<p>As long as they don’t have to pay for you it shouldn’t matter a whole lot if you’re on a scholarship or not. Definitely hit up professors at your own department and see if any of them would take you for the summer.</p>
<p>Also, if you only applied to one REU that’s probably a reason you didn’t win. I remember my junior year I applied to 10+ as a competitive candidate from a top engineering school with research experience and > 3.5 GPA, and I was only accepted to one program (at a school I had never even heard of prior to hunting down REUs in my field). They’re really competitive, and extremely difficult to get if you’re not a minority or from a smaller university.</p>