<p>yea, they only send emails to finalists</p>
<p>No email... I only had like, 450 community service hours though, so it's not a big surprise, I guess. Congrats to all you finalists!!</p>
<p>^ 450 service hours is quite a lot lol. But yeah depends where the hours were...</p>
<p>yay I'm a finalist! It stinks not all finalists get an award though = /</p>
<p>how many finalists are there?</p>
<p>yea, and how many of us get the award?</p>
<p>i got it!
but i still havent recovered from the fact that i spent like 30 hours on the gates millenium scholarship and didnt get it..
this kind of set me in a good mood though..</p>
<p>well I'm 2 for 2: Gates and Best Buy. $1500 isn't even enough to buy a computer though</p>
<p>I know there's a 1000 winners... Best</a> Buy - Community Relations - Scholarships</p>
<p>Has anybody from the west coast heard?</p>
<p>i dont know what kind of computer your talking about but 1000 is plenty enough to by a computer unless your some person who likes to spend 5 hours a day on the computer playing games. :P</p>
<p>also those newer macs are just a waste of money. The older ones are good enough to last you for a good number of years. besides all you do with a laptop/computer in college is type/facebook/email etc.</p>
<p>My California s just received an email today that he is a finalist!! Does anyone know how many get to this point? It look like the award amount is significantly different than in years past.</p>
<p>I'm from CA, no e-mail at this point. I'm guessing I didn't get finalist? <em>cry</em> XD</p>
<p>It's ok. I am from CA and didn't get an email either. Oh well...lol i've gotten other scholarships already so screw Best Buy...</p>
<p>It's really funny though. I didn't apply for Gates and they sent me a letter of rejection...I'm not even clear how they got my address (maybe when I first visited to look at the application, realized it needed 100000 essays, and destroyed the link).</p>
<p>I wasn't named a finalist, and I'm a little confused about how they were chosen.<br>
I have a 4.81 cum GPA and 5.0 GPA for senior year. I'm taking 7 AP classes this year alone and have dropped my lunch. I'm ranked 2nd in my class of 430+. I have 4 elected leadership positions and am in about 10 clubs. I filled out the part for the clubs and community service completely-did not leave a single thing blank. I've done a lot of community service, so I was hoping to get this one. :(</p>
<p>Best Buy looks for people that have community service as a passion. I don't think that # of hours is the only thing they look at. Your strong academic record showed them that you're a great student, but the number of clubs you have, etc., showed that community service isn't your dominant passion.. you have many. That's fine to be a WRK, but for some scholarships, it's not important. I'm a strong student, like you, and had many, many hours of community service to one organization, but I've accepted that they're not looking for kids like me. That's fine. You'll win several other scholarships, I'm sure.. don't let this one get you down.</p>
<p>Hi - I just found this site. I'm a finalist for Bestbuy Sch. and am wondering about the "current" transcript that is supposed to be submitted. My school transcript only shows grades thru the end of my junior year. Is that the same for everyone else, or have you been submitting transcripts thru senior year (current quarter) for scholarship applications?</p>
<p>We are on block scheduling so as of February my transcript includes grade for my first half of senior year and this is what I am sending.</p>
<p>so i sent in my finalist stuff in like litearally two months ago…
did anyone get notified or know when we get notified??</p>
<p>it would be my first scholarship…
would be happy</p>
<p>yea, i didnt heat nething either. this would be my 3rd* but i need it lol…wish all the finalists got awards…darn! i guess now we wait.</p>