Drew· Renewal Rules

Keeping Drew’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 20261 month ago· COWORK

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

Drew'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.

Named Academic Scholarships (Francis Asbury, Presidential, Dean's, Drew): Full-time enrollment
Transfer Scholarship: SAP standards
Baldwin Honors Scholarship: See notes
Drew Action Scholars: See notes
Drew Scholarship in the Arts: See notes
BA/MD Combined Degree Program Scholarship: See notes

Renewal terms by tier

Named Academic Scholarships (Francis Asbury, Presidential, Dean's, Drew)
$15,000-$27,000 per year
Entry requirements: Based on previous academic achievement; no public GPA grid published (needs confirmation) GPA
To keep it: Renewable at the initial amount awarded, assuming no major changes in college tuition charges, contingent on satisfactory academic progress and continued full-time enrollment (flat — no escalation).
Source: https://drew.edu/admissions-and-aid/student-financial-services/financial-aid-scholarships/grants-scholarships/
Transfer Scholarship
$15,000-$23,000 per year
Entry requirements: Based on academic achievement; no public grid GPA
To keep it: Renewable for up to two additional years at the initial amount, assuming no major change in tuition charges and contingent on SAP.
Source: https://drew.edu/admissions-and-aid/student-financial-services/financial-aid-scholarships/grants-scholarships/
Baldwin Honors Scholarship
$3,000 per year
Entry requirements: 3.5 to retain GPA
To keep it: Retained by maintaining a GPA of 3.5 or higher and remaining active in the Baldwin Honors curriculum.
Source: https://drew.edu/admissions-and-aid/student-financial-services/financial-aid-scholarships/grants-scholarships/
Drew Action Scholars
$10,000 total ($2,500 per year over four years)
To keep it: Four-year scholarship tied to completing the two-year Action Scholars program.
Source: https://drew.edu/admissions-and-aid/student-financial-services/financial-aid-scholarships/grants-scholarships/
Drew Scholarship in the Arts
$1,500 per year ($6,000 over four years)
To keep it: Must remain in good academic standing, enrolled in 12+ credits/semester, and continue active participation in the arts.
Source: https://drew.edu/admissions-and-aid/student-financial-services/financial-aid-scholarships/grants-scholarships/
BA/MD Combined Degree Program Scholarship
$35,000 per year for three years
To keep it: For the three years at Drew in the seven-year combined-degree program.
Source: https://drew.edu/admissions-and-aid/student-financial-services/financial-aid-scholarships/grants-scholarships/

How families lose this aid

Trying to predict which named scholarship (and amount) you'll get
Drew awards 'one of four major scholarships' ranging $15,000-$27,000 based on 'previous academic achievement,' but publishes NO GPA/test cutoff grid — the actual amount is not predictable from the website and must be confirmed with admissions.
Assuming the Baldwin Honors $3,000 is guaranteed for four years
It is retained only by maintaining a GPA of 3.5 or higher AND remaining active in the Baldwin Honors curriculum — a real GPA cliff on the add-on.
Missing the NJ TAG state-aid deadlines
NJ Tuition Aid Grant deadlines: returning students April 15 (miss it and you lose grant eligibility for BOTH fall and spring), new fall/spring students September 15, new spring-only February 15.
Expecting your scholarship to grow with tuition increases
Named scholarships are 'renewable at the initial amount awarded' — they are flat and do not escalate when tuition rises.

Rules that bite at Drew

The renewal trip wires we'd flag in a custom playbook, derived from Drew's own tier rules and not generic advice.

renewalNamed Academic Scholarships (Francis Asbury, Presidential, Dean's, Drew): renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out
Renewable at the initial amount awarded, assuming no major changes in college tuition charges, contingent on satisfactory academic progress and continued full-time enrollment (flat — no escalation). A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.

How Drew compares across our verified dataset

69 of 750 verified schools publish a top renewal tier requiring 3.5+ GPA or major-GPA gating.
Drew is one of them. Calibrate year-one academic load against the renewal floor, not just freshman survival.
669 of 750 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Drew 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 Drew’s own published materials.

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