PO Box 6008
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Phone: (609) 620-6106
Fax: (609) 620-6894
Email: njsp@lawrenceville.org
Web: www.lawrenceville.org/njsp
APPLICANTS AND GUIDANCE COUNSELORS:
In early October, information and application procedures for the
2009 New Jersey Scholars Program, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh:
One History. Three Countries. Shared Future. will be sent to
Guidance Departments of New Jersey's public, private and parochial
high schools. Applications are not available on line. A school's
Guidance Department nominates applicants and each school, not each
guidance counselor, may submit up to three applications. Applications
are due in the NJSP office by Friday, January 9, 2009 and are then
reviewed by the NJSP faculty. By early March, NJSP advises applicants
if they are selected as a semifinalist and invited to The Lawrenceville
School for a group interview and tour of the campus. Interviews
will be held on Friday March 27 and Saturday March 28, and the thirty-nine
members of the Class of 2009 will be selected after the last interview.
The dates of the 2009 program are June 28 through July 31.
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 Princeton University, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins
University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The University
of Cape Town, The University of Jordan, The University of Texas at
Austin, The University of Illinois and The Lawrenceville School.
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. The deadline for
applications is the first Friday in January. Applicants are advised
in late February 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
in early April.
This page is maintained by Laura Sabel Bauer
'84. Feel free to send comments, suggestions, address updates, etc.
Many thanks to the Lawrenceville School for the use of their web
server for these pages.