<p>The scholarships on Fastweb have thousands of students applying. Students applying to local scholarships have a much higher likelihood of actually winning because there are fewer applicants. I found most students just do not want to be bothered and use the excuse that they don’t have the time to apply. I insisted my kiddos, as high school seniors, apply for at least 10 outside scholarships each. The key was I checked out who had won them in the past (easy with Google) to guesstimate if financial need was involved and what quality of the winners may have helped them win. That way I could eliminate certain scholarships that they were very unlikely to win.For no more than 1-2 hours per application, they had a 30 percent win rate at about $90 for each hour invested. They all then realized how few people apply for some of these scholarships. D3 just called me 2 days ago to tell me she’d just been awarded a $2000 scholarship for an essay that took her 20 minutes to write. Her sisters have also continued to apply for scholarships in college that have a smaller pool of applicants and have successfully won some. They all have part time jobs but the jobs do not pay as well on an hourly basis ; )</p>