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Allegheny scholarships and merit aid

Two prices: the posted one, and yours.

Posted price$78,650per year · 2026-2027 · cost of attendance
Yours?depends on the rules below

The short answer

Allegheny may be worth checking, but its awards do not follow a simple grades-and-scores chart. Start with the published scholarships below.

Where does your student land?

Verified Jul 2026
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The award collection

Published scholarships

These amounts and requirements come from the school’s own published pages. Open an award to see who qualifies and how to keep it.

Where does your student land?

  1. Allegheny College Trustee Scholarship$10,000-$43,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Allegheny College Trustee Scholarship

    $10,000-$43,000

    Published rangeNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    Start with the award’s published eligibility.

    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Allegheny College Trustee Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    Holistic: academic excellence balanced with leadership, co-curricular involvement, community engagement, and other talents. No separate application — automatic when you apply for admission by the deadline. First-year and transfer students eligible; must be full-time, degree-seeking

    How to keep it

    Renews automatically for up to 4 years of full-time enrollment at Allegheny (or an Allegheny-sponsored off-campus study program). NO minimum GPA is required to renew — only continued full-time, degree-seeking enrollment.

    Worth knowing

    No published GPA/test grid — holistic review (do not infer a grid). Up to $43,000/year (up to $172,000 over four years); approximately half of applicants receive a Trustee Scholarship, with only a small number receiving the top award. NOTE: the page body states $43,000/yr while the page header and meta-description state 'up to $42,000' (see Section C). The amount floor shown here ($10,000) is a conservative placeholder — the page does not publish a minimum, so verify the actual range.

  2. Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) Scholarship$2,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) Scholarship

    $2,000

    Published amountNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    Start with the award’s published eligibility.

    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    Separate application with audition materials (no more than 8 minutes); reviewed as space permits

    How to keep it

    Renewable based on your continued participation in the arts.

    Worth knowing

    Separate competitive arts pool, distinct from the Trustee Scholarship.

  3. Allegheny Referral Scholarship$1,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Allegheny Referral Scholarship

    $1,000

    Published amountNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    Start with the award’s published eligibility.

    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Allegheny Referral Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    Referred by a friend of the College; only one referral scholarship even if referred by multiple friends

    How to keep it

    Renewable for all 4 years ($4,000 total impact).

    Worth knowing

    $1,000/year, $4,000 over four years.

  4. Visit Grant$1,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Visit Grant

    $1,000

    Published amountNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    Start with the award’s published eligibility.

    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Visit Grant

    Who qualifies

    Visit Allegheny College before February 15 of your senior year of high school

    How to keep it

    $1,000/year for four years ($4,000 total).

    Worth knowing

    $4,000 total ($1,000/year) — earned by visiting campus before the senior-year deadline, even before applying for admission.

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The fine print

Renewal ruleAllegheny College Trustee Scholarship: renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out

Renews automatically for up to 4 years of full-time enrollment at Allegheny (or an Allegheny-sponsored off-campus study program). NO minimum GPA is required to renew — only continued full-time, degree-seeking enrollment. A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.

Outside awardsNo published displacement order

Allegheny's policy doesn't specify whether outside scholarships hit loans, grants, or only the COA ceiling. Get a written aid-office answer before chasing private awards.

Bentley Hall at Allegheny College

Bentley Hall at Allegheny College

What makes Allegheny different

Allegheny's flagship Trustee Scholarship is awarded automatically (no separate application) to about half of applicants on a holistic basis up to $43,000/year, and—unusually—it renews for four years with NO minimum GPA, only continued full-time enrollment.

Merit tiers4See who qualifies
Research checkedJul 2026By our research team

Selection beyond grades and scores

Start with the selection process.

These awards are not recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read each award's selection rules, application steps and dates. Meeting a minimum is not an award offer.

  1. Read the selection rules

    Look for the school's stated criteria and whether an additional application is needed.

  2. Check the application dates

    Confirm the current admission and scholarship deadlines directly with the school.

  3. Know what happens next year

    Check renewal, credit requirements and how other aid affects the award.

The fine print / Three questions to carry forward

Before you count on it.

