University of Minnesota Moment: Rhodes Scholar

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[Announcer]: I'm Rick Moore with the University of Minnesota Moment. Diana Fu, an honors student in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, was recently named a 2006 Rhodes Scholar. She explains how she got the news and what it takes to be chosen a Rhodes Scholar.

[Fu]: The good news I got when I was sitting in the hotel five-six hours after my interview, the day of my interview, so they came out with the results pretty quickly. It's a very long and tedious process. What happens is first you are chosen in a selection process from your school. Once you're nominated from your university, you prepare a dossier that includes a personal statement, your resume, and six recommendation letters; submit it to the committee, and they select from those pool of candidates a number to interview, and so there's a number of interview processes involved.

[Moore]: Fu says the U prepared her well.

[Fu]: Ever since I walked into the University I felt like I've been a part of smaller communities, two of them in particular: the CLA Honors Community, and the MacArthur Community. I think the quality of academics at the University is very very high-caliber. It's top-notch. I owe a big debt to a lot of people here.

[Moore]: What does the future hold for the U's Rhodes Scholar?

[Fu]: Well, I'm going to be heading to Oxford, and after that I hope to be applying to Ph.D. programs probably in the States.

[Moore]: Fu is the third University of Minnesota-Twin Cities student to win a Rhodes Scholarship since 2000. With the University of Minnesota Moment, I'm Rick Moore.