What are some scholarships for a junior like me?

What are the chances of winning scholarships?

• what are the chances of someone winning scholarships that are considered weird..like i found sites that offer scholarships for people with red hair blonde hair green/blue eyes slavic scholarships tall or short or overweight scholarships left handed scholarships etc...and how many scholarships does the average person apply for in a lifetime???? lets say you applied for 100 scholarships in a year...what are the chances of winning any??? thanks

• Answer:

  For small, obscure scholarships, the chances are pretty good. If you apply for 100 of them, I'd say chances are good that you'll win at least one. The ones with the best chances are ones that fit all of the following: 1) Not worth much money ($500 or so) 2) Aren't open to everyone 3) Require a significant amount of work to apply for (an essay rather than just a form) For more common ones worth a lot of money (>$1000), your chances are probably better if you just buy a lottery ticket. Your best chance at a scholarship is just getting one from the university you go to. Most private organizations that give scholarships can only afford to give one or two per year. Universities have multi-million (sometimes multi-billion) dollar endowments and can afford to give tons of scholarship money (especially since they're getting most of the money back). In high school, I probably applied to about a dozen scholarships and got nothing. The private university I went to gave me almost $30,000 per year, I got $5,000 split over 2 years from the alumni association, and got about $5,000 per year for 3 years from a special endowed fund for people in my major.