Five students were chosen out of 32 total American Rhodes Scholars, representing the most winners of any American university for the sixth year in a row.
Stanford and the United States Military Academy had four U.S. winners each this year.
The five U.S. winners bring Harvard’s total number of American Rhodes Scholars to 399 since the first Americans received the award in 1904.
The newly-minted recipients join Laura S. Wegner ’25, a German recipient of the Rhodes, and Shahmir Aziz ’25, a Pakistani recipient, as this year’s Rhodes recipients from Harvard.
Currier House led the College in Rhodes Scholars this year, with three of the eight recipients calling the Quad House their home.
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The University of Oxford has chosen six members of Harvard’s Class of 2025 as American and Canadian Rhodes Scholars to pursue postgraduate studies.
This is the sixth consecutive year that an American university has produced the most Rhodes Scholars, with five students selected from a total of 32. The US Military Academy and Stanford both had four U.S. S. winners for each of the years. 243 colleges and universities enrolled 865 students, from whom the 32 were selected, according to the American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust.
Harvard University. S. . The winners are Sofia L. and Lena Ashooh ’25. Aneesh C. Corona ’24-’25. Ayush Noori ’25, Tommy Barone ’25, and Muppidi ’25. Matt F. The Canadian Rhodes Scholarship went to Anzarouth ’25.
The trio of U. S. . Since the first American Rhodes Scholars were granted the honor in 1904, Harvard has now awarded 399 American Rhodes Scholars in total. Yale comes in second with 267 winners during that same time frame.
These new honorees join this year’s Harvard Rhodes recipients Laura S. Wegner ’25, a German, and Shahmir Aziz ’25, a Pakistani. Award announcements from the remaining international constituencies will be made by the Rhodes Trust in the upcoming weeks.
This year’s College in Rhodes Scholars was led by Currier House, as three out of the eight recipients resided in the Quad House. Only one Rhodes Scholar had been produced by Currier since 2015.
His two years at Oxford will be spent “focusing on my studies” and “doing some introspection before I get back into another fast moving world,” according to Barone, a Crimson Editorial Chair and Social Studies concentrator at Currier House. “.”.
“I have a long-standing goal of finishing my extensive reading list,” he continued.
The news of his selection was “surreal,” according to Muppidi, a Lowell House joint concentrator in computer science and neuroscience. “”.
Muppidi declared, “It was without a doubt one of the greatest and most grateful academic honors I’ve ever received.”.
“I would have laughed in your face if you had told me in August or July that I would have been a Rhodes Scholar because I applied on a whim because a friend told me to,” he continued. “I never really imagined that someone like me, whose primary focus is very technical, would be eligible for the Rhodes Scholarship. “”.
The recipients intend to attend Oxford in the fall to study a wide range of subjects.
As the third consecutive year that a Harvard student with a self-designed major and a special concentration has won the Rhodes, Ashooh wrote that she intends to pursue a B. To “work on specifically the question: ‘What does it mean to respect an animal as an individual?'” asked Phil in philosophy.
Ashooh wrote, “I have pursued Animal Studies since the beginning of my time at Harvard because I have believed that solutions to social injustice could only come when animal ethics are taken seriously. I believe that studying Animal Studies is a study of social injustice.”.
While attending Oxford, Corona stated that she intends to finish courses in Enterprise, the Environment, and Economics for Development and Sustainability.
Corona stated, “I want to see how we can use public transit to create more equitable and sustainably built environments,” but she did not specify her plans for when she completes her postgraduate studies.
In the future, she added, “I hope I wouldn’t have such a clear vision.”. I prefer to believe that I haven’t yet imagined what I’ll do. “.”.
