Frequently Asked Questions

VU Scholarships matches students to post-secondary schools through scholarship offers. The scholarship offers are from the schools, not from VU Scholarships. Scholarship offers are based on academics, and your school must partner with VU to be eligible for scholarship offers. If your school has partnered with VU, there is no cost to the student to participate.

Students are eligible if their high school has partnered with VU. We work directly with district-level leaders to bring these scholarships to students. At this time, this is not a program you are able to self-enroll in.

Your school's administration will know if students are eligible to create an account with VU. Please check with your school first, but we can look this up for you as well.

Your high school must partner with VU to register. Our sales and onboarding teams are working hard to get more high schools and post-secondary schools on the platform.

It takes a village, and we could use your help! We find that when students and parents ask their administration to partner with VU, the process moves quicker to get scholarship offers to students. For a sample email you can send to your administrators, check out this template you can copy/paste.

About as easy as it gets. No, seriously. We've fully automated the end-to-end process so there is little administrative effort on the admin team or high school counselors. We set up a meeting. We unwrap it and within 3-4 weeks we can begin to award their students.

We're always adding new colleges, universities, and technical schools to our partner network. Throughout the year as we're adding new partners, your student will automatically be notified if they receive an award from one of our new partners. We continue to do the hard work so they don't have to.

We take your students' information seriously and collect information that is relevant to the college selection/admissions process, no different than other services who aim to help your student. For a full disclosure on what we collect, please review the Data section below and visit our privacy notice.

Reset your password here: https://app.vuscholarships.com/forgot-password. Please make sure to use your school email!

No worries, you can create an account here: https://app.vuscholarships.com/signup. Please make sure to use your school email to sign up!

After registering you will be asked to input your GPA and test scores (if available). Please note, as long as you have a 2.0 GPA or above you will qualify for awards.

Grab a coffee or whatever floats your boat and let's meet over Zoom! Please submit our contact form here and we'll work together to book a time to connect.

And check out our blog to see the impact VU is making at other high schools in the country.

There is no cost to students or parents. However, there is a standard cost and contract applicable to our partner high schools, which we can discuss when we connect.

We are beginning to explore a new partnership with online and homeschool curriculums and would love to bring VU to your program! We typically work with high school district leaders and administrators of that nature.

We are currently not able to partner with independent homeschooled students, but if your student is affiliated with a regional initiative or a homeschool co-op, please reach out here and we'll be in touch!

Let's connect! Please submit the form on our Contact page and we'll route your request appropriately. A 30-minute discovery call initiates the process.

Of course. We want every student to know the vast amount of opportunities that exist for them. For some, it may not be a 2 or 4-year college or university. For some, going to a technical school may be where their passion intersects with their talents! We're all about that.

If your school has partnered with VU, the district will share the qualifications or requirements for students to participate.

Please note, as long as you have a 2.0 GPA or above you will qualify for awards.

Not every student is guaranteed a scholarship. Every post-secondary partner makes scholarship selections based on their own specific parameters.

Your student may receive multiple offers. They need to apply to the school(s) they wish to attend.

Each college will provide detailed instructions in the offer that students will need to take advantage of the scholarship. If your application for admission occurs after the deadline on your scholarship letter(s), the respective college(s) have the discretion to rescind or keep the scholarship offer active.

As long as you fulfill their requirements by their deadline, your student will be eligible to receive the scholarship. Your student must maintain their current academic standing upon which the scholarship was offered.

No, you are not committed to any institution offering you scholarships. You may decide to attend one of the schools offering you a scholarship by completing an admission application.

We anticipate colleges will increase scholarship offers when increases occur in ACT scores and/or the cumulative GPA of students during the school year.

Your student must maintain their current academic standing upon which the scholarship was offered. The respective college(s) have the discretion to rescind or change the scholarship offer.

Yes, you should participate! You may be eligible for scholarships from the institution you plan to attend. You may also receive competing offers from other institutions. This increases your options in deciding where you intend to enroll.

A student may receive as many scholarships as there are VU partners. For example, if there are 30 college partners, a student may earn up to 30 scholarships. We will continue to add college partners throughout the year.

No, you receive scholarships from colleges prior to applying. In fact, the vast majority of scholarships you receive will occur prior to you applying to any of the colleges. For example, you may receive eight scholarships from colleges without applying to any of those schools.

Academic, demographic, and other variables that the student may provide while using the solution.

VU does not provide this data to any third-party marketing agencies. The data may be shared with our post-secondary partners for the purpose of them sharing more about their institution with the student regarding what they have to offer or why they may be a good fit.