Scholarship Committee

The Scoring Tool for Scholarship CommitteesNot the whole lifecycle. Just the part where your committee decides.---Coming SoonContact Dan Johnson at [email protected] to be notified when we launch — or to tell us what you need this to do.---What Is a Scholarship Committee Scoring Tool?A scholarship committee scoring tool is software that lets multiple reviewers independently score scholarship applicants on a shared rubric, with all scores visible to the committee chair in real time — without emailing spreadsheets back and forth.ScholarshipCommittee.com is exactly that, and nothing more. It does not collect applications. It does not manage eligibility. It does not send award letters or process payments. It is a single-purpose tool for the part of the scholarship process where your committee reads applications and decides who wins.---You Don't Need a $300/Month Platform to Score 50 ApplicationsThe big scholarship management platforms do everything — application collection, eligibility screening, award letters, donor reporting, payment processing, applicant portals. They are built for university financial aid offices and large foundations with full-time staff and complex multi-stage review processes.You have a volunteer committee, a stack of applications, and a deadline.You don't need all of that. You need one thing: a way for your committee to score applicants together, without chasing spreadsheets.That's all ScholarshipCommittee.com does.---How Scholarship Committees Currently Score Applications — and Why It Breaks DownMost scholarship committees manage scoring the same way: the chair builds a scoring spreadsheet, emails it to each committee member, waits for responses, chases the ones who haven't replied, receives sheets in different formats, and then manually aggregates everything into a master document the night before the decision meeting.This process has predictable failure points. Committee members lose the email. They score on paper and forget to transcribe. Two members compare notes before scoring independently, compromising the integrity of the evaluation. The chair can't tell where things stand until every sheet is back. If the award is ever questioned — by an applicant, a donor, or a board member — the documentation is a patchwork of emails and mismatched spreadsheets that nobody can reconstruct cleanly.ScholarshipCommittee.com replaces this entire process with a single shared platform where every committee member scores independently, in real time, and the chair has a live view of every score the moment it's submitted.---How It WorksSet up your cycle in minutes
Create your scoring criteria, add your applicants, and invite your committee members by email. Your entire program is live and ready to score in under 30 minutes — no IT department, no training session, no onboarding call.Every committee member gets their own login
Each reviewer scores independently without seeing other members' scores first — preserving the integrity of your evaluation. No shared passwords, no one influencing anyone else before they've made their own judgment.Score from anywhere, on any device
Committee members score on their own schedule — at their desk, on their phone, whenever they have time. No scheduling a meeting just to fill out a scoring sheet.The chair sees everything in real time
One live dashboard shows exactly who has scored, who hasn't, and where every applicant stands. No more emailing committee members asking if they've sent their sheets back.Custom scoring criteria for your program
Set up whatever rubric your committee uses — academic achievement, financial need, essay quality, community involvement, leadership, or any combination. Weight criteria however your program requires.Built-in notes and comments per applicant
Committee members add written comments alongside their scores. The chair sees every comment in one organized view — not scattered across email threads.Clean export when you're done
When your committee finishes scoring, export a complete record of every applicant, every score, every reviewer, and every comment — ready for your board presentation, your donor report, or your files.---Simple, Honest Pricing$37 per cycle.One flat fee per scholarship cycle — not per user, not per applicant, not per month.Unlimited committee members. Unlimited applicants. 90 days to complete your cycle from the moment you start. No subscription. No annual contract. No surprise fees when you add another reviewer or upload one more application.Pay $37 when you're ready to start. Come back next year and pay $37 again.---Who This Is Built ForThese are the programs ScholarshipCommittee.com was designed around.Local and community foundations administering scholarship funds on behalf of donors — running the same scoring cycle every spring with a rotating volunteer committee and no full-time program staff.Rotary clubs, Kiwanis clubs, and civic organizations running annual scholarship programs with a small board committee and a tight timeline. The same dozen volunteers who run everything else are also the scholarship committee.High school booster clubs and PTAs awarding scholarships from fundraising proceeds, with parent volunteers doing the scoring from home on their own schedules.Corporate giving programs running employee scholarship funds for dependents, scored by a small internal committee each cycle — HR administrators who need a clean, documented process without a six-month software implementation.Church and faith-based organizations administering scholarship awards from endowment funds, with deacon boards or trustees serving as the committee — often spread across multiple locations with no shared office.Fraternal organizations and alumni associations running scholarship programs for members or their children, with volunteer committees spread across the country who need to score remotely on their own time.