<p>Since when is the Rhodes Scholarship the only ranking criterion anyway?</p>
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<blockquote> <p>And the service academies typically represent service to one's country, and as such, their students are generally viewed as upstanding citizens.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>And the service academies also have offices whose fulltime job it is to prep and package cadets to win Rhodes and other big awards. They put even more effort into it than HYP do.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if there is an office in each academy to work solely to gain prestigious awards (to my knowledge there is not, but I attended a number of years ago - you may know better). However here are the criteria for selection:</p>
<p>Mr. Rhodes Will contains four criteria by which prospective Rhodes Scholars are to be selected:
literary and scholastic attainments; </p>
<p>energy to use ones talents to the full, as exemplified by fondness for and success in sports; </p>
<p>truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship; </p>
<p>moral force of character and instincts to lead, and to take an interest in ones fellow beings. </p>
<p>Looks like the academies would fit well with the criteria.</p>