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Keeping Holy Family’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
2 of 2
One-time tiers
0
Tiers with published renewal terms
2
Renewal risk profile
low

Renewal risk profile

Holy Family'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.

  • Merit Scholarships — First Time Freshmen (Fall 2026/Spring 2027): See notes
  • Merit Scholarships — Transfer Students (Fall 2026/Spring 2027): See notes

Renewal terms by tier

  • Merit Scholarships — First Time Freshmen (Fall 2026/Spring 2027)

    $16,000-$25,000

    Entry requirements: Tiered by high school GPA: 3.90-above = $25,000; 3.60-3.89 = $24,000; 3.30-3.59 = $23,000; 2.90-3.29 = $22,000; 2.50-2.89 = $19,000; 2.00-2.49 = $16,000 GPA

    To keep it: Policies page: 'Except for some Holy Family University scholarships, you must reapply for financial aid each academic year' and aid may be lost without satisfactory academic progress per the University catalog. No explicit merit-renewal GPA published.

    Source: https://www.holyfamily.edu/admissions-aid/financial-aid/merit-scholarships

  • Merit Scholarships — Transfer Students (Fall 2026/Spring 2027)

    $14,000-$19,000

    Entry requirements: Tiered by transfer GPA: 3.60-above = $19,000; 3.30-3.59 = $18,000; 3.00-3.29 = $16,000; 2.00-2.99 = $14,000 GPA

    To keep it: Same policies-page caveats as the freshman grid; no explicit merit-renewal GPA published.

    Source: https://www.holyfamily.edu/admissions-aid/financial-aid/merit-scholarships

How families lose this aid

  • Assuming all aid renews automatically.

    Policy: 'Except for some Holy Family University scholarships, you must reapply for financial aid each academic year,' and aid can be lost for failing satisfactory academic progress per the University catalog.

Renewal questions families ask

What GPA gets the top award?
A 3.90+ high school GPA earns $25,000/year for first-time freshmen entering Fall 2026/Spring 2027. The lowest published tier, 2.00-2.49, still earns $16,000.
Are SAT/ACT scores required for merit money?
The published grid is based on GPA only; no test-score cutoffs appear on the merit scholarships page.

How Holy Family compares across our verified dataset

  • 669 of 751 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.

    Holy Family 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 Holy Family’s own published materials.

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