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Chestnut Hill scholarships and merit aid

The short answer

Chestnut Hill awards automatic merit on admission. Chestnut Hill does not publish a GPA or test chart, so you cannot self-calculate the dollars.

Where does your student land?

Verified Jul 2026
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Published rules, with the school sources close at hand. Confirm the details before you count on an award.

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. First-Year Scholarship Matrix (Presidential / Distinction / Scholars / Achievement / Rise / Promise)$12,000-$24,000AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    First-Year Scholarship Matrix (Presidential / Distinction / Scholars / Achievement / Rise / Promise)

    $12,000-$24,000

    Published rangeAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    Tiered: 3.9+ = $24,000; 3.5-3.89 = $20,000; 3.25-3.49 = $18,000; 3.0-3.24 = $16,000; 2.5-2.89 = $14,000; 2.49 and below = $12,000
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for First-Year Scholarship Matrix (Presidential / Distinction / Scholars / Achievement / Rise / Promise)

    Who qualifies

    Must be full-time; GPA is based on a 4.0 sliding scale; no additional application required

    How to keep it

    These awards are renewable as long as you remain in good academic standing; institutional funding limited to a maximum of four years (8 semesters).

    Worth knowing

    Awarded by the Admissions Office at admission. Grid bands skip 2.90-2.99 as published (Rise Award 2.5-2.89, Promise Award 2.49 and below) — gap reproduced exactly as on the page.

  2. Transfer Scholarship Matrix (Distinguished Transfer / Noble Griffin / Golden Elite / Thrive / Opportunity)$12,000-$22,000AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    Transfer Scholarship Matrix (Distinguished Transfer / Noble Griffin / Golden Elite / Thrive / Opportunity)

    $12,000-$22,000

    Published rangeAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    Tiered: 3.75+ = $22,000; 3.25-3.74 = $18,000; 2.75-3.24 = $16,000; 2.50-2.74 = $14,000; 2.49 and below = $12,000
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Transfer Scholarship Matrix (Distinguished Transfer / Noble Griffin / Golden Elite / Thrive / Opportunity)

    Who qualifies

    Transfer students; must be full-time; no additional application required

    How to keep it

    These awards are renewable as long as you remain in good academic standing; institutional funding limited to a maximum of four years (8 semesters).

    Worth knowing

    Separate automatic grid for transfer students, awarded by the Admissions Office.

  3. Interdisciplinary Honors Program (IDHP)$5,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Interdisciplinary Honors Program (IDHP)

    $5,000

    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 Interdisciplinary Honors Program (IDHP)

    Who qualifies

    First-year students selected for the IDHP program

    How to keep it

    Per year for four years.

    Worth knowing

    Selective program award; the Legacy of Service Scholarship explicitly does NOT stack with IDHP.

  4. Tichenor-Greer Scholars Program (TGSP)$5,000Not automatic
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Tichenor-Greer Scholars Program (TGSP)

    $5,000

    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.

    Open award details for Tichenor-Greer Scholars Program (TGSP)

    Who qualifies

    Up to 25 first-year students interested in pursuing a major and/or career in STEM

    Worth knowing

    Includes book stipend and support services. A separate program page lists eligibility criteria (min cumulative GPA 2.5, FAFSA financial-aid qualification, STEM major) — see Section C.

  5. Legacy of Service Scholarship$4,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Legacy of Service Scholarship

    $4,000

    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 Legacy of Service Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    First-year students who graduated from a Catholic high school

    How to keep it

    Per year for 4 years.

    Worth knowing

    Stackable, except for students in IDHP.

  6. Alumni Legacy Scholarship$2,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Alumni Legacy 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 Alumni Legacy Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    First-year and transfer students whose parent, grandparent, sibling, or child is a CHC alumnus

    How to keep it

    Per year for 4 years.

    Worth knowing

    Explicitly described as a stackable scholarship.

  7. Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Scholarship$2,000Not automatic
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society 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.

    Open award details for Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    Transfer students who are members of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society from a 2-year college or community college; proof of membership required

Lights up against Chestnut Hill's published cutoffs. Not an award offer; confirm with the financial aid office. Award terms and residency rules change; some awards differ for in-state and out-of-state students. Always confirm at the school’s source page.

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What makes Chestnut Hill different

DRAFT: Chestnut Hill publishes a fully automatic, GPA-only merit grid ($12,000–$24,000/yr) with no test scores required and an award tier for every GPA band — even below 2.5 — plus stackable legacy and Catholic-high-school awards.

Merit tiers72 based on grades or scores
Research checkedJul 2026By our research team

More than one award path

Separate the two paths.

Some awards use published academic thresholds. Others have different selection criteria. A score chart does not describe every award at this school.

  1. Match the published criteria

    Use all requirements together, including residency and the entering class.

