Rhodes Scholarship

University of Pennsylvania graduate student Mackenzie Fierceton won the Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. But she lost the scholarship after it came out that she lied on her application about being poor, abused and growing up in foster care.

The largest number of black students received the prestigious Rhodes scholarships in the class of 2018 announcement.

Dr. Myron Rolle—who put off an NFL career because he was a Rhodes Scholar—plans to become a physician with a specialty in neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in June.

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