The common ground is that Jefferson Scholars excel in the areas of leadership, scholarship, and citizenship. It is these three areas that are the sole criteria for selection.

Jefferson Scholars are athletes, student government officers, debaters, journalists, musicians, and thespians. They are students of the liberal arts, of engineering, architecture, and commerce. They are political activists, researchers, and technology experts. Running the spectrum from liberal to conservative, they hail from small town and big city; from all over the nation and the world.

Jefferson Scholars enjoy the journey and the quest: for knowledge, for life experience, for involvement, but most of all for excellence.

As you likely surmised by now, there is no formula for becoming a Jefferson Scholar. Yet it is understandable that one would desire quantifiable data about the Jefferson Scholars. It is provided here with the disclaimer that statistics provided are but averages, and if there is one thing that does not exist, it is an “average” or “typical” Jefferson Scholar.