SCU Johnson Scholars Brochure

EDUCATING LEADERS FOR A MORE JUST, HUMANE, AND SUSTAINABLE

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A Tradition of Leadership Since its founding in 1851, Santa Clara University has educated generations of leaders committed to building a better world. Educators, researchers, founders of nonprofits, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, global business leaders, and members of presidential cabinets have been shaped by the tradition of a rigorous and holistic Jesuit, Catholic education that characterizes the Santa Clara experience.

Today, this remarkable heritage inspires the Johnson Scholars Program at Santa Clara University. Comprehensive and intellectually challenging, this program prepares graduates to make meaningful contributions toward a more just, humane, and sustainable world. It is designed to cultivate in students compassionate, intelligent, and empowered leadership that has distinguished a Santa Clara University education for more than 160 years.

As a Johnson Scholar, you will reach new academic heights, develop values-based leadership insights, and strengthen the commitment required to help build a better world.

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The Johnson Scholars Program Santa Clara University’s Johnson Scholars Program offers exceptionally talented, high-achieving students an extraordinary opportunity to develop the leadership skills, knowledge, and commitment required to help build a better world. The program is an integral part of a rigorous, honors-level undergraduate education—but with the privileges and challenges associated with joining a distinctive community of scholars.

Students selected as Johnson Scholars receive comprehensive merit awards that include full coverage of tuition, room, and board. These awards are renewable annually for up to four years.

Students who demonstrate the highest levels of academic ability, motivation, and leadership potential in their application for freshman admission to Santa Clara University will be considered for this prestigious award.

SCU’s Honors Program

Johnson Scholars are invited to participate in Santa Clara’s University Honors Program. By challenging SCU’s most able students to think more analytically and make deeper connections between their classes and the world, the University Honors Program enables them to attain the highest levels of academic achievement.

Creative leadership and research opportunities

Johnson Scholars Program Highlights The Johnson Scholars Program offers students the flexibility to explore the intersection of their values and leadership potential. This also allows them the freedom and financial support to make far more expansive and visionary life decisions than might otherwise be possible. Highlights of the Santa Clara Johnson Scholars experience include: A community of scholars

SCU provides Johnson Scholars with the structure to achieve distinction. They join a cohort of the University’s top-tier students with unparalleled access to faculty interaction, mentoring, and one-to-one engagement. From the moment they step on campus, scholars receive unmatched support and guidance to prepare and qualify for grants and fellowships throughout their college career and beyond.

After Johnson Scholars have completed their second year at Santa Clara, they are eligible to apply for a one-time summer stipend to fund a self-defined leadership experience, such as an internship, independent research, or cultural immersion travel.

Shaping a better world

At Santa Clara, the concept of leadership involves focusing on others, especially those on the margins of society. Here, students learn to appreciate other perspectives in ways that help them become more fully engaged in the world—as well as better prepared and empowered to foster lasting change.

The Johnson Scholars Commitment Johnson Scholars must maintain a 3.5 grade point average throughout their undergraduate career at Santa Clara. Each year, they also are required to write a letter to the program sponsor describing and reflecting on their experience at Santa Clara University and their development as leaders.

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Johnson Scholars Criteria The prestigious Santa Clara Johnson Scholars Program is offered to those students whose qualities, experiences, and observable success have prepared them to excel as leaders. Finalists will be selected on the basis of academic achievements, as well as their potential to contribute to the intellectual and civic life of SCU and the world at large. To be considered, candidates should display all of the following characteristics: n

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Demonstrated record of high academic performance in a rigorous curriculum An unweighted cumulative GPA of 3.8 or better An ACT composite score of 30 or above or an SAT combined score of 1400 in the math and critical reading sections Evidence of leadership and service that permeates the high-school career

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Local or international cultural immersion participation Coordination of volunteer activities Directing, stage managing, or designing a theatre production Choreographing a dance production Leadership in student government Starting a club or service organization Leadership in orchestra or choir Responsibility as captain of a team or officer of a club Coordination or organization of tutoring services Coordination of an effort to serve the poor or less-privileged Starting a business or nonprofit enterprise

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The Award Process Application to Santa Clara Candidates are selected from the early decision, early action, and regular admission application pools. No separate scholarship application is required. Admission applications must be submitted through the online Common Application process (www.commonapp.org). For more information about the scholarship selection process, visit www.scu.edu/johnsonscholars/selection.

