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AimScholar
A Dutch Mentor App
Pre-Launch · Pilot

Find the scholarships nobody told you about.

Aim Higher, Apply Smarter.

Upload your academic record and goals. AimScholar matches you to scholarships and fellowships, then tells you exactly what's missing — and how to close the gap before the deadline.

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Match

Your profile vs. thousands of scholarships, fellowships, and grants. Ranked by realistic fit.

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Gap Analysis

See what's blocking better matches. Quick wins, medium lifts, long games — prioritized.

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Roadmap

Concrete next steps with deadlines. Built on 30 years of mentorship — now in your pocket.

For Students AND Adult Learners

High school applicants 16–22 · College students hunting renewables · Adult learners returning for Masters / PhD / Fellowships (Fulbright, Knight-Hennessy, NSF GRFP, Hertz, Marshall, Rhodes).

Sample Student · See It Before You Build It

Meet Emma. See what AimScholar gave her.

Emma is a fictional HS junior — same profile shape you'll fill in on the next tab. Here's the report AimScholar produced for her in under 90 seconds.

Emma Chen · Junior · Bridgewater, NJ

First-generation · Pell-eligible · Asian-American · Computer Science with bio focus · Targets MIT, Stanford, CMU, Caltech, Rutgers Honors

GPA: 3.92 (4.45 weighted) SAT: 1480 APs: 9 Service: 200 hrs Awards: National Merit Commended · NJ Science Fair Regional 1st
Activities: Robotics Captain (8hrs/wk · 3yr) · Code Club Founder (5hrs/wk · 2yr) · Hospital Volunteer (4hrs/wk · 2yr) · Summer Research Intern, Rutgers (40hrs/wk · 1 summer)

Match results — top 6 of 11

Jack Kent Cooke Foundation College Scholarship

Eligible Fit 91
Award: Up to $55,000/yr × 4yrDeadline: Nov 13, 2026
Strong academics + Pell-eligible income band fits Cooke's adjusted-income criteria. First-gen status is a meaningful tier-1 differentiator.

Gates Scholarship

Eligible Fit 89
Award: Full cost of attendanceDeadline: Sep 15, 2026
Asian-American + Pell-eligible + strong leadership profile aligns with Gates values. Senior-year application — start the essay drafts now.

QuestBridge College Match

Eligible Fit 88
Award: Full 4-year scholarship to partner collegeDeadline: Sep 26, 2026
First-gen + low-income + top academic profile fits QuestBridge perfectly. Among MIT/Stanford targets, both are partners.

Coca-Cola Scholars Program

Eligible Fit 87
Award: $20,000Deadline: Oct 31, 2026
Leadership across 3 organizations + community service hours meets Coca-Cola's "leaders who make their communities better" criteria.

National Merit Scholarship

Borderline Fit 76
Award: $2,500–$10,000Deadline: Senior year auto-eligible
Currently Commended — needs Finalist status. Re-take PSAT next October to clear the cutoff.

Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship

Not Yet Eligible Fit 55
Award: $250,000 over 5 years (graduate)Deadline: Oct 2030 (senior year)
Reach award for graduate study — Emma's research trajectory makes this realistic in 4 years. Build research record + publications.

Gap plan — what's blocking the borderline awards

Document leadership outcomes for Robotics Captain role

Impact: Pulls Coca-Cola, Cooke, and Gates from "good narrative" to "winning narrative"
Write down 3 specific outcomes: members grown, events launched, problems solved. Numbers if possible. ("Grew team from 12 to 38" beats "Was Captain.") Use these in your essays.
Target by: Aug 15, 2026

Confirm Pell Grant eligibility on FAFSA

Impact: Required for QuestBridge + Gates + Cooke automatic scoring tiers
Run the FAFSA EFC calculator with parents this month. If Pell-eligible, save the confirmation. Some scholarships gate at this — having proof on hand removes friction.
Target by: Aug 31, 2026

Pursue National Merit Finalist status

Impact: Unlocks $2,500 NMSC + university-specific renewables (worth $20K-$40K)
Re-take PSAT October 2026 with focused prep on your weakest section. Block 6 weeks of 4 hrs/wk from Aug-Oct. Aim for state Commended cutoff +20 pts.
Target by: Oct 15, 2026 (PSAT date)

Get research published or presented

Impact: Major lift toward Hertz, Knight-Hennessy, NSF GRFP, top STEM scholarships
Convert your Rutgers summer research into a poster for an undergrad conference. Reach out to your PI in September about co-authoring something for a regional journal.
Target by: Spring 2027

Continuous monitoring · Auto-notifications

Every week, Emma gets an email like this

AimScholar re-runs Emma's profile against new scholarship listings each week. When a new fit is found — or a deadline approaches — she gets a digest. Set it once, forget about it.

