Rhodes Scholarship Trust Announces 2009 Recipients

[gbesq]

<p>Here they are: </p>

<p><a href="http://www.rhodesscholar.org/assets/PDF/2008/final_winners_list_11_22_08.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.rhodesscholar.org/assets/PDF/2008/final_winners_list_11_22_08.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Forgive me if I shamelessly promote my daughter's school, Kansas State University, which has its eighth Rhodes recipient since 1986, second only to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill among public universities.</p>

[the_prestige]

<p>What struck me about this list was that out of 32 recipients this year, 9 Ivy League graduates (Brown, Columbia, Princeton (3), Penn, Harvard (2), Yale) -- that is an amazing 30% representation vs. all US university graduates to end up with a Rhodes Scholarship in 2008.</p>

<p>That's pretty impressive.</p>