<p>I looked it up, but how hard is it to get accepted??</p>
<p>Really, really hard. You need absolutely top grades, top scores, and major leadership roles in ECs.</p>
<p>The recipients are called Jefferson Scholars, not Jeffersonian Scholars.</p>
<p>Near impossible… Seen people on this site apply to UVA with 4.0gpa and 2400 and still not get the scholarship… If you get it you are truely distinguished.</p>
<p>For being so selective, I would’ve expected the alumni of the program to have had more distinguished careers/fellowships. They all did solidly of course but no truly elite fellowships/grad schools. Do the Morehead/Robertson kids end up doing better?</p>
<p>The only Jeff Scholar I know is at Harvard now. Not too shabby.</p>
<p>The one I know best got a Rhodes Scholarship, then a PhD at Yale.</p>
<p>A guy from my school won the scholarship this year, and he was pretty amazing. Student body president, likely valedictorian, 23something SATs, and editor-in-chief of the school paper. I know a couple others who have got to the interview round, and all of them were great students too.</p>
<p>Keep in mind the Jefferson Scholarship is nomination only, you can’t just download an application and send it in.</p>
<p>My school has an application process to selected as our school’s “nomination”…</p>
<p>It seems to me that only certain high schools can nominate students (not every high school in the country participates). Ask your guidance counselor if your school submits a nominee.</p>
<p>You are nominated, complete an application(October some time), and then a few students are invited to interview (perhaps over a couple of days) and the winners are selected from that group.</p>
<p>Thanks for all those helpful replies!</p>