Word: rice
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...applicants for interviews, perhaps the most important part of the process--it is the emphasis on personal contact that makes the Rhodes application unique. Only two of the fifteen will go on to the regional interviews-- each state belongs in a region that will select four finalists, a way, Rice says, of avoiding bias toward any particular area...
...Rice says that applications have not risen alarmingly this fall, but that he imagines they'll all arrive just before the October 31 deadline...
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...
...scholars, although, Price says, the chairman never is. Some committees have included women in the past, and Price says he expects many of them will approach more this year in preparation for women applicants. The interviews--which are all done in the same day--are long and very thorough. Rice says he finds that day "the most stimulating one of the year," because it offers him a chance to learn not only about the concerns of the graduating classes but also about the subjects in which the applicants are interested. That afternoon, the candidates sit outside the interviewing room...
...provided they would select from each state the candidate most likely to become President of the United States, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or ambassador to Great Britain, then Oxford and the Rhodes Trustees would probably be satisfied." There are some Rhodes scholars who never use their gifts, Rice says, but he adds that "if there's any quality that's common to Rhodes who haven't done much, it's that they see all the sides of a problem, and are paralyzed...