(from 2010 winners bios from the Rhodes Trust)

Monica L. Marks, Rush, graduated from the University of Louisville with a triple major and high honors in philosophy, political science, and women’s and gender studies. She is now on a Fulbright Scholarship in Turkey. where she is studying how Turkey secularized its formerly sharia-based civil code. She has also studied at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, and is proficient in Turkish, Arabic and Swahili. At Oxford, she plans to do a doctorate in modern middle eastern studies.

(from the university site)
https://louisville.edu/uofltoday/campus-news/marks-named-rhodes-scholar

At UofL, Marks blazed new trails. While pursuing her undergraduate degree, she traveled the world, mastered new languages, founded and coached the university’s Intercollegiate Quiz Bowl Team and won highly-coveted awards and scholarships, including a Fulbright Award, a Critical Language Scholarship from the State Department and the Mary Churchill Humphrey Scholarship from the UofL College of Arts and Sciences. She graduated with a combined major in political science, women’s and gender studies and philosophy.

Just reading this I know that Monica’s bio is truly representative of the Law of Complementary Accomplishments. But (this is my own analysis) I noticed that her three majors seemed really interconnected and that she really had to be passionate about what she was studying and aiming for to receive high honors for them. If this is true and is possible, then would that mean that there can be circumstances when an overloaded courseload (in this case, a triple major) can be justified?

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So you are required to spread your achievements out rather than concentrating on multiple academic awards.

Awesome! Where were you when I was in college? Man, I’m 36 now and I could’ve accomplished SOOOOOOO much more.

You make me want to do it all over again. Maybe I should.

Please keep up the good, nay, great work!

I intend to apply for a Rhodes Scholarship. What are my chances? A double major of Psychology and Philosophy, and a double minor in Cognitive Science and Linguistics. A Certificate in Behavioral Pharmacology, and an editor of the Undergraduate Philosophy Journal. Honors in Psychology and Philosophy thanks to an interdisciplinary honors thesis. Focused on both psychopharmacological and philosophy of mind research.

It would depend on the research. And where you go to school. Your college should have a scholarship committee that’s in charge of finding candidates for these major awards. It’s often run out of one of the dean’s offices. Find this and setup a meeting to see what’s going on. At many Ivy League schools, Rhodes applicants are hand-picked. At Dartmouth, one of the deans told me that the process they walk the applicant through takes around 100 hours.

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