# ScholarPulse Merit Aid Strategy

> ScholarPulse Merit Aid Strategy is a paid API for AI agents from scholarpulse-bice.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.12/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Finds colleges that award the most automatic merit scholarships for a given GPA/SAT/ACT profile, with net cost estimates and scholarship stacking strategies

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://scholarpulse-bice.vercel.app/api/merit
- Price: $0.12/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/scholarpulse-merit-aid-strategy-df6f0ef5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_b7O4ao0PXg9NNijplYWAg

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability scholarpulse-merit-aid-strategy-df6f0ef5
```

Example prompt: Which colleges would automatically give my kid the most merit scholarship money if they have a 3.9 GPA and a 1420 SAT score, and how should we stack awards to get the lowest possible net cost?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when a student or parent wants to identify colleges that provide automatic, GPA/test-score-based merit scholarships — especially when the goal is to find schools where the student's academic profile qualifies for guaranteed or near-guaranteed awards, and when net cost optimization and scholarship stacking strategy are needed.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or invalid GPA returns an error or empty result
- SAT/ACT scores outside plausible range may yield no matches
- Profile too low for automatic merit thresholds returns empty college list
- Payment not completed returns 402 Payment Required

## How this service works

ScholarPulse: real-time scholarship and student finance intelligence for 190+ countries. Scholarship search, Erasmus+, FAFSA strategy, loan forgiveness, degree ROI, and merit aid. Pay-per-query via x402 on Base.

## Output

Returns a ranked list of colleges awarding the most automatic merit scholarships for the given academic profile, including estimated scholarship amounts, net cost after merit aid, award threshold requirements, and a stacking strategy for maximizing total scholarship value.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "gpa": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "major": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "engineering | nursing | business (optional)"
      },
      "state": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "TX | CA | OH (optional, for state merit programs)"
      },
      "test_score": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "SAT 1400 | ACT 32 | IB 38 (optional)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "errors": {
     "type": "object",
     "description": "Documented error responses, keyed by HTTP status code",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
       "description"
      ],
      "properties": {
       "example": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      }
     }
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "total_potential_merit": "$80,000-$180,000 over 4 years",
  "automatic_scholarships": [
   {
    "school": "University of Alabama",
    "award_name": "Presidential Scholarship",
    "annual_amount": "Full tuition",
    "gpa_threshold": "3.5 unweighted",
    "test_threshold": "SAT 1380 / ACT 31",
    "total_4yr_value": "$56,000+",
    "estimated_net_cost": "$12,000/year"
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/scholarpulse-merit-aid-strategy-df6f0ef5/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from scholarpulse-bice.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/scholarpulse-bice.vercel.app/llms.txt)