Scholarship Matcher

Give Joy a student's profile and get back the scholarships in your catalog they actually qualify for, each with the award amount, the reason they match, and the deadline.

For Financial Aid Counselors Academic Advisors Students Scholarship Coordinators
Sample prompt to Joy's Assistant

Using our scholarship catalog in the Knowledge Center, match this student to the scholarships they qualify for and rank the best fits. Here's their profile: [student profile]. For each match, show the award amount, why they qualify, and the deadline.

What it can look like

An illustrative example. Your output will reflect your own sources, data, and prompts.

Using our scholarship catalog in the Knowledge Center, match this student to the scholarships they qualify for and rank the best fits. Here's their profile: junior mechanical engineering major, 3.7 GPA, Ohio resident, first-generation college student, with demonstrated financial need (aid index around $4,000). For each match, show the award amount, why they qualify, and the deadline.

I checked Jordan's profile against every scholarship in the catalog in your Knowledge Center. Four of them are a clear qualify, and I've ranked them by award size below.

I matched Jordan's profile against every scholarship in your catalog and found four they clearly qualify for. Ranked by award size, here is each one with the criterion it clears and the deadline to hit.

ScholarshipAwardWhy you matchDeadline
College of Engineering Dean's Scholarship$5,000Declared engineering major with a 3.7 GPA, above the 3.5 minimum; renewable each year the GPA holdsMar 15
First-Generation Scholars Fund$3,000First-generation student with documented financial need under the $6,000 aid-index capFeb 28
Ohio Resident STEM Award$2,500Ohio resident enrolled full-time in a STEM fieldApr 1
Junior Year Merit Grant$1,500Full-time junior in good standing with a GPA of at least 3.0Rolling, review by May 1

Together these come to $12,000 if all four are awarded. The Dean's Scholarship and the Junior Year Merit Grant stack with need-based aid; the First-Generation Scholars Fund and the Ohio Resident STEM Award count toward the same need calculation, so confirm layering with the aid office before promising the full amount.

The strongest fit is the College of Engineering Dean's Scholarship: it is the largest award, Jordan clears every criterion with room to spare, and it renews for the rest of the degree as long as the GPA stays above 3.5. It is also the earliest big deadline after the First-Generation Fund, so start there.

Want me to draft the essay responses Jordan needs for the First-Generation Scholars Fund? I can start from the prompt in the Knowledge Center.

From profile to matched awards

Scholarship Matcher takes a student's profile — major, GPA, residency, background, and financial need — and checks it against every scholarship in your catalog. Instead of cross-referencing eligibility rules by hand, you get a ranked list of the awards that student actually qualifies for.

  1. Load your scholarship catalog

    Add your scholarships to the Knowledge Center — endowed awards, departmental funds, external listings — each with its eligibility criteria, amount, and deadline. Joy references them for every match.

  2. Give Joy the student's profile

    Share the student's major, GPA, residency, background, and financial need. Paste it in, or point Joy at a record already in your Knowledge Center.

  3. Review the ranked matches

    Joy returns the scholarships the student qualifies for, ranked by fit, each with the award amount, the criterion they clear, and the deadline.

  4. Use it where you work

    Copy the list into an advising email, a student-portal message, or your notes. Refine with a follow-up — narrow to renewable awards, or the ones with the soonest deadlines.

  5. Make it one click for your team

    Save this ask as a custom command on the assistant your team already uses, so anyone can run it in one step.

Make it yours

Profile-Based Matching

Match on major, GPA, residency, background, and financial need against each scholarship's real criteria.

Your Own Catalog

Joy matches against the scholarships in your Knowledge Center, not a generic external database.

Deadlines Front and Center

Every match shows the application deadline, so nothing lapses unclaimed.

Eligibility You Can Explain

Each match names the exact criterion the student clears, so you can justify it to the student and the committee.

Departmental Awards

Focus on one college's endowed scholarships for major-specific advising.

External Scholarship Search

Match against outside listings you've added to the catalog, not just institutional funds.

Renewal Check

Confirm a current student still meets the criteria to keep a renewable award.

Family Summary

Turn the matches into a plain-language list a student and parents can act on together.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I match students to scholarships they qualify for?

Give Joy the student's profile — major, GPA, residency, background, and financial need — and it checks that against every scholarship in your Knowledge Center. You get a ranked list of the awards the student qualifies for, each with the amount, the reason they match, and the deadline.

Can AI find scholarships a student is eligible for?

Yes. Joy compares the student's profile against the eligibility criteria of each scholarship in your catalog and returns the ones that fit. Every match names the specific criterion the student clears, so the reason is transparent rather than a guess.

Does it search outside scholarships or only ours?

Joy matches against whatever you put in the Knowledge Center. Most schools load their own endowed and departmental awards; if you add external listings to the catalog, Joy matches against those too. It does not crawl the open web on its own.

How does it know a student qualifies?

It reads the eligibility rules you stored with each scholarship — GPA minimums, majors, residency, class year, need thresholds — and compares them to the profile you provide. When a criterion is ambiguous or needs verification, Joy flags it rather than assuming the student clears it.

How can we reduce unclaimed scholarship funds?

Unclaimed awards usually come from nobody connecting the right student to the right fund before the deadline. Running a match during advising surfaces every eligible award at once, with deadlines attached, so counselors and students can act on them in time.

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