Only in America

I perused this year's Rhodes Scholars' list, when the announcement was first made, and found no one with a homeschooling background.

Au contraire, as Myrna Blyth reports:

"Eugene (Shenderov) is from Ukraine and came to America with his parents when he was six. His father is a physicist and his mother a pharmacist. He was homeschooled during his elementary years because of a weakened immune system, an after-effect of Chernobyl.

Eugene, who has a 4.0 average at Brooklyn in their B.A.-M.D. program, is also a varsity tennis player, president of the college's chess team and an Emergency Medical Service driver. In high school he ran research projects at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center where his parents worked and he plans to be an oncologist."