2010 Rhode Island Code
Title 16 Education
CHAPTER 16-37 Best and Brightest Scholarship Fund
§ 16-37-5 Eligibility for scholarship.


§ 16-37-5 Eligibility for scholarship. – To be considered for the scholarship, all applicants must:

(1) Be a graduating senior at a public, parochial, or private high school in Rhode Island;

(2) Be accepted for admission at an accredited college or university in the United States or Canada;

(3) Achieve one or more of the following distinctions:

(i) Be in the top ten percent (10%) of the applicant's graduating class as of the end of the second quarter of the senior year;

(ii) Have a score in the ninetieth (90th) percentile or above on either the mathematics or verbal section of the scholastic aptitude test (S.A.T.);

(iii) Have a combined mathematics and verbal S.A.T. score in the eighty-fifth (85th) percentile or above.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1987, ch. 275, § 1.)

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