Include the ability to create a pick list of pre-populated categories so students can pick multiple categories and applications can be sorted on their selections.

80-90% of our scholarships have special criteria questions, which means we have to use Apply To for most of our scholarships.

Using Apply To for 80-90% of scholarships creates a huge burden on our students, reviewers, and administrators:

  1. Our students apply using the general application and very few awards are made via Auto-Match

  2. Our students need to search for and apply to each opportunity to answer each one's special question. This results in decreased applications and fewer awards to be given out.

  3. Our reviewers are left with tons of general applications for which there are very few awards

  4. Our reviewers of Apply To have very few applicants and many donor-funded awards are not given out

We are able to generalize most of our special questions into a single question: "in which communities are you involved and in what ways do you support those communities?"

  • Native American community

  • Disabled community

  • Women/female advancement

  • etc.

If we had a pick list like the one above, the student would be able to select multiple categories and these categories could be used to sort general applications into special donor-specified scholarships.

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  • Apr 22 2020
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Client Name "shard name" csupomona
User IT Admin, Opportunity Admin, Support Admin, Applicant, Reviewer, Reviewer Chair , Donor Admin
Functional Unit Automatch, Apply-to , Qualifications, Assigning Reviews, General Application , Conditional Application , Users, Donors, Reviews, Awards, Flexible Application
Employee Name Natalie Graff
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    Carrie Goldberger commented
    May 14, 2020 22:33

    Hi Natalie,

    The system allows you to choose from a several different question types when creating a new question. You can create a list and use a question type that forces the applicant to pick just one, or you can set up a question allowing them to choose multiple from a list.

    I'm going to move this ticket to "already exists", but please let me know if I'm misunderstanding your request.

    Best,

    -Carrie

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