Does it apply to us? Confirm the entering year, residency and every eligibility condition.

Can we keep it? Check renewal GPA, credits and how long the award lasts.

Can we combine it? Ask how outside scholarships and other school awards change the offer.

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A printable research summary, source links and room for your questions.

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Straight from the aid office

What Allegheny's aid office says

Per the Financial Aid Office, Allegheny College, August 2026. How we verify

Effect of outside scholarships on Allegheny aid

Will an outside/private scholarship reduce my Allegheny financial aid package?

An outside scholarship is added on top of the existing aid package and does not reduce Allegheny funds, except in one specific case.

“An outside scholarship is added on top.”
When Allegheny aid would be reduced

Under what circumstance would Allegheny reduce its own aid due to outside scholarships?

Allegheny funds would only be reduced if outside scholarships caused the total aid to exceed the cost of attendance, per federal rules.

“The only time we would reduce Allegheny funds would be if your student had so many outside scholarships, that they would go over the cost of attendance per federal rules.”

What families often miss

  1. Unusually, the Trustee Scholarship requires NO minimum GPA to renew — it renews automatically for up to four years on continued full-time, degree-seeking enrollment. (This is family-favorable, but the award still ends if you drop below full-time.)

  2. The Trustee Scholarship is automatic only if you apply by Early Decision (Nov 1), Early Action (Dec 1 or Feb 1), or Regular Decision (Feb 15) — apply late and you forfeit automatic consideration.

  3. The CAPA (Creative and Performing Arts) Scholarship is a separate application requiring audition materials and is reviewed as space permits — it is not granted automatically like the Trustee Scholarship.

  4. Visiting Allegheny before February 15 of your senior year earns a $4,000 Visit Grant ($1,000/year) — waiting too long to visit forfeits it.

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Who this school may work for

Well-rounded applicants who blend academics with leadership and involvement — roughly half receive a Trustee Scholarship, and the no-minimum-GPA renewal makes it forgiving once you're in.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $78,650 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Allegheny, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.

Average annual net price by family income at Allegheny, academic year 2021-22
Family incomeAverage net price paid
$0–$30,000$18,495
$30,001–$48,000$27,718
$48,001–$75,000$13,059
$75,001–$110,000$21,357
$110,001+$30,046
All income levels (average)$22,940

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23
$56,550
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22
$22,940

That works out to roughly a 68% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $71,348 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort
73%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort
78%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers
$27,000 (~$286/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21)
$62,069
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22
41%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22
62%
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If your student brings another scholarship

The scholarship page lists external/outside scholarship resources but does not state how OUTSIDE/private scholarships interact with or displace Allegheny institutional aid. Multiple Allegheny awards (Trustee + Referral + Visit Grant) are presented as separately renewable, implying they stack, but a formal stacking/cap policy was not found on the pages opened.

No outside-scholarship displacement statement located on the scholarship-opportunities or tuition-and-fees pages.

Source

Allegheny merit aid FAQ

  • Do I need a separate application for the Trustee Scholarship?

    No. The Trustee Scholarship is awarded automatically when you apply for admission by the deadline; you're notified by mail of your eligibility and award amount.

  • Is there a minimum GPA to keep the Trustee Scholarship?

    No. It renews automatically for up to four years of full-time enrollment with no minimum GPA required.

  • What are the scholarship-relevant application deadlines?

    Early Decision November 1, Early Action December 1 and February 1, Regular Decision February 15. Visit before February 15 of senior year for the $4,000 Visit Grant.

See sources and other schools

How Allegheny compares

  • 133 of 749 verified schools in our dataset use unclear or unpublished displacement.

    Allegheny is in a recognizable cluster (133 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.

  • 133 of 749 verified schools publish no clear displacement order.

    Allegheny is one of them. The right move is the aid-office email script below, not a guess.

  • 665 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.

    Allegheny is one of them. The cohort minority (84 schools) only awards one-year scholarships, which means the four-year value families assume on a brochure quote isn't guaranteed at every school.

Sources used on this page

Every claim is checked against Allegheny’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

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