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Your weights

• Application effort saved25

  Does the site cut the work of applying: one application reused for many scholarships, one-click or auto-apply, automatic reapplication to recurring awards?

• Match quality20

  How much of the student's profile does the site use to match scholarships, and can the student filter and sort the matches?

• Transparency and scam protection15

  Does each listing show who funds it, the rules, the deadline and the number of winners, and does the site describe how it vets listings and what it does not promise?

• Cost to the student10

  Is it free, and if not, are prices and refund terms clear on the site's own pages?

• Privacy and data sharing10

  What does the privacy policy say about selling or sharing student data, and how much of it? Higher means less sale or sharing stated.

• Help along the way10

  Does the site help with essays, track applications and send reminders before deadlines?

• Ratings from users5

  What do App Store and Trustpilot ratings say, and how many ratings stand behind them?

• Database size, as stated5

  How many scholarships does the site say it lists? We quote the site's own figure; we did not count.

Your ranking

Formula: your total = sum of (score x your weight) / sum of your weights. Scores are our editorial scores from 0 to 10, from public pages. Only the four scored sites appear here; sites reviewed on facts only have no scores to weight.

Prices change and are not part of the score. ScholarshipOwl's prices are not on its public pages; the other scored sites say they are free.