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.
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The short answer
Is Allegheny worth a closer look?
Allegheny may be worth checking, but its awards do not follow a simple grades-and-scores chart. Start with the published scholarships below.
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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.
$10,000-$43,000
Allegheny College Trustee Scholarship
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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.
Notes
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.
These are the rules we would flag for your family. Each comes from Allegheny's published information.
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.
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
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.)
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.
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.
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 income
Average 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.
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.
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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.
