TABLE 1.

Attributes of Lewis Scholars Applicants and Participants, 2023–2025

	Applicants (n = 9607)		Participants (n = 746)
	No.	%	No.	%
Year of application (%)
2023	2430	25.3	246	33.0
2024	3387	35.3	271	36.3
2025	3790	39.5	229	30.7
Age (%)
Under 18 years old	17	0.2	0	0.0
18–22 years old	8553	89.0	651	87.3
23–26 years old	767	8.0	59	7.9
27–35 years old	162	1.7	23	3.1
Over 35 years old	100	1.0	10	1.3
Declined to answer	8	0.1	3	0.4
Pell grant (%)
Pell Grant eligible	4382	45.6	430	57.6
Not Pell Grant eligible	4721	49.1	273	36.6
Don’t know/Declined to answer	504	5.2	43	5.8
First generation student (%)
First-gen college student	3705	38.6	358	48.0
Not a first-gen college student	5714	59.5	353	47.3
Don’t know/Declined to answer	188	2.0	35	4.7
Disability status (%)
Person with a disability	621	6.5	58	7.8
Not a person with a disability	6379	66.4	552	74.0
Don’t know/Declined to answer	242	2.5	47	6.3
Data unavailable	2365	24.6	89	11.9
Education status (time of application, %)
College freshman	4	0.0	0	0.0
College sophomore	1586	16.5	78	10.5
College junior	4019	41.8	296	39.7
College senior	2837	29.5	290	38.9
College graduate within 12 months	919	9.6	80	10.7
Don’t know/Declined to answer	242	2.5	2	0.3
Minority serving institution (%)
Attend or attended HBCU	553	5.8	67	9.0
Attend or attended other MSI	1498	15.6	180	24.1
Have not attended an MSI	4306	44.8	308	41.3
Don’t know/Declined to answer	338	3.5	10	1.3
Data unavailable	2912	30.3	181	24.3
Federal region of residence (%)
Region 1 (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)	504	5.2	22	2.9
Region 2 (NJ, NY, PR, VI)	1140	11.9	68	9.1
Region 3 (DE, DC, MD, PA, VA, WV)	1184	12.3	83	11.1
Region 4 (AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN)	1856	19.3	152	20.4
Region 5 (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI)	1126	11.7	78	10.5
Region 6 (AR, LA, NM, OK, TX)	966	10.1	104	13.9
Region 7 (IA, KS, MO, NE)	191	2.0	19	2.5
Region 8 (CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY)	203	2.1	40	5.4
Region 9 (AZ, CA, HI, NV, Mariana, Guam)	2012	20.9	162	21.7
Region 10 (AK, ID, OR, WA)	294	3.1	17	2.3
Other/Declined to answer	131	1.4	1	0.1