How hard is it to get the Jefferson Scholarship at UVA?

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Can anyone who is a Jefferson scholar or was accepted or denied for it post stats? Thanks in advance

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Crazy hard. Stats will only be a threshold for that scholarship - the winners will be decided by “soft” factors, leadership, community service, etc. Also note that you must be nominated by your high school.

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It’s very competitive…hard to receive.

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They only pick the best. Its very competitive.

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thanks.
what would you guys say would be around the minimum SAT and uw GPA to have a good chance at this scholarship?

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Nobody has a good chance at it. If you can get nominated by your high school and you have a “hook” then you can be in the running.

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If you look at the website for the Jefferson Scholars Foundation (http://www.jeffersonscholars.org/), you can get some idea. The most recent information there tells you that 1600 kids were nominated, and 36 chosen; that works out to be about a 2% success rate IF YOU ARE NOMINATED. That’s a big “IF”.

I know that a local high school’s valedictorian received a Jefferson Scholarship for the Class of 2019. I think that he had a 4.85 GPA (weighted), a 36 ACT, and a 2350 SAT.

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Thank you everyone

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http://www.jeffersonscholars.org/selection-process

1600+ nominations nationwide - as a general rule, participating schools can nominate one candidate, but not every school nominates someone every year.
~120 finalists.
For the most recent year they list, 34 were selected.

So if you’re good enough to get your school’s nomination in the first place, it’s only about a 2% chance of actually being selected as a Jefferson Scholar.

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Thanks everyone. I decided not to even apply to the school anyway