Rhodes Scholars’ Alma Maters

With acceptance letters en route to students, it’s time for a refresher course on “Acceptance to an Elite School Does Not Guarantee Anything– Nor Does Non-Acceptance.” Here is a list of the schools that the 2014 Rhodes Scholars attended:

• Washington University (St Louis)

• University of Virginia

• Yale

• University of Wisconsin

• Mississippi State University

• Harvard

• United States Military Academy

• University of Chicago

• Smith

• University of Tennessee

• Princeton

• Georgia Institute of Technology

• Williams

• MIT

• Wake Forest

• Dartmouth

• UC Berkeley

• Stanford

• Villanova

• NYU (Abu Dhabi campus)

• Carnegie Mellon

So yes, the usual suspects– Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc.– are well-represented on this list, but clearly by no means mandatory for admission to this most exclusive of clubs.