The 12th Annual Signet Classics Student Scholarship Essay Contest http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/services-academic/essayhome.html

Signet Classics is proud to host its twelfth annual Signet Classics Student Scholarship Essay Contest, in which five high school juniors or seniors can each win a $1,000 scholarship award to be used toward their higher education plus a Signet Classics library for their school! Students enter by writing an essay on one of four topics posed for this year’s competition book, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Entrant must be a full-time matriculated student in the eleventh or twelfth grade at time of entry or between the ages of 16-18 if home-schooled. Home-schooled students: Essays must be mailed by a parent or legal guardian on behalf of the student, along with a cover letter on the parent/legal guardian’s letterhead that certifies that the student is home-schooled and that includes the following details:

• Date
• Student’s full name, grade, address, e-mail and home telephone number
• Student’s equivalent grade
• Topic selected (#1, #2, #3 or #4)
• Certification by sponsoring parent for home-schooled student that the essay is the student’s original work

Essays submitted without a cover letter on parent/legal guardian’s letterhead or cover letters that do not include the above details will be disqualified. All entries must be postmarked by April 15, 2008 and received on or by April 22, 2008.

For more rules and conditions, and where to mail essays, please see their website at: http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/services-academic/essayhome.html