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Goals of Scholar Snapp:
• Provide students with better access to scholarships by streamlining the application process
• Let students reuse their information to automatically complete scholarship applications
• Permit sharing of scholarship applications between scholarship organizations
• Support a robust scholarship software environment through better interoperability
• Provide an image/branding that is comfortable and inviting to the college bound demographic
– (Scholar Snapp was previously known as the Scholarship Data Standard)
What is Scholar Snapp?
• A way to let scholars apply for multiple scholarships more easily by reusing information they have already provided elsewhere
• A royalty-free blueprint for sending scholarship applications between organizations
• An XML schema used by computers to automatically process applicant information
• A capability that can be added to an existing online application to make it better for scholars
• A way to avoid a universal scholarship application
Why do we need Scholar Snapp?• Applicants spend incredible time and energy filling
out mostly redundant scholarship applications• Students cannot share data they have already
provided to other organizations without manual data re-entry
• Scholarship providers cannot start over to redesign all applications; we need a bridge between existing systems
• Automatic document processing requires a well-defined data format
• We have gone as far as we can without a data standard
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Nov-07 Dec-08
Jan-08 Apr-08 Jul-08 Oct-08
Nov-07
Standard Envisioned
Apr-08
Grant Approvedfor NSPA workgroup
Apr-08
Workgroup Meeting(Austin, TX)
Aug-08
Workgroup Meeting(Estes Park, CO)
Aug-08
Draft standardreleased
Oct-08
Standard declaredFINAL and released
Nov-08
Standard implementedwith Dell Scholarship
Application launch
Oct-08
Standard Adopted By FastWeb
Scholar Snapp TimelineDeveloped with a grant from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation , the NSPA
workgroup created Scholar Snapp with the help of the following organizations:
Nov 2007
Dec2008
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Student savesthe application
to personal computer
Student uploads the application
to many scholarship Web
sites
Student creates a scholarship applicationon the Web
Scholar Snapp lets students re-use their scholarship applications on other websites to find money for college more quickly and easily
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How does Scholar Snapp work?
What information is transmitted?• Imagine packaging a scholar’s application
answers, sending them elsewhere, and automatically completing another application with that information
• The package contains those answers, for example:Package
First Name
ExtracurricularActivities
Address
Last Name
GPA Class Rank
Where is Scholar Snapp currently used?
• Already, Dell Scholars applicants can save their application to an SDS file and then upload it to other Web sites, such as the following partners:
• 3000 applicants took advantage of Scholar Snapp last year. Now OSAC eApp filers can use this tool for 2010!
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Are we paving new ground?
• In the scholarship world, yes!• Other industries had to drive the creation of
standards for themselves for the same reasons:
– Education – PESC created data format standards for sharing school transcripts
– Medical – HL7 is a standard data format for sharing patient records between doctors and insurance companies
– Justice – GJXDM is a standard data format for sharing documents between justice and public safety organizations
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Application Data Sharing ScenariosNew developments become possible with Scholar
Snapp:
– Students reusing their applications data across multiple scholarship sites
– One-click application for many scholarships, using the OSAC eApp to apply for national scholarships
– Scholarships referring candidates to each other
– Easier upgrade from paper applications10
One-Click Application Expands Reach• Student creates a profile on the scholarship
provider website or on a scholarship search and match site such as Fastweb or Scholarships.com
• Site matches one or more scholarships to the profile
• Student can one-click apply to one or more matches
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MatchedScholarships
Fastweb or Community Foundation
Scholar SDS File
Scholar Snapp on OSAC’s eApp
Students Download and Decide Where to Apply
Reminders and User-friendly Instructions
Showing What’s Been Saved
Reviewing What Applications are in the Works at OSAC
Student Referral• Student applies but isn’t eligible for a scholarship• The scholarship program forwards the application
to other scholarships, with student permission• Standard contains a
“PermitApplicationForwarding” field for this purpose
Origin Scholarship
Web Site
Scholar SDS File
Referral Scholarship
Web Site
Conclusion• Scholar Snapp can expand students’
application “reach” effortlessly, helping students get more dollars!
• This will help scholarship providers focus our energy on truly impactful work:
> Selection > Retention
> Graduation!
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