Avoiding Scholarship Scams

<p>Yeah, that doesn't look very good. They have a ton of advertisements everywhere and books & videos for sale. How much income from retail and personal information sales do they generate versus the few small scholarships they award? Good scholarship providers are non-profit organizations staffed with volunteers, or charitable foundations set up by for-profit organizations, or a few paid charity employees who aren't there to sell things to the student who needs money! </p>

<p>The best scholarships to apply for are the ones with very specific eligibility criteria - this narrows down the competition. Grades 9-12; GPA 2.0 or higher; U.S. citizen doesn't really narrow things down. It looks like they're just trying to build a market and using Fastweb to do their business advertising. If you know what you want to major in or what school you want to go to (or even what state the school you want to go to is in), this helps with finding more specific-eligibility scholarships.</p>