Five Harvard Students Selected as Rhodes Scholars From US

Five members of Harvard’s Class of 2025 were selected as American Rhodes Scholars to pursue postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford, the American secretary of the Rhodes Trust announced early Sunday morning.

The five Harvard students, who were chosen out of 32 total American Rhodes Scholars, represents 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.

Harvard’s U.S. winners are Lena Ashooh ’25, Sofia L. Corona ’24, Aneesh C. Muppidi ’25, Ayush Noori ’25, and Tommy Barone ’25, a Crimson Editorial Chair.

They 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.

Within the U.S., 865 students were endorsed by 243 colleges and universities for this year’s scholarship, according to the press release.

Barone, a Social Studies concentrator in Currier House, said he plans to use his two years at Oxford for “focusing on my studies” and “doing some introspection before I get back into another fast moving world.”

“I have a really long reading list I’ve been wanting to clear for a long time,” he added.

Muppidi, a joint Computer Science and Neuroscience concentrator in Lowell House, said hearing the news of his selection was “surreal.”

“It was undoubtedly one of the greatest and most grateful academic honors I’ve ever received,” Muppidi said.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

—Staff writer Cam N. Srivastava can be reached at cam.srivastava@thecrimson.com. Follow him on X @camsrivastava.