<p>Quick Addendum, for those interested in a list of Chicago’s Rhodes Scholars, go here:</p>
<p>[Rhodes</a> Scholars | The University of Chicago](<a href=“http://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/rhodes.shtml]Rhodes”>http://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/rhodes.shtml)</p>
<p>I did a quick tabulation of the past decade of winners for U of C, and from what I could find, 9 of the 10 winners in the past decade or so were student marshals. Of course maybe some had “lower” GPAs, but the Marshals are the best of the best at Chicago - they’ve built up outstanding GPAs along with superb relationships with professors and created accomplished scholarly work. I’m willing to bet the vast majority of these marshals had at least a 3.8, especially since this decade has also seen the emergence of grade inflation at Chicago.</p>