<p>I agree with all the posters above. My daughter just finished this process and we wasted WAY too much time on sites like Cappex and FastWeb. I really wish that I had found dodgersmom’s link a year ago when we started searching for colleges. Our GC never told us about guaranteed merit and we didn’t find out about it until it was much too late in the process for us. If I could do this all over again, I would forget completely about “outside scholarships” and focus only on the schools that offer generous merit aid.</p>