Scholarship Acceptance Decision Support System With Simple Additive Weighting (Saw) Method At Sudirman Islamic High School

Abstract

Sudirman Ambarawa Islamic High School is a Private Upper Level Secondary School located in Ambarawa, precisely on Jalan Jendral Sudirman No.2A Ambarawa, Semarang Regency, Central Java. It is very strategically located because it is on the edge of the Semarang-Yogyakarta Main Road. Sudirman Ambarawa Islamic High School is under the leadership of the Sudirman Islamic Education Center Foundation (YAPPIS). The scholarship acceptance system at Sudirman Ambarawa Islamic High School records and selects prospective scholarship recipients is still manually, namely only by using the Microsoft Excel program, which results in data input errors and the results of the selection of scholarship recipient students.
 The problems that occur at Sudirman Ambarawa Islamic High School will be resolved by supporting scholarship admission decisions. This system is needed in helping to make decisions to provide scholarships based on predetermined conditions or criteria in accordance with the standards of the Simple Additive Weighting method applied. So far, the selection process for scholarship admissions at Sudirman Ambarawa Islamic High School uses a manual process that only uses the Microsoft Excel computer program, where the consideration is also carried out manually, only doing a simple mathematical calculation process.