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Students: How to View and Save Local Scholarships

Local scholarships are scholarships added to Navigator by your school, district, state, or local organizations. Because they are offered close to home, you may have a better chance of receiving them. You can search and save local scholarships in Navigator, apply on the sponsor's website, and track your progress all in one place.
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How to Search for Local Scholarships

  1. Log in to Navigator

  2. On the left-hand menu, select Plan for Education

  3. In the dropdown, select Search for Scholarships and Grants

  4. The Local tab opens by default. (Select National to see national scholarships.)

  5. Type in the Scholarship or sponsor name box to search

  6. Under Who it's for, choose All local, Just my school, My whole district, or My whole state

  7. Select Filter to narrow your results (for example, grade level, GPA, or type of college). Your filters are saved for the next time you visit. Select the x on a filter to remove it.

Search for Scholarships and Grants with the Local tab, Who it's for options, and saved filters
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Tip: The more filter questions you answer, the more personalized your matches will be. Each scholarship shows whether you are potentially eligible.
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How to View Scholarship Details and Apply

  1. Select the name of a scholarship to view its details, including award amount, application deadline, eligibility, and description

  2. Select the star icon to save the scholarship to your favorites

  3. Select Apply on sponsor's site to open the sponsor's application. Applications are completed on the sponsor's website, not in Navigator.


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How to Track Your Scholarship Applications

  1. From Search for Scholarships and Grants, select My Scholarship Applications

  2. Select Add An Application to add a scholarship you are working on

  3. Drag a scholarship card to another column to update its status: Started, Applied, or Final status

  4. Your saved scholarships are listed under Favorited scholarships. Favoriting a scholarship does not add it to your applications; add it when you start an application.

My Scholarship Applications showing the Started, Applied, and Final status columns
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4. When you move a scholarship to Final status, choose what happened: I was awarded the scholarship, I declined the scholarship, or I wasn't selected

5. Select Save
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How to Log an Award from Outside Navigator

If you received a scholarship that is not listed in Navigator, you can still record it.

  1. On My Scholarship Applications, select Log an award from outside Navigator

  2. Enter the Scholarship Name and Amount awarded (self-reported) (required)

  3. Optionally, add the Application Deadline, Website, Status, and Description

  4. Select Save. The award appears in your Final status column as self-reported.


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