Does your high school have a list of local scholarships? For example, our local Women’s Club offers a couple hundred dollars to a graduating senior. VFW, Rotary Club, etc. might offer a small scholarship. Those are often referred to as “book scholarships” because they won’t make cover tuition. I applied to any and all of those when I was a high school senior and that couple hundred dollars here and there did add up. (My guess is that deadlines have passed on most of those, though.)