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Solution Overview

Solution Name

ScholaScope

One-line solution summary.

ScholaScope is a social media platform that is geared to students and universities. Our purpose is to unify admissions applications and help students apply to opportunities with one click.

Elevator pitch

What is your solution?

ScholaScope is an online education admissions service via the website (www.scholascope.com) launched in August 2021, the platform’s purpose is to unify higher educational institutes’ applications and to help students match with their most suitable program and apply easily to that program with one click. Our vision is to become the (Linkedin) of education admissions.

This platform is going to have:

One last application created by the student and saved as their profile, and having all their documents attached (Passport, Transcripts, degrees... ETC).
One profile to each university or college that can be verified and post opportunities with information for students (Tuition fees, entry requirements, scholarships... ETC).
Direct communication between universities and students.
Universities can post and advertise their opportunities on the platform.
AI matching system, that helps suitable students, and universities find each other based on (Budget declared by students, countries of interest... ETC).
Filteration system for universities, a database within the University's profile, and access to all students interested in their countries.

What specific problem are you trying to solve?

The problem we are trying to tackle is that finding and applying to universities nowadays is a hectic process,

Every time, a student would have to do tons of research, create a profile put all of their information, write their statement of purpose and motivation letters, then find the right course and check the entry requirements. Each application could take up to 8 hours of work which leaves the students devastated.

It is so devastating to apply which led around 80% of students in Jordan to give up on their application and turn to 3rd parties to apply on their behalf. This has created an agent monopoly that controls the admissions of each university, and it's super expensive for both students and universities.

On the other end, the applications usually take between two weeks and two months to be processed by the university, and if the application was done by an agent, the university pays up to 12% of the tuition fees back to the agents, on top of all that, universities receive thousands of underqualified applicants which consume their admissions office time.

The university's admissions systems algorithms have been there since the 11th century, and they receive minor updates every now and then. It is about time to revolutionize the system and democratize education.

Who does your solution serve? In what ways will the solution impact their lives?

ScholaScope is targeting international students who are seeking to study out of their countries from one end, undergraduates, and postgraduates. All genders, aged between 17-30+

And from another end, We are targeting International Universities and colleges that are constantly recruiting international students.

What steps have you taken to understand the needs of the population you want to serve?

I am myself was suffering from the same problems, until I worked with the University of East Anglia, and realized the amount of money spent in the wrong channels to recruit new students. However, I have seen many students who are trying to apply and failing many times because of the lack of understanding of the entry requirements.

When I started ScholaScope, a simple $10 ad on Facebook was enough to fill my database with over 800+ students, which drove me crazy and I knew that I needed to automate the process.

ScholaScope has helped over 25 candidates get into the right university, and or college, and we have an acceptance rate of 100% so far.

Which aspects of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Improving learning opportunities and outcomes for learners across their lifetimes, from early childhood on (Learning)

Our solution's stage of development:

Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution—in other words, what have you accomplished to date?

ScholaScope has just launched its MVP and working on signing 300 MOUs with different universities and colleges, and we also are inviting 1000+ students to our database to create their profiles on the MVP.

Because we just launched on, 15th of Nov. 2021, we are still testing and debugging, and we have about 10 organic users already.

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Amman, Jordan

Team Lead:

Majd Khodari