FastWeb: Is it worth the effort?

If you've thought any about how you're going to pay for college you're probably familiar with FastWeb -- the Internet's largest scholarship database/matchmaking service.

I'm starting to focus more on how to pay for Greg's college education and it sure would be nice to win some scholarships to supplement what we've saved. Of course FastWeb was one of my first stops and after spending a few hours with it I'm not sure it's worth the effort.

Rather than write my own detailed critique I'm just going to point to a recent article from Newsweek that accurately reflects my experience. FastWeb throws an awful lot of 'chaff' at you in the form of intrusive advertising and bogus 'promotional' scholarships, that you have to sift through to find the few kernals of relevant scholarship wheat.

Of course, they're supposed to have the largest database of scholarships and they may be the best there is. I plan to look at some other scholarship discovery sites to see if there's a better alternative. If there's one you like, please leave it in the comments.