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ScholarshipOwl
ScholarshipOwl is a commercial scholarship matching and bulk-apply service for United States students. It reuses your profile answers to help submit many applications and runs its own no-essay drawings. Matching needs an account; paid plans renew automatically after a seven-day free trial, and an upgrade offer appears on every account page.
Best for: Students who want to bulk-apply to the site's own no-essay drawings and will accept a paid membership after the free trial.
Limitation: Public listings are mostly past deadline, funders are not linked, and sign-up requires extensive personal data and enters you into a sweepstakes.
Convenience is not better odds. Prefer reading eligibility yourself for high-value awards. Mobile swipe app is part of the product, not a separate awarding body.
Our rating
1.8out of 5
What our research found
Matching Power (1.5 / 5)
- Public pages group awards by a few majors and types.
- The nursing page leads with awards from other fields.
- Cards show amount and due date, not who qualifies.
Scholarship Quality (1.0 / 5)
- Nearly all public listings were past deadline under pages labeled as current.
- Funders are named but never linked.
- Few cards state an eligibility rule.
Ease of Use (3.5 / 5)
- Category pages list awards with amount and due date.
- No popup covered the screen on a phone.
- Pages fit phone screens without sideways scrolling.
- There are no filters or sorting on category pages.
Privacy & Marketing (1.5 / 5)
- Sign-up requires phone, street address, birthday and citizenship.
- Joining auto-enters you into a sweepstakes drawing.
- The final sign-up step pre-checks every match for one-tap apply.
- There are no email settings or delete-account control.
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 A 1 means most are out of date, incomplete or do not lead to the sponsor, and in the middle you will need to double check a fair share.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.