How much is Lehman's biggest merit scholarship?

The largest published named merit award is the Lehman Scholars Program honors scholarship: '$5,000 scholarship' plus advising/mentoring for accepted students. The automatic Peter F. Vallone Scholarship for NYC high-school graduates is '$800 per year ($400 per semester).' Lehman does not publish a dollar amount for its general Academic Scholarship.

Lehman College· Renewal Rules

Keeping Lehman 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.

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At a glance

Renewable tiers: 3 of 3
One-time tiers: 0
Tiers with published renewal terms: 3
Renewal risk profile: low

Renewal risk profile

Lehman 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.

Lehman College Academic Scholarship: See notes
Lehman Scholars Program (LSP) Honors Scholarship: See notes
Peter F. Vallone Scholarship (formerly NYC Council Merit Scholarship): See notes

Renewal terms by tier

Lehman College Academic Scholarship
Amount not published
To keep it: Renewal terms not stated on the page.
Source: https://www.lehman.edu/financial-aid/programs/scholarships/
Lehman Scholars Program (LSP) Honors Scholarship
$5,000 scholarship
To keep it: Page does not state whether the $5,000 is a one-time or per-year award, nor a renewal GPA. Program spans the student's college career (4 honors seminars, 2 years of foreign language, a capstone).
Source: https://www.lehman.edu/chase/lehman-scholars-program/
Peter F. Vallone Scholarship (formerly NYC Council Merit Scholarship)
$800 per year ($400 per semester)
To keep it: Awarded per academic year; the page notes 'Scholarship awards may vary for each academic year.' No renewal GPA is published.
Source: https://www.lehman.edu/financial-aid/programs/scholarships/

How families lose this aid

Expecting a published 'automatic merit grid' with dollar amounts and GPA tiers like a private college.
Lehman states freshmen are 'automatically considered for a range of scholarships based on academic merit' with 'no separate application,' but it does NOT publish award amounts, GPA cutoffs, or test cutoffs on its public pages. The actual award and criteria come from the Office of Testing and Scholarships, and awardees are 'individually contacted.'
Applying for Spring admission and expecting a scholarship.
The official page states plainly: 'No scholarships are awarded to applicants seeking admission for the Spring semester.' Scholarship consideration is a Fall-entry, first-come/first-served process.

Renewal questions families ask

How much is Lehman's biggest merit scholarship?: The largest published named merit award is the Lehman Scholars Program honors scholarship: '$5,000 scholarship' plus advising/mentoring for accepted students. The automatic Peter F. Vallone Scholarship for NYC high-school graduates is '$800 per year ($400 per semester).' Lehman does not publish a dollar amount for its general Academic Scholarship.

How Lehman College compares across our verified dataset

669 of 751 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Lehman 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 Lehman College’s own published materials.