  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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What families often miss

  1. CHC policy: outside grants/scholarships plus institutional grant funding 'can never result in a credit balance' — if they would, 'the student's institutional funding will be reduced and no refund will be credited.' Outside money can displace CHC aid once your account would go into credit.

  2. The Financial Aid Policies page states federal regulations require all financial resources to fit within the student's COA; overawards are resolved by reducing aid, and any resulting balance is the student's responsibility.

  3. The types-of-aid page states 'Students must be full-time to receive scholarships and grants from CHC.'

  4. Students 'are eligible to receive institutional funding for a maximum of four years (8 semesters).'

  5. The page says Legacy of Service 'is a stackable scholarship with the exception of students in IDHP' — Honors students cannot add it.

  6. The page warns: 'If these requirements are not met the athletic grant may be rescinded. Should this happen, the rescinded athletic grants may not be replaced by other grants.'

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Who this school may work for

DRAFT: Students who want guaranteed, application-free merit money based purely on high-school GPA — including B/C students, since even a sub-2.5 GPA earns $12,000/yr; Catholic-high-school grads and alumni-family students can stack extra awards on top.

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at Chestnut Hill, academic year 2021-22
Family incomeAverage net price paid
$0–$30,000$28,011
$30,001–$48,000$24,447
$48,001–$75,000$22,714
$75,001–$110,000$28,168
$110,001+$33,175
All income levels (average)$27,970

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Total cost of attendance (sticker), AY 2021-22
$58,168
Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23
$39,870
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22
$27,970

That works out to an average 52% discount off the sticker price above — both figures come from the same federal AY 2021-22 Scorecard report, not a number the school itself published.

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort
49%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort
62%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers
$26,389 (~$280/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21)
$52,015
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22
56%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22
83%
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If your student brings another scholarship

Chestnut Hill reduces institutional grant funding only when combined outside grant/scholarship aid and institutional grant funding would create a credit balance on the student's account (i.e., aid exceeding billed costs); no refund is issued in that case. This credit-balance trigger is narrower than the full cost of attendance the college separately uses to define an overaward.

Verified policy language (2026-07-02): If a student receives outside grants, scholarships or tuition assistance in addition to institutional grant funding, a combination of these resources can never result in a credit balance on the student's account. Therefore, in instances where outside grant assistance and institutional grant funding result in a credit on the student's account, the student's institutional funding will be reduced and no refund will be credited. ... An overaward of financial aid occurs when all of the financial aid received by a student exceeds the student's cost of attendance (COA). ... All financial resources that are received must be reviewed to ensure that it fits within the established budget for the student and does not exceed the cost of attendance (COA). Separately, the school's own award-stacking rules: Some named awards (Alumni Legacy, Legacy of Service) are explicitly stackable, but Legacy of Service does not stack with IDHP. (per https://www.chc.edu/admissions-aid/financial-aid/applying-for-aid/financial-aid-policies/)

Source

Other Chestnut Hill scholarships worth checking

These awards can be harder to find. Each one has its own rules.

Amount$250-$21,950 per year depending on fundEligibilityRecipients determined by the Admissions Office on the basis of academic excellence, leadership, community involvement and other special talents; no additional application required.

Full published list ranges from the Sister Patrick Flood Scholarship ($250) to the Keohane-McDermott-Bellwoar Scholarship ($21,950).

Source

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityAwarded by financial aid office staff based on demonstrated financial need per FAFSA and availability of funding.

Need-based, not merit.

Source

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityPer the program application page found in search: requires at least a 3.0 GPA; provides 'last dollar' scholarship support for four years (application form page; details not fully verified — see Section C).

Application-based program hosted at CHC.

Source

Chestnut Hill merit aid FAQ

  • Do I need a separate application for Chestnut Hill's merit scholarships?

    No. The Admissions Office awards them automatically based on academic achievement: 'no additional application is required to apply for these awards.'

  • What is the scholarship deadline?

    No separate merit-scholarship deadline is published — the matrix awards are automatic at admission. The only hard date on the aid pages is for Pennsylvania residents: PHEAA state-grant programs 'require that students submit their FAFSA before May 1st.'

  • How do I keep my scholarship each year?

    Awards 'are renewable as long as you remain in good academic standing.' A specific renewal GPA for merit awards is not published; federal SAP minimums (1.65–2.00 GPA depending on credits, 67% completion) govern overall aid eligibility. Ask the aid office whether merit renewal uses a higher GPA than SAP.

  • Are test scores required for merit scholarships?

    The published First-Year Scholarship Matrix is based on academic GPA only ('GPA is based on a 4.0 sliding scale'); no SAT/ACT cutoffs appear in the grid.

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How Chestnut Hill compares

  • 235 of 749 verified schools in our dataset use cost-of-attendance cap displacement.

    Chestnut Hill is in a recognizable cluster (235 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.

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

    Chestnut Hill 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 Chestnut Hill’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

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