---Who Could Use ThisBeyond the programs above, ScholarshipCommittee.com is built for any organization that runs a structured group evaluation process with a committee of volunteer reviewers on a fixed cycle.County and municipal scholarship programs administered by local government agencies or community foundations on behalf of public endowments — where documentation and defensibility of the selection process carry additional weight.Union and labor organization scholarship funds awarding scholarships to members' dependents, scored annually by a small elected committee.Sorority and fraternity alumni chapters running scholarship programs for undergraduate members, with graduate chapter volunteers scoring applications remotely.Athletic booster clubs awarding scholarships to graduating senior athletes, scored by a parent committee on a compressed spring timeline.Hospital and healthcare foundations awarding scholarships to employees pursuing continuing education or advanced degrees, reviewed by a small internal committee each cycle.Arts and cultural organizations running merit-based scholarship or grant programs for young artists, musicians, or performers — with adjudicators scoring applications against artistic criteria rather than purely academic ones.Any scholarship program where a committee chair has ever said: "I just need everyone to score their applications and send me back the sheet" — and then spent the next two weeks chasing responses.---How ScholarshipCommittee.com Compares to Full Scholarship Management PlatformsFull scholarship management platforms — SmarterSelect, Submittable, OpenWater, Evalato, and others — are designed to manage the entire scholarship lifecycle from a single system. They collect applications through a branded portal, screen for eligibility, route applications through multi-stage review workflows, communicate with applicants, process award payments, and generate donor impact reports. They are powerful, comprehensive, and appropriate for university financial aid offices, large private foundations, and national scholarship programs with full-time staff and complex operational requirements. Pricing typically starts at $300 per month and scales up from there.ScholarshipCommittee.com does one thing: it gives your committee a shared platform to score applicants together. It does not collect applications. It does not manage eligibility or communicate with applicants. It does not process payments or generate donor reports. If you need any of those things, the platforms above are the right choice — and they are good at it.If you have your applications, you have your committee, and you just need a better way to score them — ScholarshipCommittee.com is $37 per cycle.---What Is the Right Way for a Scholarship Committee to Score Applications?The most defensible scholarship evaluation process has three characteristics: independence, consistency, and documentation.Independence means each committee member scores applicants without knowing how other members have scored them. Seeing a colleague's scores before completing your own introduces bias and undermines the integrity of the evaluation. A well-run committee scores blind and compares results only after every member has submitted independently.Consistency means every applicant is scored against the same criteria, weighted the same way, by every reviewer. Ad hoc scoring — where committee members apply different standards to different applicants — produces results that are hard to defend if a selection is questioned.Documentation means the committee has a clean, complete record of who scored what, when, and why. If an applicant, a donor, or a board member ever asks how a selection was made, the chair should be able to produce a clear audit trail — not reconstruct it from email threads three months later.ScholarshipCommittee.com is built to produce all three. Independent scoring by design. Consistent criteria applied uniformly. Automatic documentation of every score and comment, exportable at any time.---Not for EveryoneScholarshipCommittee.com is not the right tool if you need to collect applications online, manage eligibility requirements, communicate with applicants, send award letters, process payments, or run a complex multi-stage review process.If you need all of that, SmarterSelect, Submittable, and OpenWater are built for you — and they're good at it. Expect to pay $300 or more per month.ScholarshipCommittee.com is built for the scholarship program that already has its applications, already has its committee, and just needs a better way to score them together.If that's you — this is your tool.---Built by the Team Behind JurorSearchScholarshipCommittee.com is a product of JS Applications, the team behind JurorSearch — the real-time collaboration platform used by trial attorneys to evaluate jurors during jury selection.The problem is the same: a group of people who need to independently evaluate a large pool of candidates, coordinate their scores in real time, and reach a defensible group decision under a deadline. JurorSearch solved it for courtrooms. ScholarshipCommittee.com solves it for scholarship committees.Same architecture. Simpler price. Built for the committee that just needs to get this done.---Coming SoonScholarshipCommittee.com launches soon at $37 per cycle — unlimited reviewers, unlimited applicants, 90 days to complete.If you run a scholarship program and want to be notified when we launch — or if you want to tell us what you need this product to do — contact Dan Johnson at [email protected].---ScholarshipCommittee.com. The scoring tool for scholarship committees.A product of JS Applications — also the team behind JurorSearch, WeNeedToPick, TheRosterHub, FCPAHub, TheSeasonHub, and ProposalScoring.