The Johnson Scholarship review process is comprehensive and takes into account not only academic achievement, but also leadership outside the classroom. There is no minimum GPA or SAT/ACT requirement to be named a finalist, but the competition is fierce. For example, the 208 Johnson Scholarship finalists that were invited to the 2011 competition had an average Critical Reading + Math SAT score of 1510, an average ACT score of 34, and averaged in the top 2% of their graduating classes.