I am a high school senior, and I am curious as to whether I should apply for engineering departmental scholarships at the schools I applied to. Many of these scholarships have February deadlines, but I applied to 12 schools and will not know most of my regular decision admissions decisions until they are released in late March. I feel like doing these departmental scholarship applications would not be worth it, since they require additional essays, are not worth a lot of money, and I am unsure of which school I am going to attend; even if I win some departmental scholarships, they would be useless unless they were from the school I decide to attend. Therefore, I feel like focusing on local scholarships from outside organizations would be more beneficial, since they can be applied to any school I choose to attend. Also, I can still apply for departmental scholarships later on, when I am a freshman in college and certain that they will decrease the next year's college costs.
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