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Keeping Furman’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 May 20262 months ago· CA-1

At a glance

Renewable tiers
3 of 3
One-time tiers
0
Tiers with published renewal terms
2
Renewal risk profile
low

Renewal risk profile

Furman'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.

  • Bell Tower Scholarship: See notes
  • John D. Hollingsworth Scholarship: See notes

Renewal terms by tier

How Furman compares across our verified dataset

  • 669 of 750 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.

    Furman 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.

  • 133 of 750 verified schools publish a dedicated National Merit Finalist package.

    Furman is one of them. NMF packages typically carry their own stacking and renewal carve-outs separate from the standard automatic merit ladder; confirm those before assuming the headline NMF value is final.

Sources used on this page

Every renewal claim is checked against Furman’s own published materials.

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