Mr. John P. Sauerman, Director
PO Box 6008
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Phone: (609) 620-6106
Fax: (609) 620-6894
Email: njsp@lawrenceville.org
Web: www.lawrenceville.org/njsp

The topic for the 2011 program will be Human Rights: Past. Present. Future. The program is for students who will be entering their senior year in 2011 and are residents of New Jersey.

APPLICATIONS ARE NOT AVAILABLE ON LINE because the application process is coordinated by each school's Director of Guidance. Details will be mailed to guidance directors in early October and each school is permitted to submit up to three applications.

The mission of the New Jersey Scholars Program is to reach out to 39 able and enthusiastic residents of New Jersey who are rising seniors and who come from a broad socio-economic, ethnic and racial cross-section of the state's population. The Program creates an intense, interdisciplinary intellectual experience that will change their lives -- to awaken in them the awareness of their potential to achieve academic excellence.

NJSP is, in a nutshell, what education should be--learning for its own sake, making connections, and asking questions. These skills are what all students should strive for.

The New Jersey Scholars Program has been one of the most amazing experiences of my life. I'd repeat my junior year in a second if it would mean a chance to be a Scholar again next year!

GATEWAY TO OPPORTUNITIES . . .

New Jersey Scholars Program offers an extraordinary intensive interdisciplinary five-week residential summer academic program at The Lawrenceville School for 39 of the most intelligent, outgoing, and highly motivated rising high school seniors who are residents of New Jersey. There is no comparable program targeting this audience.

No Cost For Participants--Selection Is Based On Merit

The program teaches students to think in a new way -- relating disciplines instead of dividing them. Scholars participate in lectures and small-group seminars where they actively engage with the disciplines. They also have extensive reading assignments, and pursue research at world class libraries and museums. They write essays and work closely with a faculty member to produce a 10-15 page interdisciplinary research paper. They are also stretched as they hone their creative talents in art, music, writing, drama and public speaking by contributing to an Arts Festival that is thematically related to the academic curriculum.

The Scholars do not receive grades and the faculty evaluates their work in an interactive fashion. As a result, the Scholars discover the love of learning for its own sake and gain confidence in their intellectual abilities. For many Scholars, the Scholars Program dramatically increases their ambitions for higher learning.

The program topics and faculty change biennially, and over the years, the faculty have been drawn from colleges and universities including Columbia University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pratt Institute, Princeton University, The University of Cape Town, The University of Illinois, The University of Jordan, The University of Texas at Austin, and The University of Vermont.

Students are nominated to the program by their schools, and the rigorous application process includes writing essays, providing a paper submitted for a class and a letter of recommendation as well as participating in a group interview. Students come from a broad ethnic and socio-economic cross-section of the states population creating a diverse learning community. Each year, the New Jersey Scholars Program conducts an extensive Outreach Program.

Information about the program is mailed in October to Guidance Departments at public, private and parochial high schools and each school may submit up to three applications. For the 2011 program, the deadline for applications is Friday, January 7, 2011. Applicants are advised in early March if they are selected as a semifinalist and invited to The Lawrenceville School for a tour and group interview in late March. The 39 New Jersey Scholars are selected and advised by early April.

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