<p>A couple students I know personally were involved in this experiment, spearheaded by MONEY magazine writer Kim Clark, which compared the most popular college scholarship search engines. All of the search engines seemed to give the testers some “mismatches” (scholarships for which they did not fit the stated criteria) but some were worse than others.</p>
<p>In the resulting article, Kim Clark also offers some tips for getting the most out of these search tools, however flawed. See [Nab</a> more cash for college - Oct. 4, 2013](<a href=“http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/01/pf/college/college-scholarships.moneymag/index.html]Nab”>http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/01/pf/college/college-scholarships.moneymag/index.html) </p>
<p>Although the students I know who took part in the trial didn’t score any big pay-offs (yet), they enjoyed taking part in the MONEY trial and feel that they are now more familiar with what the search engines can (and can’t) provide.</p>