<p>Most outside scholarships available to continuing students have questions on them very similar to those available right out of high school. In fact, his brother picked up several of the forms for him from the high school guidance counselor. These are scholarships offered to either high school seniors or continuing college students. Several of the ones he is working on are need based to some degree, but since he does have that about $8000 gap between his Caltech scholarship and our EFC, he does have need that everyone will recognize. Not too worry about getting too many outside scholarships either. As I understand it, if they use up things like work study award or Caltech loans, they will only then reduce your Caltech scholarship with whatever amount necessary from the outside scholarships. You are, of course, always stuck with your EFC, unless some of those Caltech merit scholarships offer you something better. he is applying for some scholarships offered to continuing students that you can find on things like Fastweb, but they do not do a very good job of sifting out the ones that apply. I try to paw through some of those for him. Good luck in the money hunt.</p>