rhodes scholarship...?

Question

i know one must be under 24 and have a bachelor's degree by the time they enter oxford, but i thought i read somewhere that you can't have a master's or anything above a bachelor's to apply. but i've read about rhodes scholars who will pursue doctorates, meaning they must be in their first or second year of grad school and will advance to oxford after they receive their master's. so can anyone help me out with this? can you have a degree above a bachelor's?

thanks

I know all of that, but I also know that you don't have to go to an elite university. Sure, the majority of Rhodes scholars come from heavy hitters, but if you would take a look at current and past winners lists, there are plenty of public schools as well, and I'm not just talking schools like Berkeley. A big name might look good and have more experience, but if you are truly a standout to the point of being nominated for a Rhodes, than you are truly a standout regardless of where you receive your education.

Answer 1

You have to be nominated by your university to be a Rhodes Scholar, so the first step is to go to a university that has a very skilled and experienced nominating committee... that would be Harvard or Duke or UChicago or one of the other very elite schools. If you look at the list of Rhodes Scholars the next time they are appointed you will see that nearly all of them come from one of these elite schools. Then once you are there, all you have to do is convince the school that you are one of the two or three best students in that school.

Nothing to it!

And, sorry, I can't agree that a significant number of Rhodes scholars are from non-elite schools. The total graduating classes from the eight Ivies plus the ten most elite non-Ivies is no more than 24,000 kids out of more than 1 million annual graduates, yet they get almost all the Rhodes. These scholarships are awarded regionally, but often even the regions with no elite schools elect scholars who are away at elite schools in other geographic locations. There was a scholar elected from Montana State U. recently, but an elected scholar from California was back east at school and surely beat out some wonderful candidates from the west coast. The competition for the Rhodes is extremely fierce and no candidate is likely to succeed unless they are backed up by a well orchestrated push from their home college. In elite schools this push starts when the kids are freshmen - deliberately assembling the resume that the committee knows will have the best chance of success. There are 1000 amazing candidates each year, but there are only 30 who will be elected, and those are primed candidates.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

how many rhodes scholars did west virginia university have?