<p>catchtheball,</p>
<p>You youngsters (:)) need to figure out how to use the internet, not rely on someone else like Sam Lee.</p>
<p>You can find the Goldwater data for the past year here: <a href=“http://www.act.org/goldwater/pdfdoc/2009scholars.pdf[/url]”>http://www.act.org/goldwater/pdfdoc/2009scholars.pdf</a> I’ll leave it to you to do the counting, but give you a hint: use the search function…</p>
<p>You can find historic data here: [Four</a> K-State students win 2006 Goldwater Scholarships](<a href=“http://www.mediarelations.k-state.edu/WEB/News/NewsReleases/Goldwater32206.html]Four”>http://www.mediarelations.k-state.edu/WEB/News/NewsReleases/Goldwater32206.html) but to make it easier for you internet challenged types (I guess age has its advantages - we “old” guys know how to use the internet…) I’ll post the relevant numbers:</p>
<p>Goldwater Scholars
Top 20 of the 2,000 four-year colleges in America:
March 2006</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton University 64</li>
<li>Harvard University 60</li>
<li>Duke University 58</li>
<li>K-STATE* 57</li>
<li>University of Chicago 53</li>
<li>Penn State University* 52</li>
<li>University of Illinois-Urbana* 51</li>
<li>California Institute of Technology 51</li>
<li>Stanford 49</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University 46</li>
<li>University of Virginia* 45</li>
<li>Washington University (St. Louis) 45</li>
<li>Montana State University* 45</li>
<li>Cornell University 43</li>
<li>University of Michigan* 43</li>
<li>Brown 43</li>
<li>Northwestern University 41</li>
<li>University of Tulsa 41</li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology 41</li>
<li>University of Kansas* 41
Yale 41</li>
</ol>
<p>Northwestern did barely make the list. Not bad.</p>
<p>But I can only repeat that one year (one data point) does not make a trend.</p>