<p>Perhaps a final bit: Globalist, you posted a lot of links about special programs at UVA and how a portion of the UVA population is able to engage in these.</p>
<p>They sounded similar to what Yale would provide, but in different fields and capacities. Perhaps, more poignantly, however, it seems like it's stuff that a majority of Yalies do and are involved with. </p>
<p>It's a different atmosphere when it's a small group of people rather than a university like that.</p>
<p>I'm not trying to say that UVA is a bad school. Far from it, I looked at it and considered applying. But Yale is one of mankind's greatest institutions of learning. One cannot just overlook that when one speaks of Yale, its of its amazing nature.</p>
<p>I don't care about discrediting Yale or UVA, considering I don't have connections to either. I probably wouldn't have mentioned it if it didn't completely change the meaning of the sentence, negating your point.</p>
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My stay here isn't just me learning from Yale: I'm suppose to help Yale become an even more important leader in the world. I've heard from many people around the country. Not many can say that about their college. That's perhaps the difference between UVA (even in the Jefferson Scholars program) and Yale.
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I meant to address this in my last post but forgot to do so. The universities with the most Rhodes Scholars ("excellence in qualities of mind and in qualities of person which, in combination, offer the promise of effective service to the world in the decades ahead") are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, USMA, Stanford, Brown, and UVA.</p>
<p>... not when you look on a per-capita basis (HYP and USMA are still way ahead of anyone else in terms of producing Rhodes winners, but the rest of the list changes dramatically).</p>
<p>The highest per capita is Sewanee: the University of the South. They have produced 25 Rhodes winners with an average freshman class size of 400 each year.</p>