Alumni Technology Skills Bootcamp Scholarship Application

Transform Your Career with Our Alumni Tech Bootcamp Scholarship

Making a career change into technology can feel daunting—especially when balancing financial constraints with the need for quality training and support. Our Alumni Technology Skills Bootcamp Scholarship Application helps universities and alumni associations streamline the process of identifying, evaluating, and supporting graduates ready to pivot into high-demand tech roles.

Why This Template Works for Alumni Programs

University alumni offices and career services teams need more than a basic application form. This template captures the complete picture: career change motivation, coding aptitude, financial circumstances, and mentor compatibility—all the factors that predict bootcamp success and long-term career outcomes.

Built with Paperform, this form gives your alumni relations team a professional, on-brand experience that reflects the quality of your institution while making it incredibly simple for applicants to share their story, demonstrate their potential, and access the support they need.

What This Template Includes

Personal & Educational Background
Capture alumni details, graduation year, degree program, and current employment status to understand where applicants are starting from.

Career Change Motivation
Multi-line text fields let applicants articulate why they're pursuing tech, what sparked their interest, and what specific roles they're targeting. This qualitative insight is essential for selection committees.

Coding Aptitude Assessment
Built-in questions assess prior technical exposure, self-taught progress, problem-solving approach, and learning style—helping you identify candidates with genuine aptitude even if they lack formal training.

Financial Need Documentation
Sensitive, optional fields for household income range, current financial obligations, and scholarship impact statement ensure you can prioritize applicants who need funding most, while respecting privacy.

Job Placement & Career Goals
Understand what success looks like for each applicant: target roles, preferred industries, geographic flexibility, and timeline expectations. This helps you tailor placement services and measure program ROI.

Alumni Mentor Pairing Preferences
Collect preferences for mentor background, communication style, and areas of guidance—whether technical skills, job search strategy, or work-life balance in tech. This makes mentor matching far more effective.

Program Commitment & Availability
Confirm applicants understand the time commitment, bootcamp format, and post-graduation expectations, reducing dropout rates and ensuring serious candidates.

Perfect for Universities, Alumni Associations & Career Services

This template is ideal for:

• Alumni relations offices managing career transition programs and lifelong learning initiatives
• University career services expanding support for graduates seeking upskilling and reskilling
• Alumni foundations administering scholarship funds for professional development
• Continuing education departments recruiting cohorts for bootcamp partnerships
• Development offices demonstrating impact to donors funding career change programs

How Paperform Elevates Alumni Engagement

Paperform makes it effortless to create forms that feel like a natural extension of your university's brand. Use the doc-style editor to weave in your institution's colors, fonts, logos, and even photos or testimonials from past bootcamp graduates. You can embed this form directly on your alumni portal or career services site, or host it on a custom domain for a dedicated scholarship campaign.

Conditional logic ensures applicants only see relevant questions—if someone indicates strong financial need, they'll see expanded scholarship questions; if they're targeting a specific tech track, you can ask track-specific aptitude questions. This keeps the form focused and respectful of applicants' time.

After submission, use Stepper (stepper.io) to automate your review workflow: route applications to selection committees, send status updates to applicants, schedule interviews with shortlisted candidates, and trigger mentor matching surveys for accepted scholars. Everything stays connected, and nothing falls through the cracks.

Payments, Compliance & Data Management

If your program requires an application fee (waivable for need-based applicants), Paperform's built-in payment integration with Stripe, PayPal, and Square makes it simple to collect and track. You can use conditional logic to waive fees automatically based on financial need responses.

For universities handling sensitive alumni data, Paperform offers SOC 2 Type II compliance, SSO integration, and data residency controls, ensuring applicant information is managed securely and in line with institutional policies.

Submissions flow directly into your existing systems—sync applications to Airtable or Google Sheets for selection committee review, push accepted scholars into your CRM or alumni database, and send notifications to Slack or email when high-priority applications arrive.

Built for Friendliness, Optimized for Outcomes

Career change is personal. Your scholarship application should feel supportive, not bureaucratic. Paperform's friendly, conversational form experience encourages applicants to share authentically, while the powerful backend ensures your team has all the structured data needed to make fair, informed decisions.

Whether you're launching your first alumni bootcamp cohort or scaling an established program, this template gives you a head start with thoughtful, proven questions and a user experience that reflects the transformational opportunity you're offering.

Get Started in Minutes

With Paperform's AI-assisted builder, you can customize this template to match your specific bootcamp focus—whether it's web development, data science, cybersecurity, UX design, or full-stack engineering. Add your institution's unique scholarship criteria, adjust eligibility requirements, and launch your application in the time it would take to write an email.

Trusted by universities and educational institutions worldwide, Paperform is the flexible, powerful platform for alumni engagement, career services, and lifelong learning programs that need to do more than just collect data—they need to build community, create opportunity, and change lives.

Start supporting your alumni's career transformations with a scholarship application that's as forward-thinking as the futures you're helping them build.