<p>My son is will graduate from UVA in two weeks. He wasn’t really going to consider UVA until he was nominated by his school for the Jefferson Scholarship. He was eliminated after the second round of interviews, where the second interview was pleasant enough but not at all focused on what he expected. We realized the competition was very tough, and you never really know the filtering criteria. He doesn’t strive to be a political leader or change the world, so that probably did not help. In any case, you could say the JS program achieved its goal of helping to get a top student and leader in HS to attend UVA and go on to success there…</p>