As a college student, I know how expensive college is. I also know how hard it is to find scholarships that fit my needs. Christopher Gray saw this problem too as he grew up in a single parent household and had little to no means to go to college.
When Chris was in high school, he sifted through thousands of scholarships, and with a lot of hard work, he won $1.3 million in scholarships. As his own journey was very hard, Chris wanted to make it easier for other students. So Chris founded Scholly. Scholly is an app that helps high school seniors, current undergraduate students, or graduate students find scholarship money. It uses a patented scholarship-matching platform that gives you a targeted list that actually meets your needs and qualifications.
Scholly believes that everyone should be able to afford access to a quality education, regardless of who they are, where they’re from, or what they have. It is only $2.99, so it is cheap and accessible.
After Scholly was featured on Shark Tank, it became the #1 overall app in both the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store for over 3 weeks. In addition, the app has won numerous awards and Chris Gray has also won awards for his company.
Through all this success, Scholly is still dedicated to connecting students to over $50 million in scholarships so they can go to the colleges of their dreams. The company continually tries to improve and strengthen their company so they can go on to help more students reach their full potential.
This is such a useful business! I struggle finding scholarships, so I will be taking a look at this and I’ll probably buy the app. I think this is especially useful for students in a single parent home or who live in poverty, as it’s much harder for them to afford college.
It’s such a simple idea that can be really useful to a large group of people. It’s awesome to see something that is pretty simple be so useful. The app is not really doing anything complicated–it’s just matching information. I didn’t know about this app, I’m going to tell some of my friends about it to help them out! Thanks for sharing!
This app is such an awesome and useful tool for all future college attendees. Finding scholarships is definitely a very annoying and frustrating process. I would definitely pay to have this app for my search for scholarships. I was going to do an idea similar to this for the elevator pitch but, unfortunately, it was taken by Scholly.