FAQ

Scholar is a profile platform built for serious students. It gives you a single place to record your education, qualifications, achievements, and ambitions, and to connect with peers who take their work as seriously as you do. Think of it as the professional record of your student years.

Scholar is for students aged 14 and over who are in secondary school, sixth form, college, or university, or who have recently graduated. You sign up with your real name and create a profile that reflects your real academic journey. Accounts that misrepresent identity, school, or qualifications may be removed.

Yes, provided you have the consent of a parent or legal guardian before signing up. By creating an account you confirm either that you meet the minimum age (14) or that a parent or guardian has consented on your behalf. We do not knowingly accept accounts from anyone under 14, and we will remove any such account we become aware of.

Not yet. Scholar is currently available to users based in the United Kingdom only. We may expand to other regions in future.

Yes. Creating a profile, building your record, connecting with other students, and messaging your connections are all free. We may introduce optional features in the future, but the core experience will remain free for students.

No. You may only hold one account on Scholar. Creating duplicate accounts is not permitted and may result in removal.

Your profile can include your name, profile photo, cover photo, location, current institution, education history, qualifications and grades, achievements and extracurriculars, work experience, university applications, hobbies, and a short bio. You decide what to include — only the basics are required to get started.

No. All academic information on Scholar is self-reported. We do not independently verify grades, exam results, qualifications, or other achievements students add to their profiles. When you view a profile, treat the information as a personal record rather than a formally verified credential.

Yes. Adding qualifications is entirely optional, and you can include the subject without a grade if you prefer. You can also remove or edit any qualification at any time from the Edit Profile page. In addition, the Settings page has a Hide grades toggle that keeps your grades visible only to your connections, and a separate Hide university offers toggle that does the same for your university applications.

You are in control of your visibility from the Settings page. You can set your profile visibility to Public (any signed-in Scholar user can find and view it), Connections only (only students you are connected with can see your full profile), or Private (hidden from search, viewable only by people you invite via your shareable link).

You can also choose who is allowed to send you connection requests and who can message you, hide your grades and university offers from non-connections, and control whether your profile appears in search. Blocking a student also prevents them from seeing your profile or contacting you.

Open another student's profile and use the Connect button to send a request. Once they accept, you become connections and can message each other. You can manage incoming and outgoing requests from the Connections page.

Scholar is currently a student-to-student platform. We do not offer dedicated accounts for universities or employers. Depending on your visibility setting, your profile can be seen by any signed-in Scholar user, by your connections only, or kept private — and you have a shareable profile link you can give to anyone you choose, which is viewable by anyone you send it to. Anonymous visitors who are not signed in cannot access profile data.

Use the search bar at the top of any page to look up students by name, school, or university. Results will show matching profiles you can open directly.

There are four kinds of posts you can create from the feed. Achievement updates are short notes about a result, offer, or milestone. Challenges are academic prompts with a correct answer that other students can attempt, with answers marked right or wrong automatically. Book recommendations let you share a title, author, and why you recommend it. Find Study Partners posts let you describe what you are working on and invite connections to study with you, which sets up a Study Room for the group. Other students can like and comment on your posts, so together they build a record of how you engage with your studies.

Study Rooms are private collaborative spaces for you and your connections to work together. Each room has a group chat (with reactions and pinned messages), shared notes, a list of shared resources and links, and a collaborative canvas for drawing, sticky notes, and formulas. Members can also set a status — Active, Revision, or Break — so everyone can see who is working.

You can create a Study Room two ways: by making a Find Study Partners post on the feed, or with the + New Room button on the Study Rooms page, then inviting your connections. Invited connections receive a notification and can accept or decline. Only accepted members can see a room's chat, notes, resources, and canvas — rooms are never public. The room creator can add or remove members and delete the room, and any member can leave.

From your own profile, click the Edit Profile button at the top, or the pencil icon on any individual section. You can update everything from your bio to your qualifications and save changes at any time.

You can delete your account at any time from the Settings page. This permanently removes your profile and authentication account, and triggers an automatic clean-up that deletes your posts, comments, challenge answers, likes, conversations and messages, notifications, connection and block records, Study Room membership, and any files you uploaded (such as your profile and cover photos and post attachments). This cannot be undone. Clean-up may take a short time to fully propagate; if you have any concerns about residual data, email us at scholarwebsite1@gmail.com.

Your data is stored in Google Firebase, with the database hosted in the EU. We do not sell your information and we do not share it with advertisers. Profile content you add is visible to signed-in Scholar users; private information like your email address and authentication details is not. You can review what is stored, request changes, and delete your account at any time. Full detail is in our Privacy Policy.

By default, only students you have accepted as connections can send you direct messages. You can change this from the Settings page, where "Who can message you" lets you allow anyone on Scholar, restrict messages to connections only, or turn direct messages off entirely. You can also block any student from the Settings page or directly from their profile, which prevents them from seeing your profile or contacting you.

If something is not working, or you encounter behaviour from another student that breaks our community standards, email us at scholarwebsite1@gmail.com or get in touch through the Settings page. We read every message and act on serious reports quickly.

You can reach us at scholarwebsite1@gmail.com for questions about your account, our Terms of Service, our Privacy Policy, your data rights, or anything else. We aim to respond promptly, and we respond to data rights requests within one calendar month.