While the full ride programs at both Duke and Emory are fantastic opportunities, I have to disagree with the assertion in post #12 about the chances for AB Duke Scholars getting a Rhodes Scholarship being higher than for students at Stanford or Harvard.
I don’t believe that’s consistent with the data on Rhodes winners, which I’ll show below . . . with the caveat that I don’t think chances of getting a Rhodes are even worth thinking about when picking a college. There are 32 US winners a year and chances of winning are so low (even at the very top colleges) that I don’t think it’s worth a second thought when picking a college.
Here are the top schools for numbers of Rhodes winners from 2001 to 2014, in rank order. These are the only schools in double digits.
Harvard 52
Yale 34
Stanford 28
Princeton 22
West Point 19
Chicago 15
Annapolis 14
Duke 12
MIT 12
Brown 11