Who checks these pages
Writes the pipeline, reads every scholarship page before it publishes, and answers the support address himself.
GoBursar is built and run by D. Developments, a one-person operation in North Carolina. There is no content team. Every scholarship page on this site was generated by the same pipeline students use, and then read by a human before it was published.
How a page here gets made
A scholarship goes in as a link or as pasted text. The pipeline pulls the sponsor's own pages, extracts the award, deadline, eligibility, and essay prompts, and then writes a brief where every claim has to carry a source URL. A validation pass runs in code afterwards and drops any claim whose sources are not in the set actually retrieved.
Claims on public scholarship pages have to come from the sponsor's own domain. That rule exists because of a specific failure: an early page cited a personal blog that asserted scoring weights the foundation deliberately does not publish. The blog was confident, wrong, and would have sent students chasing a rubric that does not exist.
The rule that came after it is stricter, and it is the reason winner patterns no longer appear on public pages at all. Citation validation proves a URL was among the pages researched. It does not prove that page says the thing. Three generated pages in a row produced winner claims whose own cited sources, when opened, contained no winner analysis of any kind. Rather than print a plausible guess about a real organization, those pages now state the gap as an unknown.
What we refuse to do
Scholarship decisions are made by committees, using information we cannot see. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you a feeling.
Guidance works on your own draft, in your own words. If you ask for a starting draft, it is built only from what you told us about yourself and it is a rough starting point to rewrite, never a finished essay to hand in. Some sponsors ban AI writing outright, and when we detect that we quote their rule and lock the drafting tool.
Search is already well covered by sites that make money when your match list is long. Because we have no list to pad, we can afford to tell you a scholarship is not worth your weekend.
When research cannot verify something, the brief says so under its own heading. On the Gates brief, that heading says the sponsor publishes nothing about past winners, because it does not.
Tell us when we are wrong
Scholarship details move every cycle and sponsors sometimes close early. If a deadline, an award amount, or an eligibility rule on this site does not match what the sponsor currently says, email support@gobursar.com and it gets fixed. Corrections are the cheapest thing we do.
The full Gates brief is public and needs no account, including its unknowns section. It is the fastest way to judge the method before you give us anything.