Scholarshipsearch

What Scholarshipsearch is for

A strategy and methodology guide for searching for scholarships effectively, planning realistic application effort, and avoiding scams — not a list of scholarships.

Scholarshipsearch is not a live scholarship database or search engine. It does not know about, list, or search any specific, real, currently-open scholarship, and it cannot tell you which awards you personally qualify for today. For that, use your school counselor, your college's financial-aid office, and reputable free search tools (Fastweb, Scholarships.com, BigFuture). What Scholarshipsearch does provide is genuinely useful strategy: where the highest-odds places to look actually are, how to plan your limited application time, what essay prompts tend to repeat across applications, and how to recognize a scam before you waste time or money on one.

What it does

strategy_framework lays out where to actually look for scholarships — your school counselor's office, local and community organizations, employer or parent-employer programs, major- or background-specific awards, national search databases, and the financial-aid package from the college itself — each with a realistic competitiveness level, typical award size, and why it matters, plus an overall recommendation to weight your time toward the lower-competition, more-specific tiers rather than only the big national databases everyone else is also searching.

application_capacity_calculator takes the hours per week you can realistically spend and the number of weeks you have, plus an effort level (light, standard, or heavy — or your own custom hours-per-application estimate), and computes a real, arithmetic estimate of how many applications you can realistically complete, with a side-by-side breakdown across all three effort tiers so you can see the tradeoff between doing a few essay-heavy applications versus many quick ones.

essay_prompt_types is a hand-curated reference of the handful of underlying scholarship-essay prompt categories that keep recurring — financial need, career goals, overcoming a challenge, community impact, leadership, diversity/perspective, field-of-study interest, and role-model influence — each with a tip, so you can draft reusable material in advance instead of starting from scratch for every application.

scam_red_flags is an important, hand-curated checklist of scholarship-scam warning signs: being asked to pay to apply, being told you won something you never entered, guaranteed-win language, requests for bank or Social Security information, manufactured urgency, and more — each with what to do about it, plus where to report a suspected scam.

What it is not

Not a scholarship database, search engine, or matching service — it never returns an actual, real, currently- open scholarship, an eligibility match, or a deadline for any specific award. Not a substitute for your school counselor or college financial-aid office, who have access to real, current local and institutional opportunities this tool cannot see. Not a guarantee of any award or of matching every scam.

Scholarshipsearch — Privacy Policy

Effective 28 September 2026. Unify Dynamics LLC ("we", "us"), Menlo Park, California.

What Scholarshipsearch is. Scholarshipsearch is a connector (an MCP server and REST API) that AI assistants and personal agents call on your behalf for a fully local scholarship-search strategy guide: where to look, an application-effort calculator, common essay-prompt types, and a scholarship-scam red-flags checklist. Scholarshipsearch is not a live scholarship database or search engine — it does not look up, store, or transmit information about any real, specific scholarship. You interact with your assistant; the assistant sends us only the arguments needed for that one tool call.

What we receive. The arguments of each tool call (which, for the effort calculator, are just numbers of hours and weeks — no personal or identifying information is required by any tool), the technical headers needed to serve the request (an IP address or a client identifier supplied by the assistant, and a Pro API key if you have one), and standard server logs.

We do not store, log, or retain the content of your tool calls. Every tool computes its answer from the arguments you send, in memory, for that one request, and returns a result — nothing is written to a database, written to a request log, cached, or used to train anything. Request bodies are not logged.

What we do not receive or store. We do not receive your conversation with the assistant or your name, and we do not build a profile from your queries: each request is answered independently and nothing carries over between requests. Rate-limit counters (a client identifier and timestamps, never the request content) are held in memory for at most 24 hours. Hosting-provider access logs, which contain IP addresses and request paths but not request bodies, are retained for up to 30 days for security and abuse prevention.

Sub-processors. None — there is no upstream call at all; every tool computes its answer locally or reads from a reference table bundled with the server. Hosting: Vercel (United States regions).

Legal bases and your rights. Our processing is necessary to provide the service you request through your assistant. Because we store no personal data beyond short-lived, content-free logs, requests to access, correct or delete personal data are usually satisfied automatically; you can still contact agent@connectorbay.com and we will respond within 30 days. We do not sell or share personal information and do not use your data to train models.

Children. Scholarshipsearch covers a topic commonly relevant to minors, but the Service itself takes no age, name, or identifying information of any kind and is operated by the adult or student using the assistant — no account or profile is created.

Changes. We will post changes here with a new effective date.

Scholarshipsearch — Terms of Service

Effective 28 September 2026. These terms govern use of the Scholarshipsearch connector ("the Service") operated by Unify Dynamics LLC ("we", "us").

1. The Service. Scholarshipsearch is a fully local scholarship-search STRATEGY and methodology guide: a strategy framework for where to look, an application-capacity calculator, a common essay-prompt-types reference, and a scholarship-scam red-flags checklist. It is accessed through an AI assistant or directly over MCP or HTTP.
2. Not a scholarship database or search engine. Scholarshipsearch does NOT list, search, index, or have any knowledge of any specific, real, currently-open scholarship, and it does not match you to any actual award. Any resemblance between an example in this Service's output and a real scholarship program is coincidental. For real, current scholarship opportunities, consult your school counselor, your college's financial-aid office, or a reputable dedicated scholarship-search service.
3. General guidance, not a guarantee. The strategy framework, capacity calculator, and essay-prompt reference are general planning aids. They do not guarantee you will find, qualify for, or win any scholarship, or that you have correctly estimated your own available time.
4. Scam-detection checklist is not exhaustive. The scam_red_flags checklist describes common warning signs, but scammers adapt — the absence of a listed red flag does not mean an offer is legitimate. When in doubt, verify independently before providing any information or payment.
5. Your content. You are responsible for verifying any award, organization, or opportunity independently before acting on it, and for never paying money in connection with a scholarship application.
6. Acceptable use. Automated use within the published rate limits is welcome.
7. Availability. The Service is provided "as is" without warranty. We may change, limit or discontinue it at any time.
8. Data. Our Privacy Policy describes what we process. In short: tool-call arguments are used in memory for that one request and never stored or logged.
9. Pro keys. Optional Pro API keys are issued at our discretion, are personal to the holder and may be revoked for abuse.
10. Liability. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Unify Dynamics LLC is not liable for any loss arising from use of or reliance on the Service, including any scholarship, financial, or scam-related outcome. Our total liability is limited to US $100.
11. Governing law. California law; venue in San Mateo County, California.
12. Contact. Unify Dynamics LLC · agent@connectorbay.com · https://connectorbay.com/scholarshipsearch

Scholarshipsearch support

Email agent@connectorbay.com. We answer within two business days.

• MCP endpoint: https://scholarshipsearch.connectorbay.com/mcp
• REST API: https://scholarshipsearch.connectorbay.com/openapi.json
• Live status: https://scholarshipsearch.connectorbay.com/health

When you report a problem, include the question you asked your agent, roughly when, and which agent you used (for example Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini). Never send us passwords, account numbers or ID numbers. Scholarshipsearch never asks for them.