I wouldn’t waste much time on fastweb (I started out there too 
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It’s a lot of small scholarships that won’t help much, and a few huge ones that 50,000 others are applying for.
The thing to know about outside scholarships is that they will not stack at most schools. So say your kid works his/her tail off, applying, filling out forms, writing endless essays and jumping through whatever other unique hoops each fastweb-based scholarship has, and you come up with – hurrah! $5,000.
So say your EFC is $20k:
When you get accepted at a school that costs $50k, maybe they would have offered you $30k in need-based aid, because they expect you to pay $20k. But when they see you’ve got $5k in outside aid, they lower the aid they give you to $25k. So it’s a wash, usually.