Dear HN,
I'm currently a student at a local university, and am having trouble with scholarships. I'm pretty good as an academic student (graduating with an associates degree at the same time I'm getting a high school diploma at 18), but I fear going to a high ranking school will be financially impossible for me. Scholarship sites exist everywhere, but due to the massive volume of students all over applying to them, I don't think I even have a chance.
However, I am a programmer. I'm engaged in many projects, although I haven't contributed much in terms of open source. I have a code eval account, a github account, and follow all the hacker news I can take. But doing these things doesn't get me a programming job, and it doesn't seem to get me a scholarship either. I am continuing to work on code eval projects in hopes for a job, but scholarships is going to be a bigger priority here shortly.<p><pre><code> Is there anything I can do to apply for scholarships based on code, or hacking skills?</code></pre>