SCHOLARSHIPDEADLINES
Fund your future — scholarship guides, application tips, and the tools every student needs.
From calculating your GPA and costing out a degree to keeping your essay under the limit, sizing up your financial need, mapping your deadlines, and building your checklist, ScholarshipDeadlines pairs free hands-on student calculators with practical guides and a richly illustrated museum. Apply smarter, fund your future.
Scholarship & Student Tools
Free tools for every applicant — GPA calculator, college cost calculator, essay word counter, financial need calculator, application timeline planner, and application checklist generator.
GPA Calculator
Enter each course's letter grade and credit hours to get your credit-weighted GPA on the 4.0 scale, plus total quality points and credits — see whether you clear a scholarship's cutoff
College Cost Calculator
Add up tuition, fees, room and board, and books per year, project it across your years to graduation, and subtract aid to see the gross and net out-of-pocket cost of a degree
Essay Word Counter
Paste your scholarship or admissions essay for live counts of words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs, plus reading time — so you can trim to fit a strict word limit
Financial Need Calculator
Subtract your Expected Family Contribution from a school's cost of attendance, then take away other aid, to estimate your demonstrated need and the remaining gap to fund
Application Timeline Planner
Enter your deadline and get a dated plan — when to request recommendation letters, draft and finalize your essay, gather transcripts, complete the form, and submit
Application Checklist Generator
Choose your application type and requirements for a tailored to-do list — eligibility, transcripts, test scores, and deadlines, plus essay, recommendation, and aid add-ons
Universities & Scholarship Museum
Wander an immersive museum of the institutions and ideas that shape how we learn and pay for it — historic universities and centers of learning alongside the landmark scholarships, fellowships, and financial-aid milestones, the great figures of education, and the examinations and credentials that open doors, each in its own gallery, so you can get to know the stories behind higher education: how each one came to be, what makes it matter, and the role it plays in shaping how students fund their futures.
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Practical know-how on finding, applying for, and winning scholarships, plain-language explainers on GPA, cost of attendance, financial need, and the FAFSA, and seasoned tips for first-time applicants and seasoned scholars alike — everything you need to dig deeper and fund your future.
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