How useful is being a Rhodes finalist to PhD admission

[Neurotic_Jay]

I'm applying to statistics PhD programs (some offered by business schools, some by art&sci schools).I am a Rhodes Scholarship finalist (obviously I didn't get it otherwise I won't be applying), and I'm wondering if this helps my application and if so, by how much?

[TakeruK]

I don't think the fact that you were a finalist directly helps you.

However, if you were a finalist, then it means that your experience and achievements are significant enough to get you to this round. There's much overlap between what the schools you're applying to and the Rhodes committee look for, so doing well in one is probably at least weakly correlated to doing well in another.