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Keeping Aquinas’s Merit Aid for Four Years

What the financial-aid office actually requires after freshman year: minimum GPA, credit-hour pace, and the cliffs that quietly downgrade families mid-degree.

Verified Jun 20264 days ago· COWORK

At a glance

Renewable tiers
5 of 5
One-time tiers
0
Tiers with published renewal terms
5
Renewal risk profile
moderate

Renewal risk profile

Aquinas's renewal bar is achievable for steady students but isn't generous. Most awards require a cumulative GPA in the 3.0–3.4 band plus full-time enrollment. Audit the strictest tier on this school's list before assuming the four-year value is locked in.

  • The Aquinas College Scholarship: Full-time enrollment
  • Jerome C. Byrne Full-Tuition and Standard Room Scholarship: Full-time enrollment
  • St. Albertus Magnus Scholarships: Full-time enrollment
  • Aquinas Assurance: See notes
  • Aquinas College Scholarship (Transfer Students): Full-time enrollment

Renewal terms by tier

  • The Aquinas College Scholarship

    $15,000-$25,000

    Entry requirements: Award amount is based on academic performance (incoming GPA) and residency status; the exact GPA-to-dollar grid is published only in an interactive 'Scholarship Calculator' (JavaScript widget that did not render to static text), not on a static page. GPA

    To keep it: Institutional aid awarded upon acceptance renews for traditional students up to 5 years or a bachelor's degree provided the student is enrolled full-time (minimum 12 credits) and maintaining Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP).

    Source: https://www.aquinas.edu/cost-aid/scholarships/first-year-scholarships.html

  • Jerome C. Byrne Full-Tuition and Standard Room Scholarship

    Full tuition and standard room

    To keep it: Renewable by maintaining Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) and full-time enrollment each semester.

    Source: https://www.aquinas.edu/cost-aid/scholarships/first-year-scholarships.html

  • St. Albertus Magnus Scholarships

    $500

    To keep it: Renews annually by maintaining Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) and full-time enrollment each semester.

    Source: https://www.aquinas.edu/cost-aid/scholarships/first-year-scholarships.html

  • Aquinas Assurance

    Full tuition

    To keep it: To maintain eligibility for all four years, students must enroll in and carry at least 12 credits each semester in a traditional Bachelor's Degree program with Standard Academic Progress and remain eligible for the full Pell and state of Michigan funding grants.

    Source: https://www.aquinas.edu/cost-aid/aquinas-assurance.html

  • Aquinas College Scholarship (Transfer Students)

    Amount not published

    To keep it: Institutional aid awarded upon acceptance renews for traditional students up to 5 years or a bachelor's degree provided full-time enrollment (minimum 12 credits) and SAP (general institutional renewal policy).

    Source: https://www.aquinas.edu/cost-aid/scholarships/index.html

How families lose this aid

  • Dropping below 12 credits or letting GPA slip below SAP standards and expecting the scholarship to continue.

    Institutional aid renews 'up to 5 years or a bachelor's degree provided the student is enrolled full-time (minimum 12 credits) and maintaining Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP).' SAP for a bachelor's degree requires a cumulative Aquinas GPA of 1.80 after 12 credits, 1.90 after 36, 2.00 after 60, plus a 67% completion pace; students below standards for two consecutive semesters 'will have all financial aid canceled.'

  • Counting on an endowed scholarship to renew automatically.

    The 2026-27 package page cautions: 'Some endowed scholarships are one-time only — check your award details.'

Renewal questions families ask

How much merit aid will I get?
All incoming traditional-aged first-year undergraduates receive the Aquinas College Scholarship of $15,000-$25,000 per year, 'based on academic performance and residency status.' The exact GPA-to-dollar amounts are shown only in the school's online Scholarship Calculator.
Is my scholarship renewable, and what do I have to do to keep it?
Yes — institutional aid 'will renew for traditional students up to 5 years or a bachelor's degree provided the student is enrolled full-time (minimum 12 credits) and maintaining Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP).'

Rules that bite at Aquinas

The renewal trip wires we'd flag in a custom playbook, derived from Aquinas's own tier rules and not generic advice.

  • renewalThe Aquinas College Scholarship: renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out

    Institutional aid awarded upon acceptance renews for traditional students up to 5 years or a bachelor's degree provided the student is enrolled full-time (minimum 12 credits) and maintaining Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP). A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.

How Aquinas compares across our verified dataset

  • 669 of 751 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.

    Aquinas is one of them. The cohort minority (82 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 renewal claim is checked against Aquinas’s own published materials.

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