What GPA keeps my scholarship?

Presidential: 3.25. Honors: 3.00. Merit: 3.0. All renewable up to eight semesters with at least 12 credit hours registered and earned per semester. Transfer Scholarship and Freshman Grant are one-year, non-renewable awards.

Edward Waters· Renewal Rules

Keeping Edward Waters’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 20264 days ago· COWORK

At a glance

Renewable tiers: 3 of 6
One-time tiers: 3
Tiers with published renewal terms: 3
Renewal risk profile: moderate

Renewal risk profile

Edward Waters'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.

Presidential Scholarship: 3.25 GPA
Honors Scholarship: 3.00 GPA
Merit Scholarship: 3.0 GPA

Renewal terms by tier

Presidential Scholarship
Up to full tuition and fees
Entry requirements: 3.80 (cumulative) GPA
To keep it: Renewable up to eight semesters by maintaining a minimum 3.25 GPA; must register for and earn at least 12 credit hours per semester.
Source: https://www.ew.edu/financial-aid/
Honors Scholarship
Up to $10,000
Entry requirements: 3.25 (cumulative) GPA
To keep it: Renewable up to eight semesters by maintaining a 3.00 GPA; must register for and earn at least 12 credit hours per semester.
Source: https://www.ew.edu/financial-aid/
Merit Scholarship
Up to $5,000
Entry requirements: 3.00 (cumulative) GPA
To keep it: Renewable up to eight semesters by maintaining a 3.0 GPA; must register for and earn at least 12 credit hours per semester.
Source: https://www.ew.edu/financial-aid/

How families lose this aid

Skipping the essay for the top two awards.
Both the Presidential (3.80 GPA) and Honors (3.25 GPA) scholarships state 'Students must also submit an essay to be eligible.'
Transfer students expecting multi-year merit.
The Transfer Scholarship 'is non-renewable and is only good for one academic year' — budget years two through four without it.
Florida seniors waiting until college to apply for Bright Futures.
EWU's page warns: 'Apply during his/her last year in high school, before graduation, or you will forfeit all future eligibility for a Bright Futures Scholarship.'
Dropping to a light course load.
Renewable awards require registering for and earning at least 12 credit hours per semester; renewal GPA cliffs are 3.25 (Presidential) and 3.0 (Honors, Merit).

Renewal questions families ask

What GPA keeps my scholarship?: Presidential: 3.25. Honors: 3.00. Merit: 3.0. All renewable up to eight semesters with at least 12 credit hours registered and earned per semester. Transfer Scholarship and Freshman Grant are one-year, non-renewable awards.

How Edward Waters compares across our verified dataset

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

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