Alert Magazine Scholarship To qualify for this scholarship: 1. You must currently be a senior in high school. 2. Your high school must be in one or the following states: Colarado, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, or Wyoming. 3. You must have a grade point average of 2.5 or better. 4. You must have plans to attend college after gradutation (the college can be located in any state). All you have to do is write an essay (600-1000 words, double spaced) about a personal encounter you or someone you know has had with drug and/or alcohol abuse, how it was dealt with, what you learned from it, and what was right or wrong (in your opinion) about the way the incident or problem was handled. Scholarship essays are judged on the same criteria that essays written for a high school English class would be, i.e., thought content, thesis statement, supporting argument, grammar, puncuation, etc. No application is required. Please mail your double-spaced essay (600-1000 words), high school transcripts, photo, name, phone number, address and school name to Alert Magazine at P.O Box 4833, Boise Idaho 83711. If you have any questions call: 1-800-398-0842 between 8:00 a.m and 2:00 p.m Mountain Time. To be considered for the scholarship essays must include transcripts, a photo, and be typed with double-spacing.