Surprisingly, students are largely unaware of the many unknown scholarships that are available in their own community. Some high schools have taken the initiative to release scholarship lists of these local unknown scholarships to their students, so that they are aware of them, but few have done this to date. When the student talks about financial aid with their high school guidance counselor, they need to ask specifically about local scholarships that are available along with state scholarships too. Encourage your school to put together a list of the local college scholarships that are available, so that more students can get financial aid, and there will be far fewer unknown and unused scholarships that go unclaimed for college students. More on a unusued scholarship for college.