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Keeping Kenyon’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 Jul 202615 days ago· C2-2

At a glance

Renewable tiers
4 of 4
One-time tiers
0
Tiers with published renewal terms
4
Renewal risk profile
low

Renewal risk profile

Kenyon'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.

  • Kenyon Merit Scholarship: 2.0 GPA
  • Writing Scholarship: See notes
  • Music Scholarship: See notes
  • Studio Art Scholarship: See notes

Renewal terms by tier

How families lose this aid

  • Treating the STEM Scholarship as extra cash on top of need-based aid.

    The STEM Scholarship does not add a flat dollar award; it eliminates the loan and work-study (self-help) portion of an existing need-based package for four years. It improves the composition of your aid, not the headline total.

Renewal questions families ask

What does it take to keep a Kenyon merit scholarship?
Renewal is generous: the award renews for up to eight semesters as long as you maintain at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA by the end of your second academic year.

How Kenyon compares across our verified dataset

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

    Kenyon 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.

Sources used on this page

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

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