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...application process--which ended on Sunday--drew more applications than the group's founders expected, though they would not cite a specific figure...
...ostensible justification for severely restricting who Harvard sends on presumably rests on the University's desire to ensure high standards among endorsees--though OCS has never explicitly addressed why it turns away so many seemingly qualified applicants, other than to say that the Rhodes process is inherently demanding and that only the most qualified prevail. It seems reasonable to allow institutions the chance to veto applicants with substantial disciplinary records or whose academic and extracurricular credentials are so lacking that their application would prove an embarrassment for all involved. Outside of this criterion, it seems unreasonable for Harvard to exclude...
...understand why Yale, Stanford and West Point surpassed Harvard in the American Rhodes competition, look no further than the process by which Harvard selects its candidates for the award. While well-meaning, Harvard's Rhodes endorsement competition, carried out by the college and administered by the Office of Career Services (OCS), consistently denies qualified candidates university endorsement, as Gerson himself and the Warden of Rhodes House noted on a recent visit. Even though college officials moved to address Gerson's concerns by raising the number of endorsements by 21 percent this year, so many clearly qualified candidates remained...
Every fall, over 80 Harvard students apply for University endorsement, a necessary prerequisite for applying to the Rhodes scholarship itself--though many schools bypass this process and instead endorse all their applicants outright. Harvard's complex, two-tiered endorsement committee consistently rejects more than half who apply. Before getting started, these potential Rhodes Scholars are stopped in their tracks, deemed unworthy by the committee of even having a shot at the mystical award...
...candidates' extra-curricular and academic accomplishments, thereby discounting any attribute not captured in a letter grade or activity listing, but it also has the effect of biasing the committee towards candidates with strong transcripts at the expense of those whose contributions have come in other places. The OCS process also fails to include an interview, the most important and infamous feature of the Rhodes selection process...