With acceptance letters en route to students, it’s time for a refresher course on “Acceptance to an Elite School Does Not Guarantee Anything– Nor Does Non-Acceptance.” Here is a list of the schools that the 2014 Rhodes Scholars attended:

• Washington University (St Louis)
• University of Virginia
• Yale
• University of Wisconsin
• Mississippi State University
• Harvard
• United States Military Academy
• University of Chicago
• Smith
• University of Tennessee
• Princeton
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Williams
• MIT
• Wake Forest
• Dartmouth
• UC Berkeley
• Stanford
• Villanova
• NYU (Abu Dhabi campus)
• Carnegie Mellon

So yes, the usual suspects– Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc.– are well-represented on this list, but clearly by no means mandatory for admission to this most exclusive of clubs.