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Keeping Covenant College’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
9 of 9
One-time tiers
0
Tiers with published renewal terms
9
Renewal risk profile
low

Renewal risk profile

Covenant College's published renewal rules cluster around a 3.0 floor with no major-GPA gating, which is survivable for the typical freshman with steady study habits. The risk is non-renewal due to enrollment status (dropping below full-time), not GPA.

  • Founders' Scholarship: See notes
  • Tower Scholarship: See notes
  • Thistle Scholarship: See notes
  • Shield Scholarship: See notes
  • Tartan Scholarship: See notes
  • Maclellan Scholars Program: See notes
  • Wilberforce Scholarship: See notes
  • Presidential Scholarship: See notes
  • Visual Arts Scholarship: See notes

Renewal terms by tier

  • Founders' Scholarship

    $22,000

    Entry requirements: Avg recipient 3.95 GPA GPA · Avg recipient 1410 SAT SAT · Avg recipient 30 ACT ACT

    To keep it: Renewal GPA/terms not stated on the scholarships & aid page.

    Source: https://covenant.edu/admissions/costs/aid.html

  • Tower Scholarship

    $20,000

    Entry requirements: Avg recipient 3.82 GPA GPA · Avg recipient 1320 SAT SAT · Avg recipient 28 ACT ACT

    To keep it: Renewal GPA/terms not stated on the scholarships & aid page.

    Source: https://covenant.edu/admissions/costs/aid.html

  • Thistle Scholarship

    $18,000

    Entry requirements: Avg recipient 3.67 GPA GPA · Avg recipient 1250 SAT SAT · Avg recipient 26 ACT ACT

    To keep it: Renewal GPA/terms not stated on the scholarships & aid page.

    Source: https://covenant.edu/admissions/costs/aid.html

  • Shield Scholarship

    $15,000

    Entry requirements: Avg recipient 3.5 GPA GPA · Avg recipient 1130 SAT SAT · Avg recipient 23 ACT ACT

    To keep it: Renewal GPA/terms not stated on the scholarships & aid page.

    Source: https://covenant.edu/admissions/costs/aid.html

  • Tartan Scholarship

    $13,000

    Entry requirements: Avg recipient 3.4 GPA GPA · Avg recipient 1040 SAT SAT · Avg recipient 20 ACT ACT

    To keep it: Renewal GPA/terms not stated on the scholarships & aid page.

    Source: https://covenant.edu/admissions/costs/aid.html

  • Maclellan Scholars Program

    Full tuition

    Entry requirements: Minimum 3.85 high school GPA GPA · Minimum 1320 SAT SAT · Minimum 28 ACT ACT

    To keep it: Renewal terms not stated on the scholarships & aid page.

    Source: https://covenant.edu/admissions/costs/aid.html

  • Wilberforce Scholarship

    $15,000

    Entry requirements: No academic minimums to compete GPA

    To keep it: Renewal terms not stated on the scholarships & aid page.

    Source: https://covenant.edu/admissions/costs/aid.html

  • Presidential Scholarship

    $5,000

    Entry requirements: Minimum 3.5 high school GPA GPA · Minimum 1240 SAT SAT · Minimum 26 ACT ACT

    To keep it: Renewal terms not stated on the scholarships & aid page.

    Source: https://covenant.edu/admissions/costs/aid.html

  • Visual Arts Scholarship

    $5,000

    Entry requirements: No academic minimums to compete GPA

    To keep it: Renewal terms not stated on the scholarships & aid page.

    Source: https://covenant.edu/admissions/costs/aid.html

How families lose this aid

  • Treating the published GPA/ACT/SAT numbers as guaranteed cutoffs for each merit tier.

    Covenant publishes the AVERAGE academic profile of recipients for each tier (e.g., Founders' avg 3.95 GPA / 30 ACT), not a hard floor. Your actual tier is set by the admissions office from your full application, so a number slightly below 'average' does not automatically disqualify you from a tier — but it also is not a promise.

Renewal questions families ask

What GPA do I need to keep my scholarship?
Covenant's scholarships & aid page does not publish a renewal GPA for the main merit tiers (some school-specific grants like the Chattanooga Christian and Hilger grants require a 2.5 institutional GPA). Confirm renewal terms directly with the financial aid office.

How Covenant College compares across our verified dataset

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

    Covenant College 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 Covenant College’s own published materials.

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