The Best Buy Children’s Foundation is offering 1,200 scholarships of $1,000 each to high school students. Called the Best Buy Scholarship Program, it is designed to award students in grades 9-12 who plan to attend post-secondary education, have solid grades and are involved in community service or work experience.

Students must be living in the U.S. or Puerto Rico. Previous winners are ineligible to apply.

Scholarship recipients are selected based on academic achievement, volunteerism efforts and work experience.

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Eligibility:

• Students currently in grades 9-12 living in the United States or Puerto Rico.
• Have a minimum cumulative high school grade point average of 2.5 (on a 4.0 scale), or equivalent.
• Demonstrate commitment to and involvement in community volunteer service or work experience.
• Following high school graduation, plan to enter a full-time undergraduate course of study at an accredited two- or four-year college, university, or vocational-technical school in the United States or Puerto Rico.
• Applicants who are current high school seniors must enroll no later than the upcoming fall term.
• Applicants who are in grades 9-11 must plan to enroll no later than the fall term following high school graduation.
• Have never been selected as a Best Buy @15 recipient.

Best Buy will post the names of the recipients online at www.bestbuy-communityrelations.com or www.at15.com at the conclusion of the program in May.