<![CDATA[The Indonesia Smart Card (KIP) Scholarship Program aims to support students from underprivileged families in pursuing higher education, yet the distribution of recipient data often experiences class imbalance, leading to inaccuracies in scholarship allocation. This imbalance, characterized by disproportionate data between recipient and non-recipient groups, affects classification model performance, causing models to favor the majority class and overlook the minority class, potentially excluding eligible recipients. To address this issue, this study combines the Genetic Algorithm for feature selection and optimization with Tomek Links-Random Undersampling for data balancing. The research process includes data preprocessing, 10-fold cross-validation, and performance evaluation using a confusion matrix. Results indicate that without Tomek Links-Random Undersampling, Naïve Bayes accuracy increased from 65.2% to 66.0% after feature selection and optimization using the Genetic Algorithm, while applying Tomek Links-Random Undersampling improved accuracy from 56% to 63%. This method also enhanced fairness in recipient classification, promoting a more equitable distribution of benefits. The improved model accuracy significantly aids future scholarship selection processes, demonstrating that integrating efficient machine learning approaches optimizes the KIP Scholarship Program by ensuring beneficiaries are appropriately targeted based on predetermined criteria.]]>
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