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Cirkled In Scholarship Search
Cirkled In is a free student portfolio platform with a scholarship search covering 1,000-10,000 scholarships. Students can filter by state, grade level, major, essay or no essay, GPA, deadline and ethnicity without an account. Listings show the sponsor, amount and a dated deadline, and the site promotes its own no-essay scholarship at the top of the results.
Best for: Students who want to filter a national list of 1,000-10,000 scholarships by state, major, GPA and deadline without signing up.
Limitation: The site's own no-essay scholarship is pinned at the top, and many small links make the filters fiddly on phones.
Our rating
3.8out of 5
What our research found
Matching Power (3.5 / 5)
- Filters cover state, major, grade level and GPA.
- Essay, deadline and background filters narrow further.
- A state filter narrowed the results.
- Searches can be saved.
Scholarship Quality (4.5 / 5)
- Listings show current dated deadlines.
- Each listing names the sponsor and amount.
- The site pins its own scholarship at the top.
Ease of Use (3.5 / 5)
- Many filter links are small to tap on phones.
- Results list links onward without opening a page.
- Pages fit phone screens without sideways scrolling.
Privacy & Marketing (3.5 / 5)
- The site promotes its own scholarship at the top.
- Pages load Google analytics and a location lookup.
- A privacy policy is linked from the page.
How we rate
Matching Power
How well it helps you find the scholarships it lists, by filtering on location, need, merit, major, college and high school.
A 5 means you can narrow the list by where you live, need, merit, major, college or high school, and a big site brings the best fits to the top. A 1 means little or no way to narrow, and in the middle some filters work but many results still do not fit.
Scholarship Quality
How complete, current and traceable its scholarship listings are.
A 5 means nearly every listing is current, links to the real sponsor and gives enough detail to act on. A 1 means most are out of date, incomplete or do not lead to the sponsor, and in the middle you will need to double check a fair share.
Ease of Use
How easily you can understand the controls and reach actionable scholarship information.
A 5 means clear controls and a quick path from the list to a scholarship and its sponsor, including on a phone. A 1 means walls, confusing steps or a broken phone view keep getting in the way, and the middle is workable with some tradeoffs.
Privacy & Marketing
What data it asks for, how much advertising or sign-up pressure gets in the way, and how much control you have.
A 5 means the site asks only for what it needs, says why, keeps ads and partner offers out of the way and leaves you in control. A 1 means heavy data requests, sign-up pressure, loan offers or sweepstakes get in the way, and the middle has some of that pressure but it stays manageable.
Our ratings are our opinion of each site, not an endorsement or a prediction that you'll win.