Alert Scholarship

Scholarship Overview

This scholarship is for seniors attending a high school in Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington or Wyoming. To qualify for this scholarship, applicants must have a minimum 2.5 GPA and plan to attend college after graduation (the college may be located in any state). To apply for this scholarship, applicants must write an essay about a personal encounter they or someone they knew had with drug and/or alcohol abuse. In the essay, applicants must explain how the situation was dealt with, what was learned from it, what others can learn from the experience, and what was right or wrong about the way the incident or problem was handled. Scholarship winners will have their picture and essay published in an issue of Alert magazine. This scholarship has no deadline; applications are accepted year-round.