Applicant portal

After logging in, most applicants will arrive at and fill out your General Application. Applicants don't have to complete the General Application immediately, but they should do so before submitting applications to other awards.

If your system uses a user import, applicants can view their imported information by looking at the left side of the page and selecting Applicant Record.

Note: If your system uses Create Users Upon Import (CUUI), applicants will skip the General Application and go directly to the Applications page (if they have pending award offers or required post-acceptance applications).

Based on their answers to the General Application, some applicants may move to a conditional application (i.e., supplemental).

Usually, conditional applications include questions for applicants related to a particular college or department.

Based on previous answers, applicants will mostly likely see several recommended opportunities:

• To learn more about the opportunity, select its name

• To apply for the opportunity (and most likely fill out a few questions), select Apply

Using the Applications page, applicants can monitor the status and progress of their various applications in the system, including:

• Progress Indicators: Provides a high-level overview of completed tasks and remaining progress (e.g., Recommended Opportunities Submitted, Reference Letters Submitted)

• Needs Attention: Highlights needed actions (e.g., award acceptance, post-acceptance applications)

• General Applications: Tracks progress on General and Conditional Applications

• Current: Tracks progress on recommended opportunities and other tasks

• Archived: Shows a record of past awards, commonly used for resumes or graduate school applications

Using the Opportunities page, applicants can locate recommended opportunities as well as browse other system opportunities.

To search through opportunities:

1. At the top right of their screen, select Show Filters.

2. Adjust search criteria:

   • Search By Keyword: Enter key words or phrases to search through opportunity names and descriptions

   • Scopes (if configured): Select one or more scopes to include their associated opportunities. For more information, see Scopes.

   • Questions (if configured): Answer one or more questions to show opportunities relevant to your situation

3. Select Filter Opportunities.

Review the opportunity results and—if necessary—refine your search criteria.

Tip: For more details on making opportunities findable, see Improve applicant search.

Using the Donorspage, applicants can see donor information made public by system admins.

To learn more about creating donor pages, see Set up donor profiles.

Note: Applicants can also view a link to an associated donor when reading about an opportunity.

Using the References page, applicants can:

• Monitor the status of a requested reference

• Resend a request to a reference

Note: The References page only displays references requested through this page or a question on the General Application or apply-to opportunity.