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Keeping Azusa Pacific’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 20268 days ago· CC

At a glance

Renewable tiers
6 of 6
One-time tiers
0
Tiers with published renewal terms
6
Renewal risk profile
moderate

Renewal risk profile

Azusa Pacific'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.

  • Trustees' Scholarship: 3.0 GPA
  • President's Scholarship: 2.8 GPA
  • Provost's Scholarship: 2.8 GPA
  • Deans' Scholarship: 2.8 GPA
  • Directors' Scholarship: 2.8 GPA
  • Mary Hill Award: 2.8 GPA

Renewal terms by tier

  • Trustees' Scholarship

    Full tuition

    Entry requirements: Minimum high school weighted GPA of 3.9 on a 4.0 scale, or ranked in the top five percent GPA

    To keep it: Renewable for recipients maintaining a minimum course load of 12 units with a 3.0 cumulative GPA at the end of each academic year, up to the amount of annual tuition for a maximum of four years or completion of a bachelor's degree, whichever comes first.

    Source: https://www.apu.edu/trustees-scholarship/

  • President's Scholarship

    $24,000 per year

    Entry requirements: Not published; set by a sliding scale combining GPA and test scores at the time of admittance GPA

    To keep it: Renewable up to four years; must maintain at least a 2.8 cumulative GPA at APU.

    Source: https://www.apu.edu/financial-aid/types/academic/

  • Provost's Scholarship

    $22,000 per year

    Entry requirements: Not published; set by a sliding scale combining GPA and test scores at the time of admittance GPA

    To keep it: Renewable up to four years; must maintain at least a 2.8 cumulative GPA at APU.

    Source: https://www.apu.edu/financial-aid/types/academic/

  • Deans' Scholarship

    $20,000 per year

    Entry requirements: Not published; set by a sliding scale combining GPA and test scores at the time of admittance GPA

    To keep it: Renewable up to four years; must maintain at least a 2.8 cumulative GPA at APU.

    Source: https://www.apu.edu/financial-aid/types/academic/

  • Directors' Scholarship

    $18,000 per year

    Entry requirements: Not published; set by a sliding scale combining GPA and test scores at the time of admittance GPA

    To keep it: Renewable up to four years; must maintain at least a 2.8 cumulative GPA at APU.

    Source: https://www.apu.edu/financial-aid/types/academic/

  • Mary Hill Award

    $15,000 per year

    Entry requirements: Not published; set by a sliding scale combining GPA and test scores at the time of admittance GPA

    To keep it: Renewable up to four years; must maintain at least a 2.8 cumulative GPA at APU.

    Source: https://www.apu.edu/financial-aid/types/academic/

How families lose this aid

  • Assuming the President's/Provost's/Deans' awards require a separate application.

    Every academic-grid scholarship except the Trustees' Scholarship is automatic: APU sets your tier from a sliding scale combining your GPA and test scores at the time of admittance. Only the full-tuition Trustees' Scholarship needs its own application.

  • Treating the Trustees' Scholarship as a stat-based automatic award.

    It is competitive: nine awards, a separate application due February 1, 2026, a 3.9 weighted GPA (or top 5%) floor, and an on-campus interview February 19-20, 2026. Meeting the GPA minimum does not guarantee it.

Renewal questions families ask

Do I have to apply separately for APU merit scholarships?
No, except for the Trustees' Scholarship. Every admitted first-year student is automatically considered for the academic grid (Mary Hill Award through President's Scholarship), with the tier set by GPA and test scores at the time of admittance. The full-tuition Trustees' Scholarship requires a separate application by February 1, 2026.
What GPA do I need to keep my APU scholarship?
You must maintain at least a 2.8 cumulative GPA at APU to renew an academic-grid scholarship (verified after each spring semester); awards are renewable up to four years. The Trustees' Scholarship requires a higher 3.0 cumulative GPA and a 12-unit course load each year.

How Azusa Pacific compares across our verified dataset

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

    Azusa Pacific 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 Azusa Pacific’s own published materials.

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