Merit award
The award is based on academic or activity achievement, with no financial-need threshold.
- Remove: Do you want to be considered for need-based funds?
- Remove: Financial need range
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Scholarship application: ask for what the award decision needs
A scholarship application form collects what a committee needs to check eligibility and compare applicants: the applicant's study, academic record, activities, and a written response to the prompt. Ask for each item only if the award rules use it, and say in the introduction which documents will arrive by another route. Leave out identifiers such as a Social Security number, and collect financial information only at the level of detail the award rules use.
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Field blueprint
Application fields a committee can score
| Field | Type | Required | Why you ask it |
|---|---|---|---|
Applicant full name | Short text | Required | Identifies the applicant on the score sheet and on every message the committee sends. |
Email address | Required | The committee's route for questions, requests for documents, and the decision. | |
Phone number | Phone | Optional | A backup route for urgent questions. Optional, because email is usually enough. |
Current school or program | Short text | Required | Confirms the enrollment condition that awards often set. |
Level of studyFinal year of secondary schoolUndergraduateGraduateOther | Single choice | Required | Applies the eligibility rule for each award level, so the committee does not have to infer it. |
Intended field of study | Short text | Required | Matters when an award is tied to a field, and helps the reader interpret the essay. |
Grade point average and scaleCopy the figure from your transcript, including the scale it uses. For example: 3.4 out of 4.0 | Short text | Required | Grading scales differ, so the committee needs the scale as well as the number. |
Do you meet the residency requirement stated above?YesNo | Single choice | Required | Screens out applicants who do not meet a stated rule before anyone reads the essay. |
Activities, work, or volunteeringList up to five. For each one, give your role and the approximate hours a week. | Long text | Optional | Shows commitments outside class, for awards that ask about them. |
Essay: describe a challenge you have worked throughKeep your answer within the word limit in the prompt. | Long text | Required | The main place the committee sees the applicant's own reasoning and goals. |
Do you want to be considered for need-based funds?Answer the next question only if you chose Yes here. YesNo | Single choice | Optional | Lets the committee decide whether the financial section applies, without asking for income details up front. |
Financial need rangeBelow the threshold in the award rulesAt or above the threshold in the award rulesI would prefer to discuss this with the office | Single choice | Optional | Records need in the ranges the award rule uses, instead of full income figures. |
Recommender name | Short text | Optional | Names the person the committee will contact. The letter itself reaches the committee by email, not through this form. |
Recommender email | Optional | Lets the committee write to the recommender directly for a letter, outside the form. | |
CertificationI confirm the information in this application is accurate and complete. | Multiple choice | Required | Records that the applicant reviewed the answers before the committee relies on them for eligibility checks. |
A filled example
A completed application for a fictional applicant
Example only, not a real submission
- Applicant full name
- Sam Example (fictional)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Level of study
- Undergraduate
- Intended field of study
- Environmental science
- Grade point average and scale
- 3.4 out of 4.0
- Do you meet the residency requirement stated above?
- Yes
- Essay: describe a challenge you have worked through
- The creek behind our school ran cloudy for a week, and the readings we collected did not match the county's published figures. I learned to repeat the test before I trusted either result.
- Certification
- Confirmed
Choose a variant
Adjust the core fields for merit, need, and renewal awards
Need-based award
The award rules use a financial-need threshold that you have written down in advance.
- Add: Financial need range, worded to match the threshold in your rules
- Remove: Recommender name
- Remove: Recommender email
Renewal
Current recipients applying again in a later year.
- Add: Credits or hours completed since the last award
- Add: Progress toward the goal stated in the award rules
- Remove: Recommender name
- Remove: Recommender email
Questions to leave out
Information an application should not collect
What is your bank account number?
Banking details belong to the payout stage, handled through a separate process with its own safeguards. An application is the wrong place to collect them.
Can we see your household's tax return?
Tax documents are a separate verification step. Ask for a range the award rule uses, and request any document through the office's own process after counsel has reviewed it.
Do you have a disability?
Ask only when a disability-specific award rule needs the answer, and name that rule in the introduction. Otherwise leave the question out.
What does your parent do for work, and where?
A parent's employer adds a second person's details to the form. Ask for family income only as the range your award rule uses.
Try it
Test the application on a phone before you publish it
After a response arrives
How the committee reviews what comes in
Watch the grid in the last days before the deadline
Each response is saved when it arrives, and the hourly run processes it later. The creator gets a notice once that run is done. In the final two days before the deadline, open the grid at the same time each day so late arrivals are not missed.
Score from an export, against a written rubric
Use the CSV export to build the scoring sheet. Write the rubric before the first application arrives, and score every applicant against the same criteria.
Track missing items as cases
If the committee chases missing letters or transcripts, turn on Customer Care case creation and record each missing item in your own tracking list. Set an owner in form settings, so every applicant has a named contact.
Send decisions from your own mailbox
The form does not send decisions to applicants. Write each result from your own email or letter template, and keep the export as the record of what the committee reviewed.
Frequently asked questions
What should a scholarship application form include?
Include contact details, the study and academic record the award rules use, one written response to the prompt, and any eligibility question the committee needs to screen applicants. Leave out financial detail beyond what the rules require, and name the documents that arrive by another route.
Can applicants attach transcripts or an essay file?
This form cannot take file uploads, so transcripts, letters, or essays in a document format have to arrive by email or through your own process. Say that in the introduction, and ask for the essay as text in the form so the committee can score it directly.
Is there a scholarship application template I can start from?
Rebuild the fields from this guide in any form tool you prefer. Attain OS publishes forms at a link you share and produces no printable file, so keep a Word or PDF copy in your own files.
How long should a scholarship application be?
Long enough for the committee to score every criterion, and no longer. Remove any question that no score sheet uses, and make the essay prompt the only long-answer field if you can.
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