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yankeegirl49, those random drawings for scholarships are ploys used by these organizations for advertisement purposes on their letters to hook people into giving them money. They take a small fraction of the amount of money they take in from their audience that actually believes there's merit to their organization, and in turn put out some meager carrot on a stick so they can describe the amazing and vast benefits and prestige of their glorious organization.
In reality, you can find plenty of legitimate scholarship opportunities that are free to apply to, as they should be (like through fastweb which is a scholarship search engine, and coincidentally places you on the mailing lists of these who's who, national honor roll, nhssss, and other glorious programs).
Placing this "award" on your college application is analogous to placing on it that you won some "thank you for participating!" award at some science fair (except it would actually require you to do work for the science fair while the glorious organizations require nothing, and even "rewards" fake applications with praises and advertisements of year books and graduation trinkets).
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