, it is completely meaningless…</p>
<p>Give this a rest already…</p>
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<p>Please explain why it is “completely meaningless.” </p>
<p>For what it’s worth, I have nothing against LACs. I especially admire a few of them such as Harvey Mudd and Swarthmore. But if someone is going to spew propaganga, I have no problems calling him out for it.</p>
<p>workman- interestingly enough, over the years Williams has exceeded U. Chicago, MIT, etc. in absolute numbers of Rhodes Scholars (not just per capita), and on a per capita basis only trails HYP (and is pretty close). College Yahoo is right, however, in that it is the individual students who win the award and not their schools.</p>
<p>Good for Williams. Get back to me if your child ever wins the Rhodes. Until then, you should probably show some grace and not go to other schools’ CC forums to rain on their parades with useless trivia.</p>
<p>Just so you know, I have no connection to Chicago. I just call it as I see it.</p>
<p>The two students from Sioux Falls graduated from Lincoln HS in 2007:
[Sioux</a> Falls School District](<a href=“http://www.sf.k12.sd.us/SFSchoolDistrict/community.aspx?sfsd=WebPointID%3D214%26NewsStoryID%3D0%26__TimeStamp__%3D12%2F31%2F9999+11%3A59%3A59+PM]Sioux”>http://www.sf.k12.sd.us/SFSchoolDistrict/community.aspx?sfsd=WebPointID%3D214%26NewsStoryID%3D0%26__TimeStamp__%3D12%2F31%2F9999+11%3A59%3A59+PM)</p>
<p>There’s no mention of the Rhodes on the school website. The website has a link to its Hall of Fame. However, the criteria for former students to be inducted specify that it has been at least 5 years since they graduated. Perhaps, the committee will make an exception in the case of these two outstanding students?!</p>
<p>Rain on U Chicago’s parade??? Its a fantastic school and deserves all the accolades that it gets. I’m actually a big fan.</p>
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<p>Uh, what’s the point of asserting Haverford’s alleged superiority for no apparent reason than to promote your propaganda for LACs? </p>
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