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...just whatI want, and I have all the qualifications; and then you realize how many people you're contending with, and how hard it is to make it all the way through," Lauren Zachman, staff assistant for fellowships at the Office of Graduate Career and Programs (OGCP), says--and she seems to be right. The Rhodes gives you two years at Oxford and a great deal of prestige, but everyone involved in the application process agress that it isn't worth going through unless you have a pretty good shot at the finals...
Applicants arrive the night before the interview for a cocktail party that Kinsley describes as "absolutely nightmarish." Applicants and interviewers are expected to mingle. Rice says he finds the parties a good chance to get to know the applicant's strong points, but a little book at the OGCP with comments from people who've gone the route is full of descriptions in a slightly different tone. The applicants try hard to appear manly by clearly not trying to impress the committee members, and the committee members try to draw applicants out. One disappointed applicant called the result "the most...
...will emerge as Rhodes Scholar-elects. Regionals are three days after the state interviews, and candidates are flown to the regional center at the Trust's expense. These interviews are similar to those at the state level, but they may be even more intense. One successful candidate told the OGCP, "I don't think anyone but someone who has gone through the process realizes how strong the losers are." The 32 who win the scholarships get two paid years at Oxford-- the losers just get flown home in time for Christmas...
Students this year have come to the OGCP mostly for counseling for law, business and medical careers, and for miscellaneous jobs and leaves of absence. Many students, more than usual are looking for and finding jobs with the government. Ginn says that most students this year have been undecided among three or four career options, while in the late 60s graduating classes were totally undecided...
Betty Forsythe, a counselor at the OGCP, maintains that "those who want jobs will land jobs." It may take longer than it has before, but Harvard students will doubtless pull through...