Selection Process Semi-finalists will be notified by mid-February and asked to submit an essay by early March.

After essays are reviewed, finalists will be invited to a Scholarship Weekend in early April. Travel and lodging expenses for finalists will be paid by the University. The weekend includes attending classes,

touring the campus, meeting with faculty mentors, dining with members of the Johnson Scholars community, selection activities, and additional events.

A program for parents, who may attend at their own expense, will intersect and complement the student program.

Scholarship Awards From among the finalists, 10 Johnson Scholars for the academic year will be selected and notified in the weeks following Scholarship Weekend. All other finalists will receive a prestigious merit-based scholarship award such as a Presidential, Provost, or Dean’s scholarship.

The first operating university in California, SCU is known for its history, beauty, and distinctive, mission-style architecture. As a member of the Santa Clara community, you will thrive in an environment conducive to learning, reflection, and engagement.

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Santa Clara University Our mission is grounded in a 450-year Jesuit tradition of educating the whole person to become a leader of conscience, competence, and compassion.

With a strong community-based learning model that distinguishes its undergraduate experience, Santa Clara instills not only the knowledge required to succeed in a complicated world, but also the desire and ability to change it.

Santa Clara University is California’s oldest operating university. Known as “the Jesuit University in Silicon Valley,” the University’s reputation is about much more than its location. The spirit of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship that characterizes the Valley, together with an exceptional work ethic and the willingness to take chances, have been part of the Santa Clara University tradition since well before the start of the digital age.

As a Jesuit, Catholic unversity with a challenging and prestigious Johnson Scholars Program, Santa Clara is the optimal choice for students who are seeking an intellectually rigorous, spiritually enriching, and culturally engaging educational experience.

Silicon Valley Location Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Santa Clara is adjacent to San Jose, the 10th largest city in the U.S., and about 45 miles south of San Francisco.

Home to more than 2 million residents and 6,600 science- and technology-related companies, the region is known for its extraordinary visionaries, who have created some of the most significant scientific and technological advances of our age—as well as for the many internship and employment opportunities that abound here.

In the heart of Silicon Valley, Santa Clara University is ideally situated at the nexus of technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, and social justice. This powerful high-tech economy emerged alongside our long-established University, and this proximity serves Santa Clara’s best qualities and most exciting opportunities.

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About SCU/Quick Facts Santa Clara University Founded in 1851 106 acres; private-suburban setting 5,250 undergraduates 3,269 graduate students 516 full-time faculty

Undergraduate Student Body, Fall 2012 Total undergraduate enrollment Freshman class Transfer class Student/faculty ratio Average class size Freshmen who continue to sophomore year Undergraduate 6-year graduation rate

5,250 1,278 149 12:1 23 95% 86%

Freshmen, Fall 2012 Applied 14,339 Accepted 7,344 Enrolled 1,278 Living on campus 95% Middle 50% scores (admitted) Academic GPA (4.0 unweighted scale) 3.64 SAT critical reading 590–680 SAT math 610–700 ACT composite 27–31

The Johnson Scholars Program is about developing ethical leaders, building a rich sense of community, and achieving academic excellence. With the intellect and drive to excel and a natural inclination to care, as a Johnson Scholar, you will have the opportunity to develop as a leader shaped by a rigorous and holistic Jesuit education at Santa Clara.

Engaging talented and committed students who will form the next generation of ethical leaders is essential to our mission.

We invite you to bring your passions and perspectives to Santa Clara and further enrich our campus community.

The Johnson Scholars Program is funded by a generous gift from Rupert and Maryellie Johnson.

For more information please contact:

ashachter@scu.edu

The Jesuit University in Silicon Valley

www.scu.edu/johnsonscholars

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Amy Shachter, Ph.D. Senior Associate Provost for Research and Faculty Affairs Santa Clara University 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053 408-551-7041