The Funded Student Tracker
One system for every scholarship, deadline, and essay you’re juggling right now — built from the same spreadsheet chaos you’re trying to escape.
Available now.
Get the Tracker — $9
Compatible with Excel, Google Sheets and any web browser.
Applying to Scholarships Is a Full-Time Research Job Nobody Told You About
Every scholarship search starts the same way: a spreadsheet, a Notes app, a stack of browser tabs you tell yourself you’ll close “later.” Three weeks in, you can’t remember which awards you already applied to, which one wanted a 500-word essay versus a 1,000-word one, or whether you actually sent that recommendation request before things got busy.
The essay isn’t usually what stops people. Losing track of the logistics is.
The Funded Student Tracker replaces the spreadsheet-and-sticky-note system with one place that holds all of it.
Take a Look Inside
Search Log
Every scholarship you’re chasing, logged in one place: organization, award amount, deadline, status, and category. Score each one for Eligibility Fit and Effort Required, both on a 1–5 scale, so you can see at a glance which ones are worth a Tuesday night and which ones are a stretch. A running pipeline count shows exactly how many dollars you’ve applied for, submitted, and won — updated automatically as you go.
Deadlines
A chronological view built from what you’ve already logged, so “due soon” is a fact you can see, not a feeling you’re managing in your head.
Essay Bank
Save every prompt with its word or character limit, theme, and draft status, so you stop rewriting the same “why I want this scholarship” paragraph from memory for the fifth time.
Use It However You Actually Work
The Tracker comes in three formats: Excel, Google Sheets, and a self-contained web version you can open in any browser — no software to buy, no login, nothing to install. Use whichever one you’ll actually still be opening in week three
Built For…
Adult learners and parents applying to more than one or two scholarships at a time
Career changers stacking scholarships, grants, and employer tuition benefits in the same semester
Anyone whose search has already outgrown a single spreadsheet tab or a sticky note on the monitor
If you’re applying to exactly one scholarship this cycle, you probably don’t need a system yet. If you’re applying to five or more, you do.
Quick Answers
What do I need to open this?
Excel or Google Sheets — both free — or just open the web version in any browser. Nothing to install.
Is this a subscription?
No. One payment, yours forever.
I haven’t started applying yet — is this still useful?
Yes. Start logging opportunities the moment you find them, before you’ve written a single essay, so you’re never starting your search from zero.
Who created this?
Built by Kristen Amendola, founder of Get Funded HQ. Read her full story on the About page, here.