DePauw· Renewal Rules
Keeping DePauw’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.
At a glance
- Renewable tiers
- 5 of 7
- One-time tiers
- 2
- Tiers with published renewal terms
- 4
- Renewal risk profile
- low
Renewal risk profile
DePauw'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.
- Edward G Rector Scholarship: See notes
- Prindle Institute For Ethics Scholarship: 2.75 GPA
- Depauw Distinguished Scholarship: 2.75 GPA
- Presidential Award Of Excellence: 2.75 GPA
Renewal terms by tier
Edward G Rector Scholarship
Full tuitionTo keep it: Maintain 3 GPA
Source: https://www.depauw.edu/admission-aid/scholarships-aid/types-of-aid/scholarships/
Prindle Institute For Ethics Scholarship
Amount not publishedTo keep it: Maintain 2.75 GPA
Source: https://www.depauw.edu/admission-aid/scholarships-aid/types-of-aid/scholarships/
Depauw Distinguished Scholarship
Percentage of cost of attendance (see source)To keep it: Maintain 2.75 GPA
Source: https://www.depauw.edu/admission-aid/scholarships-aid/types-of-aid/scholarships/
Presidential Award Of Excellence
Percentage of cost of attendance (see source)To keep it: Maintain 2.75 GPA
Source: https://www.depauw.edu/admission-aid/scholarships-aid/types-of-aid/scholarships/
How DePauw compares across our verified dataset
- 669 of 750 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
DePauw is one of them. The cohort minority (81 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 DePauw’s own published materials.