Desmond Mun-Kit Koh – who stands poised to become USC’s third Rhodes Scholar in six years – waded into competitive swimming as a 7-year-old in Singapore.
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Rhodes Scholars Chosen From 3 California Schools
Three young women from Pomona College, Stanford and USC are among 32 Americans chosen as Rhodes Scholars, entitling them to two years of study at Oxford University in England.