Why do these scholarships make you jump through so many hoops just for $500?

<p>Right. I too looked into local ones. Where do you live that has lots of scholarship offers just for local residents - and that not many local residents know about and apply to themselves?>></p>

<p>My DD ended up with around 15 local scholarships that covered 2 years of school. We lived in a small town so the odds were much higher than in the huge county we lived in when my youngest graduated.</p>