<p>I also won the Mercedes Benz Drive Your Future Scholarship last year, worth 10,000 over 4 years. They also send lots of random stuff, like shirts, messenger bags and keychains.</p>
<p>Don't give up on the Fastweb ones. The awards seem to be arbitrary sometimes (or at least to seek a profile that many students don't fit, despite their laudatory achievements). And it can be very frustrating if a student's school won't cooperate or eligibility rules have strange, unintended consequences. Still, my daughter has won over $20,000 in outside scholarships through Fastweb, including the $1,000 Raytheon Math Moves U award she just found out about (and the wonderful thing here is that Raytheon is also making a $1,000 grant to her high school math department in her honor, which is a delight in itself).</p>
<p>For the Mercedes Benz Drive Your Future Scholarship, Though my mom went to college in Nigeria, am i still first generation, since I am the first to go to an American college?</p>
<p>How do you find local scholarships on Fastweb? For me, local ones never seem to show up.</p>
<p>I think that you have to apply to a lot of scholarships all over the internet to have any real chance (IMHO)</p>
<p>ringo, what do you man by that?</p>
<p>I mean that there are a lot of us looking for scholarships. So the competition is pretty tough. I would recommend applying everywhere to help your chances. Especially if you have the time and the money means a big deal to you.</p>
<p>ya, best buy is the only practical one on fastweb.</p>
<p>I'm winning my store's for sure. easiest $2,000 I ever will make. The kid who won it last year had a 3.8 and 29 on the ACT, pitiful competition in many areas.</p>
<p>My D. applied to Best Buy with higher stats and never heard from them or any others on Fasweb, except that her poem was published (no $$, though). However, she has almost full tuition paid thru other scholarships (including summers and abroad). No complaints. Fastweb was a waste of time!!!</p>
<p>I won a $3,000 scholarship that I found on Fastweb (link</a>). It was the only scholarship I applied for; I was really lucky.</p>
<p>I won the Bill Gate Millennium Scholarship on Fastweb and there was a local scholarship that I also won that was on Fastweb (even though I had heard about it from my counselor). I did apply for a few more scholarships on Fastweb but never heard from them.</p>
<p>Gates Millennium hardly qualifies as a scholarship to be won on fastweb since you have to be nominated for it. You can't just apply.</p>
<p>Well, I wouldn't have known about it if I hadn't looked on Fastweb. It's a scholarship, nonetheless.</p>
<p>I heard that the Gates scholarship covers EVERYThING--Tuition, room and board, and everything else. Is that true?</p>
<p>i think the gates scholarship is a full ride to any college you can get in to. </p>
<p>i'll be a freshman in college this year, and i applied to so many fastweb scholarships last year, and didn't get a single one. i know it's not because i wasn't qualified, because i received many of the scholarships i applied to through my counselor's office (like local ones), and some that are nationally known and that fastweb also lists (like the best buy and lowe's scholarships). my advice is don't apply to the live poet's society one or the outstanding students of america one (they all just want your money, and will tell you that you entered the next round just to try and get you to buy their publications), and don't apply to any of those small, "memorial" scholarships where the website looks amateur-designed. </p>
<p>if you guys are really looking for a substantial amount of money for college, i would tell you that fastweb is a place to start, to get an idea of the number and type of scholarships out there, especially the more nationally known ones, but to find where the REAL money is, apply to the scholarships from your counselor's office and from your college. perseverance does pay off - i've got more than 2/3 of my college expenses paid for! good luck everyone!</p>
<p>My counselor's office didn't provide any help in looking for scholarships. I supposed they assumed that if your parents paid $25,000 per year to send you to a private high school, they were probably well enough off to cover college, too... but since I (for reasons too complicated to explain here) attended said private high school free of charge, none of that really applied to me, and I had to look for funding elsewhere. Judging from your experiences with Fastweb, I feel doubly lucky that I actually won something (not a huge scholarship, but something) from there.</p>
<p>My GC was at a GC conference, and somebody asked whether anybody had any student win an award from Fastweb, and none of the 120 or so people there raised their hands. Fastweb sucks.</p>
<p>I agree, Fastweb is a waste of time! The best shot to get lots of money is to apply in-state, at least in Ohio, they seem to appreciate if you are staying in your home state, particularly if you are top of your class - $3700 from state applicable to any college in Ohio (including private) just for that.</p>
<p>Dancergal92 ,</p>
<p>What scholarship did you win from fastweb? What was the name of it?</p>