What is the Stamps Scholarship deadline?

Submit a completed application by January 15; interviews are encouraged. Stamps covers 100% of tuition plus an enrichment fund, renewable up to eight semesters.

How long do the merit scholarships last?

Eight semesters for most programs (10 for the 4+1 MOT, 12 for the OTD, 8 for the accelerated 5-year PA program), contingent on full-time enrollment and good academic and social standing; not available in summer.

Elizabethtown· Renewal Rules

Keeping Elizabethtown’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 2026today· COWORK

At a glance

Renewable tiers: 5 of 5
One-time tiers: 0
Tiers with published renewal terms: 5
Renewal risk profile: moderate

Renewal risk profile

Elizabethtown'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.

Excelsior Scholarship: Full-time enrollment
Presidential Scholarship: Full-time enrollment
Founders Scholarship: Full-time enrollment
Deans Scholarship: Full-time enrollment
Stamps Scholars Program: See notes

Renewal terms by tier

Excelsior Scholarship
$21,500
Entry requirements: ~3.9 GPA, top of high school class GPA · Test-optional SAT · Test-optional (reviewed with or without scores) ACT
To keep it: Remain full-time in good academic and social standing; available for eight semesters (10 for 4+1 MOT, 12 for OTD, 8 for accelerated 5-year PA). Not for summer sessions.
Source: https://www.etown.edu/admissions/tuition-aid/scholarships-grants.aspx
Presidential Scholarship
$21,000
Entry requirements: Top percentages of HS class GPA · Test-optional SAT · Test-optional ACT
To keep it: Full-time, good academic and social standing; eight semesters; not for summer.
Source: https://www.etown.edu/admissions/tuition-aid/scholarships-grants.aspx
Founders Scholarship
$18,500
Entry requirements: Top 10 percent of HS class GPA · Test-optional SAT · Test-optional ACT
To keep it: Full-time, good academic and social standing; eight semesters; not for summer.
Source: https://www.etown.edu/admissions/tuition-aid/scholarships-grants.aspx
Deans Scholarship
$16,000
Entry requirements: Excellent academic record GPA · Test-optional SAT · Test-optional ACT
To keep it: Full-time, good academic and social standing; eight semesters; not for summer.
Source: https://www.etown.edu/admissions/tuition-aid/scholarships-grants.aspx
Stamps Scholars Program
Full tuition plus an enrichment fund
To keep it: Renewable for up to eight semesters.
Source: https://www.etown.edu/admissions/tuition-aid/scholarships-grants.aspx

How families lose this aid

Counting on scholarships for a 9th+ semester or summer
Merit scholarships are available for eight semesters only (with program-specific exceptions for OT/PA tracks) and are not transferable to summer sessions.

Renewal questions families ask

What is the Stamps Scholarship deadline?: Submit a completed application by January 15; interviews are encouraged. Stamps covers 100% of tuition plus an enrichment fund, renewable up to eight semesters.
How long do the merit scholarships last?: Eight semesters for most programs (10 for the 4+1 MOT, 12 for the OTD, 8 for the accelerated 5-year PA program), contingent on full-time enrollment and good academic and social standing; not available in summer.

Rules that bite at Elizabethtown

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

renewalExcelsior Scholarship: renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out
Remain full-time in good academic and social standing; available for eight semesters (10 for 4+1 MOT, 12 for OTD, 8 for accelerated 5-year PA). Not for summer sessions. A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.

How Elizabethtown compares across our verified dataset

247 of 272 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Elizabethtown is one of them. The cohort minority (25 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 Elizabethtown’s own published materials.