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At Wisconsin, where the Scholars made an especially impressive academic record, nearly two thirds of the graduating Scholars in each group received honors, as against about one-third of the Comparisons and a fifth of the class as a whole. Twenty-six per cent of the 1951 Scholars and 30 per cent of the 1952 Scholars who graduated were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, as against 10 per cent of the 1951 Comparisons and 18 per cent of the 1952 Comparisons.

At Utah, the picture was substantially the same. Here, too, nearly two thirds of the graduating Scholars in each group received honors, as against 50 per cent of the 1951 Comparisons and 41 per cent of the 1952 Comparisons. Nine per cent of the 1951 Scholars and 22 per cent of the 1952 Scholars who graduated were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, as against 1.3 per cent and 5 per cent of their classmates.

At Chicago, nearly one third of each group of graduating Scholars received honors, a proportion substantially greater than that of the Comparison students. Of 12 student aides selected by the dean in 1955 to assist with official functions of the University (appointments made on the combined basis of scholarship and citizenship) fully half were 1951 Scholars. Two of the 1952 Scholars won National Science Foundation Fellowships, two won Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, and one won a Rhodes Scholarship.

One of the 1951 Scholars at Oberlin also won a Rhodes Scholarship.

Of the 11 students who in 1955 received the highest honors Columbia College bestows, three were members of the 1951 Scholar group. Sixteen of the 1952 Scholars graduated with honors and ten were elected to Phi Beta Kappa. By contrast, eight of the Comparisons received honors and seven were elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Among the 1951 Scholars at Goucher, 14 out of the 19 appeared on the Dean's list for at least one year, and 13 were so cited in two or more years. Four received special honors at graduation and five were elected to Phi Beta Kappa. The 1951 Comparison group had only three Dean's scholars and only one of these was cited in