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GWU award rules

Will the scholarship last four years at GWU?

We pulled the school’s grade, credit, and time limits into one place so you can see what it takes to keep the award.

Verified Jul 20262 months ago· CB-1

The short answer

2 of 2 published awards are listed as renewable.

The exact rule can change by award. Check the award your student may receive before you count on the same amount every year.

What to do

Find the award name in the full research below. Save its grade, credit, and deadline rules with your college plan.

See every award rule, common mistake, and source

At a glance

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

Renewal risk profile

GWU'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 Academic Scholarship: Full-time enrollment
  • Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (SJT) Scholarship: Full-time enrollment

Renewal terms by tier

  • Presidential Academic Scholarship

    Varies (tuition-specific; amount not published in a public tier table)

    To keep it: Renewable for up to 10 consecutive semesters with continuous full-time enrollment and satisfactory academic progress.

    Source: https://undergraduate.admissions.gwu.edu/merit-scholarships

  • Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (SJT) Scholarship

    Full tuition and fees (beyond the D.C. Tag Program allowance) + room and board + book allowance

    To keep it: Renewable for up to 10 consecutive semesters with continuous full-time enrollment and satisfactory academic progress.

    Source: https://undergraduate.admissions.gwu.edu/merit-scholarships

How families lose this aid

  • Assuming the Presidential Academic Scholarship has a published amount.

    GW does not publish a tier table for the Presidential Academic Scholarship. Award size is decided by Admissions on a holistic basis and disclosed in the decision letter. Forum-sourced anchors ('Presidential is usually $25k') are not reliable. Use the GW Net Price Calculator as the primary budget tool.

Renewal questions families ask

How long do GW merit scholarships last?
Up to 10 consecutive semesters of continuous full-time enrollment with satisfactory academic progress. That covers a standard four-year degree plus a fifth-year cushion for approved program structures.

Rules that bite at GWU

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

  • renewalPresidential Academic Scholarship: renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out

    Renewable for up to 10 consecutive semesters with continuous full-time enrollment and satisfactory academic progress. A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.

How GWU compares across our verified dataset

  • 667 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.

    GWU 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 GWU’s own published materials.

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