With a College Board account, Scholar Snapp makes it possible for you to reuse your information – everything from contact details to teacher recommendations, essays, and more – from one scholarship application to another.  Connect with more scholarship opportunities by saving all your hard work and completing applications in a fraction of the time!

Scholar Snapp and the College Board are partnering to improve the scholarship application experience, making it faster and easier for students to connect to scholarships that will help them pursue a college degree. The College Board helps more than seven million students prepare for college each year through programs and services including the SAT and the Advanced Placement program.

For students with a College Board account, this service makes it easy to populate applications to select scholarship providers with their information on file – so you can apply in a fraction of the time. Whether applying through the College Board scholarship listing, or directly through a participating scholarship provider’s website, you can reuse your information from one application to another by logging into your College Board Scholarship Search profile.

You may have an existing College Board account through programs and services such as SAT, Advanced Placement, or BigFuture. If you don’t have an existing account, sign up for free at collegeboard.org.

The College Board is committed to protecting student data privacy and is an active signatory of the Student Data Privacy Pledge. The organization follows a set of privacy principles that govern how data is utilized to create opportunities for students. That data is an integral part of how the College Board works with members to help students access and succeed in college. Learn more about the organization’s privacy policy at about.collegeboard.org/privacy-center.

With a College Board account, Scholar Snapp makes it faster and easier for students to connect to scholarships that will help them pursue a college degree. The first step is for students to create a College Board Scholarship Search profile including standard information requested by college admissions and scholarship applications. Then the Scholar Snapp data standard makes it possible for them to “auto-fill” applications using this information, rather than re-entering the same information over and over again.

No. Integration with Scholar Snapp does not automatically send new applications to your system. The system exchanges data only after the student has logged in to an online application, which is typically after an eligibility screen. Scholar Snapp does not change your application process, and you can determine where you want to offer the data import and export for your students that best fits your program.

Generally speaking, no. If your technical team has done other integration projects, the work will feel familiar. Easy integration is one of the benefits of Scholar Snapp with adoption averaging days or weeks, not months. Details can be found online in our technical documentation site.

Scholar Snapp doesn’t change your software. Scholar Snapp moves data regardless of the type of software or platform you use. Whether you have an internal or external tech team, the technology team will work with your developer resources to create an integration plan that is both cost and time efficient.

Yes. Scholar Snapp provides a simple, secure API that’s vendor neutral and platform independent. And the API provides application data in a flexible, well-defined, standardized format. This means that practically any system can be connected. Scholar Snapp provides documentation, support, and a test environment so your in-house technology team or system integrator will have everything they need. A technical overview of Scholar Snapp can be found here.

Some products have Scholar Snapp support baked in. Check with your software application vendor or view the list of products with native Scholar Snapp integration here. We’d encourage you to inquire even if your product is not on the list. The more the vendor community hears from its customers about the value of Scholar Snapp integration, the more time savings you can pass along to your applicants.

Some vendors may be worried that integration will be costly. Dedicated technical resources will work with your vendor to develop a detailed technical plan to ensure the integration is as quick and efficient as possible. It’s also important to remember that integration can be a competitive advantage for your vendor.

With a College Board account, Scholar Snapp makes it faster and easier for students to connect to scholarships that will help them pursue a college degree. The first step is for students to create a College Board Scholarship Search profile including standard information requested by college admissions and scholarship applications. Then the Scholar Snapp data standard makes it possible for them to “auto-fill” applications using this information, rather than re-entering the same information over and over again.

The Scholar Snapp data standard was originally created to help students reuse their data between scholarship applications. The Common Application was one of our earliest partners, making it possible for students to capture all the hard work they put into their admissions application and reuse that information for scholarship opportunities. Building on this technical foundation, we have broadened our focus to include college admissions data. That way, students can spend more time telling you what really sets them apart — rather than putting hours into data entry.

The Common Application is a member organization of more than 800 colleges and universities, committed to the pursuit of access, equity, and integrity in the college admissions process. For students who complete a Common App application, integration with the Scholar Snapp data standard makes it possible for them to capture all their information in a College Board Scholarship Search profile, which can then be used for other Scholar Snapp enabled applications. Higher education and scholarship opportunities are just a few clicks away!

Generally speaking, no. The Snapp Central API is platform independent and is built on standard technology. If your technical team has done other integration projects, the work will feel familiar. Easy integration is one of the benefits of Scholar Snapp with adoption averaging days or weeks, not months. Details can be found online in our technical documentation site.

Scholar Snapp doesn’t change your software. Scholar Snapp moves data regardless of the type of software or platform you use. Whether you have an internal or external tech team, will work with your developer resources to create an integration plan that is both cost and time efficient.

Yes. Scholar Snapp Central provides a simple, secure API that’s vendor neutral and platform independent. And we provide application data in a flexible, well-defined, standardized format. This means that practically any system can be connected. Scholar Snapp provides documentation, support, and a test environment so your in-house technology team or system integrator will have everything they need. A technical overview of Scholar Snapp can be found here.

With a College Board account, Scholar Snapp makes it faster and easier for students to connect to scholarships that will help them pursue a college degree. The first step is for students to create a College Board Scholarship Search profile including standard information requested by college admissions and scholarship applications. Then the Scholar Snapp data standard makes it possible for them to “auto-fill” applications using this information, rather than re-entering the same information over and over again.

Technically speaking, the Scholar Snapp Profile Data Standard is an XSD specification that defines a single scholarship application for a single student. The Scholar Snapp profile contains core information about the student such as their name, contact information, academic history, application essays, file attachments, and so forth. The Snapp profile also contains a few context fields, such as when the file was created and the name of the system that originated the file.

To enable applicants to reuse their scholarship application data securely, Scholar Snapp Central is a data hub with an OAuth 2-based API. This API allows applicants to authorize the exchange of their Scholar Snapp profile data from within any online application form.

Like most modern APIs, Snapp Central is RESTful, and uses JSON to structure control information. The JSON acts as a “wrapper” for the Snapp Profile XML payload. The Snapp Central API generally maintains backward compatibility with previous versions of the Snapp Data Standard for at least a complete cycle.

Easy integration is one of the benefits of Scholar Snapp with adoption averaging days or weeks, not months. We can even do the data mapping between your system and the Scholar Snapp profile. Complete integration details can be found online in our technical documentation site. The documentation can answer questions, and even has sample code and examples to help shorten developer time.

Generally speaking, no. Dedicated technical resources will work with vendors to develop technical plans, provide API walkthroughs, and answer questions. The technical team’s goal is to ensure the integration is as quick and efficient as possible. Integration can also serve as a competitive advantage.