Jefferson Scholar
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Anonymous
the first step is to make sure your high school is a nominating school for the Jefferson. If not, your high school needs to file paperwork. Then your school gets one nomination. Then the application goes to regionals. Then a regional Q&A if your child gets that far. About 120 applicants finally make it to UVA for a weekend of competing where the list is narrowed to 30 |
Anonymous
They no longer do the in-person weekend for finalists. It's all on-line. |
Anonymous
Ah, thank you. My DC competed in a year when they still had the finalists to campus for a weekend. |
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Son made it through three stages, HS nomination, 1st interview and regional interview but not final stage.
In addition to the usual 4.0 UW, hardest course rigor, NMF, playing an instrument since 2nd grade he also had several national and international academic awards. He was admitted to UVA OOS as Echols Scholar but didn't attend. |
Anonymous
DS did the same, but didn't make the final cut (and he really wanted it to help take the financial burden off of us!). First in class, most rigorous, Eagle Scout, 36 ACT, college courses taken during summers, Yale Young Global Scholar, etc.). |
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Question - if you win an external scholarship in addition to Jefferson scholarship, how does that work?
Thanks |
Anonymous
My DS just got school nomination (large FCPS HS). Trying to understand the process- So next round is they review within the region? If he makes that cut, regional interview? Then to national interview or another round of regional? |
Anonymous
| My student is a Morehead-Cain OOS nominee for UNC and it’s a similar process. Many kids make it to the semi-final round only to not get into Chapel Hill. It’s my understanding that if you are finalist, they do notify admissions. Like Jefferson @ UVA, Morehead-Cain is a separate process from UNC. The application was a total bear and due Oct 1, two weeks before the EA UNC deadline. |
Anonymous
Jefferson Scholars is a program of the UVa Alumni Association, which is independent of UVa. UVa Admissions process is internal to the university, while Jefferson Scholars process is internal to the UVA Alumni Association. No communication between those processes. |
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My student was nominated last year and ultimately was selected as a Jefferson Scholar. I believe the process went as follows (note that different regions may do things differently):
* School nominates the student * Essays (I think there were two) due in early December. * Students notified if they moved on * First interview (25 min long with a group of interviewers) (January) * Students notified if they moved on * Second round of interviews (also 25 min long with a group of interviewers) (January) * Students notified if they moved on * Maybe one more interview (I'm fuzzy on this) * Students notified if they are finalists * Various online stuff to replace what used to be the finalists weekend at UVA * Last interview (25 mins long with a group of interviewers) (end of February/beginning of March) * Students notified if they received the scholarship (early March) |
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Oh, and on the group call with all of the finalists, the director of admissions joined the call and told the students who had applied RD that they all had been admitted to UVA (the ED and EA students had already heard their results). So, while being nominated for a Jefferson scholarship doesn't matter for admission, my suspicion is that all finalists are admitted, probably to avoid the awkwardness of offering a scholarship to someone who ultimately doesn't get in.
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But, to be clear, both the Jefferson foundation and UVA say throughout the process that one has nothing to do with the other.
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Anonymous
| Hope that all helps |
Anonymous
Did your student accept the scholarship? |
Anonymous
No. The Alumni Association and the Jefferson Scholars Foundation are separate. |