LAC's by Rhodes scholarship winners

Aymyrat
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 17:08:41 +0000

I made a list of top liberal arts colleges by number of Rhodes Scholarship winners and compared it US. News ranking and then made adjusted rating by the number of students. Here you can have a look at it https://■■■■■■/ex5DcQ

Few notes before starting discussion. First of all, I made top 26 colleges first and then made adjusted rating by the number of students within the list, so there are actually might be colleges that would have better adjusted rating than some of these colleges, but didn’t make the list, because they were not in the list initially. Second, I believe that in order to win Rhodes scholar you need to be very bright student, as well as have a great undergraduate education. That’s why I added admission rate of colleges, but in reality it would be better to add 75 percentile SAT scores. And lastly, obviously this rating doesn’t include all factors. Colleges that accept students from more different states should fare better. Some colleges possibly have great merit scholarships for strong applicants, so even though their acceptance rate is high, the top of student body would be in fact quite strong. Also, different colleges have different focus, colleges like CMC maybe don’t care to send students to academia.

Honestly though, the winners here are Reed, Sewanee, Wabash and College of Idaho. The fact that College of Idaho, ranked 168 in the country, with acceptance rate of 85%, fared better than Pomona (ranked 7, acceptance rate only 9%) is incredible. Some respected colleges didn’t make the list: Colby, Colgate, Hamilton, Vassar, Richmond…