<p>One aspect of getting scholarships that we haven’t mentioned is the “resume building” it creates. Hard to say if this is worth the effort or not. But when trying for those internship slots, it does seem that having a couple of outside scholarships wins to put down might sound impressive to potential employers. Sigh, another gray area that makes it all very hard to decide. Generally speaking I think I would still come down in favor of only going after fairly decent sized scholarships, unless the small ones require very little effort to submit your name for. It is kind of silly, these days anyway, to be asked to fill out a long application and write a 500 word or more essay for $1,000 or so. That just doesn’t go very far these days.</p>