📬 Subject: 3 new AimScholar matches this week — Emma
Hi Emma,

We found 3 new scholarship matches against your profile since last week:

▸ Burger King Scholars Program — $1,000–$50,000 · Deadline Dec 15, 2026 · Eligible · Fit 84
▸ Elks National Foundation Most Valuable Student — $4,000–$50,000 · Deadline Nov 15, 2026 · Eligible · Fit 82
▸ Asian Pacific Fund Scholarship — $2,000–$15,000 · Deadline Apr 1, 2027 · Eligible · Fit 88

Deadline alerts: Coca-Cola Scholars closes in 21 days. Your Common App essay still has 2 line-edits suggested by the Cover Letter coach.

Aim higher, apply smarter.
— AimScholar
A Dutch Mentor App

Your Profile

The more you tell us, the sharper the matches and the better the gap analysis. Everything stays on your device — nothing leaves until you ask Match to run.

Profile completion: 0% — fill in more sections for better matches.

Basics

Academic Record

Your numbers. Honest is better than optimistic — gap analysis works off real data.

Background & Eligibility

Many scholarships exist specifically for students with your background. Skip anything you don't want to share.

Extracurriculars & Leadership

List clubs, sports, jobs, research, leadership roles, internships. One per line.

Awards & Honors

Academic honors, competition wins, scholarships already received, publications, patents.

Goals

Scholarship Match

We rank scholarships and fellowships against your profile. Eligible / Borderline / Not-Yet-Eligible verdicts plus a one-line reason for each.

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No matches yet

Save your profile, then click "Run Match Analysis" above.

Gap Plan

For every scholarship you're "Borderline" or "Not-Yet-Eligible" for: what's missing, how hard it is to fix, and the deadline to fix it by. Prioritized for impact × effort.

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No gap plan yet

Run a Match first, then come back here to see what's blocking your top targets.

CV Review

Paste your CV. Get structured feedback in 4 modes — structure, ATS-readiness, content, and final polish. Built for students AND adult professionals applying for Masters / PhD / fellowships.

Cover Letter Coach

Brainstorm angles. Get line-edits on a draft. Polish before submission. The AI gives line-by-line feedback that an admissions reader would — without writing the letter for you.

Mentor

Stuck? Ask anything — eligibility questions, deadline strategy, "is this scholarship legit," "how should I phrase this." Crisis-aware: certain topics route to support resources, not chat.

Hi. I'm your AimScholar mentor. Ask me anything about scholarships, applications, essays, or your gap plan. Built on 30 years of mentorship — now AI-powered.

Saved

Bookmarked scholarships and your active gap plan. Stays on your device.

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Nothing saved yet

Bookmark scholarships from the Match tab to see them here.

Privacy & Trust

Everything you enter stays on your device by default. We never see your data unless you explicitly run an AI analysis — and even then, only the prompt content goes to the model.

Your data, your control

Remember conversations
Mentor chat sees the last 6 messages for context. Off = fresh start every message.
Crisis-aware mode
Detects distress signals in chat. Always on for mentor responses.

What gets sent to the AI

When you click Run Match, Build Gap Plan, Review CV, or Get Feedback, we send the relevant fields of your profile + that section's content to Anthropic's Claude API via our secure proxy. We don't store the request. Conversations in the Mentor tab include the last 6 messages if memory is on.

For full Privacy Policy and Terms, see thedutchmentor.com/privacy.

📬 Continuous Monitoring & Auto-Notifications

AimScholar re-runs your profile against new scholarship listings each week. When a new fit is found — or a deadline approaches — we email you a digest. Opt in here.

New matching scholarship found
Email me when a new scholarship that fits my profile is added to AimScholar's database.
Deadline approaching
21-day, 7-day, and 24-hour reminders for any scholarship in my Saved list.
Gap plan updates
Notify me when my gap plan gets new recommended actions or my completed actions unlock new scholarships.
Weekly mentor tip
A short tip from Walter's mentorship library, every Monday.

During the pre-launch pilot (free), digests are curated weekly by Walter himself. Once we're at scale, the system runs automatically. You can change frequency or unsubscribe anytime.

Get help

Found a bug? Have a feature request? Email info@thedutchmentor.com — we read every message.