<p>0 Rhodes Scholars from Columbia this year. 6 from Harvard, 4 yale, and a bunch of others. How come Columbia didn't get any Rhodes Scholars? Is it THAT much noticably "worse" than Harvard or Yale?... As someone who's infatuated with Columbia, I'd have to admit this is kinda a blow to my enthusiasm... =/</p>
<p>(Anyone have stats on how many Columbians were EVER RHodes Scholars? Wikipedia lists.... ZERO (0) Rhodes Scholars in the history of Columbia University)... huh?</p>
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6 from Harvard, 4 yale, and a bunch of others. How come Columbia didn't get any Rhodes Scholars? Is it THAT much noticably "worse" than Harvard or Yale?
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<p>Yeah, totally. Yale students run circles around Columbia students.</p>
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As someone who's infatuated with Columbia, I'd have to admit this is kinda a blow to my enthusiasm... =/
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<p>Dude, become infatuated with a sports team or a TV show or a female celebrity, not a silly school.</p>
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<p>Don't know and don't really care, but I do know that three people won during my tenure at Columbia.</p>
<p>I hope that was sarcastic about the Yale students?</p>
<p>I know someone who was a finalist this year. He said they asked a lot of really weird questions and acted all awkward the whole time, that it was clear he didn't fit in. So to make him feel better, all his friends took him on a pub crawl tonight, starting at about 4pm. Pros and cons, guys.</p>
<p>Please don't take stock in the number of students from a particular school "winning" Rhodes scholarships. There is absolutely no correlation between the number of people being selected as a RS and a school's academic reputation/standing. These days, probably half the number of students winning are from schools lacking great academic reputations--which I think is a good thing. </p>
<p>I don't know how many students from these schools apply, but I would suspect that there are tons of applicants from the schools with great numbers. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a small number of Columbians applying relative to the other top schools.</p>
<p>All in all, the number of people winning a Rhodes is irrelevant to the institution--eventhough schools love to mention it.</p>
<p>Dude, become infatuated with a sports team or a TV show or a female celebrity, not a silly school.</p>
<p>lol, well said!</p>
<p>There are a couple of caveats when looking at the raw totals:</p>
<p>1)The Service Academies since they have student bodies spread in the configuration of the US Congress have a unique advantage in the Rhodes system which awards scholarships to regions which are geographically based but not adjusted for population. </p>
<p>2)The Catholic Colleges were just not part of the Rhodes System through about 1970 (Catholic colleges were not allowed to have Phi Beta Kappa chapters as late as the mid 1960s too). Whether this is attriutable to a failure of the Rhodes trust to outreach to the Catholic Schools (or vice versa), you cannot look upon the 1902-present total and do an apples to apples comparison with respect to any Catholic college.</p>
<p>There are a couple of caveats when looking at the raw totals:</p>
<p>1)The Service Academies since they have student bodies spread in the configuration of the US Congress have a unique advantage in the Rhodes system which awards scholarships to regions which are geographically based but not adjusted for population. </p>
<p>2)The Catholic Colleges were just not part of the Rhodes System through about 1970 (Catholic colleges were not allowed to have Phi Beta Kappa chapters as late as the mid 1960s too). Whether this is attributable to a failure of the Rhodes trust to outreach to the Catholic Schools (or vice versa), you cannot look upon the 1902-present total and do an apples to apples comparison with respect to any Catholic college.</p>
<p>Consider further that schools have to sponsor their individual applicants, and a lot of schools have ridiculous standards that a student has to meet in order to qualify for that sponsorship. Nevertheless, if you were to correct this year's list by the number of applicants, Harvard's dominance gets tremendously shattered. A lot of the schools with just 1-2 also sent in very few applications, so that does not necessarily reflect how well they did when it came to getting a rhodes scholarship to the students that wanted one.</p>