You’re a counselor and have signed up to use Going Merry to help your students navigate how to pay for college, by applying for government financial aid and private “outside” scholarships. But where do you start? In this guide, we'll go step by step, showing you screenshots of where you can find everything you need. Let’s dive in!

The post Counselor Starter Guide: How to Use Going Merry’s Scholarship Platform appeared first on Going Merry.

In 2019,  NACAC (the National Association of College Admission Counseling) invited us to deliver an online demo of our scholarship platform. So Going Merry co-founder and CEO Charlie Maynard led high school counselors through how the scholarship platform works and how it benefits counselors: “It’s one place where students can come and get matched with hundreds of scholarships, based on their profile eligibility,” Charlie said.

The post Why high school counselors say they love using Going Merry appeared first on Going Merry.

Applying for college is exhausting enough. You don’t need to add “sifting through countless scholarship forms to apply for scholarships” to your long to-do-list. We’re here to show you just how easy it is to use Going Merry to get scholarships for college.

The post How to use Going Merry to find scholarships and apply for them, all on one platform appeared first on Going Merry.

If there’s a Common App to apply to multiple schools at once, why isn’t there a way to apply for multiple scholarships at once? That was my question as I started to search for scholarships for a second time, this time for graduate school. A quick look on the leading scholarship sites suggested there was $24 billion awarded every year. In fact, they even “matched” me with 53 scholarships offering more than $200,000. But all they did was list the scholarships. To actually apply, I had to click 53 links to be redirected to 53 different sites. It made no sense. Going Merry was created to fix this problem.

The post Why We Started the Going Merry Scholarships App: The Origin Story appeared first on Going Merry.

Back when I was a student applying for scholarships using those dreaded scholarship search engines, I noticed that scholarship applications often asked for the same information. So I’d type in my personal information over and over again, and copy and paste the exact same 500-word essay across application platforms. Never again! You might already know that, with Going Merry scholarships, you never have to fill out those scholarship application forms again. But did you know that, in some instances, we’ve even simplified that essay copy & pasting?

The post Scholarship Bundles: Apply for multiple scholarships simultaneously, using just one scholarship app appeared first on Going Merry.