Meritaria

PLANNING GUIDES

Practical help for your scholarship program.

Use these guides to plan a season, prepare your committee, or evaluate a scholarship platform. Each guide covers a different decision your team needs to make.
Season planning

Plan your scholarship season.

Set dates, responsibilities, and checkpoints so the team knows what must happen before the next stage begins.

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Application design

Build an application students can understand.

Decide what information is essential, how to ask for it, and what students need to know before starting.

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Committee review

Run a consistent scholarship review.

Agree on evidence, calibrate the rubric, and document decisions so reviewers apply the same expectations.

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Platform evaluation

Choose the right scholarship platform for your program.

Evaluate a platform with your own requirements and a small pilot, rather than relying on an advertised feature count.

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