How much are the merit scholarships?

Five tiers for entering first-year day students: Gateway $15,000/yr (typically 1000 SAT/19 ACT, 2.5–2.9 GPA); Hilltop $16,000 (1070/21, 3.2+); Tower $17,000 (1140/23, 3.25–3.49 recalculated); Founders $18,500 (1180/24, 3.5–3.74); Fellows $20,000 (1300/27, 3.75–4.0). Scholarships cannot be combined or stacked.

What GPA do I need to keep my scholarship?

Gateway and Hilltop renew with a 2.0+ college GPA; Tower, Founders, and Fellows with 2.5+; the Presidential Learning Scholarship with 3.25+.

LaGrange· Renewal Rules

Keeping LaGrange’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: 7 of 7
One-time tiers: 0
Tiers with published renewal terms: 7
Renewal risk profile: low

Renewal risk profile

LaGrange'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.

Gateway Scholarship: See notes
Hilltop Scholarship: See notes
Tower Scholarship: See notes
Founders Scholarship: See notes
Fellows Scholarship: See notes
The Presidential Learning Scholarship: See notes
International Presidential Scholarship: See notes

Renewal terms by tier

Gateway Scholarship
$15,000
Entry requirements: Cumulative high school GPA of 2.5–2.9 (typical recipient profile) GPA · 1000 or higher EBRW+Math (typical) SAT · 19 or higher (typical) ACT
To keep it: Renewable with a 2.0 or better college GPA.
Source: https://www.lagrange.edu/ADMISSIONS/cost-and-aid/scholarships.html
Hilltop Scholarship
$16,000
Entry requirements: Cumulative high school GPA of 3.2 or higher (typical) GPA · 1070 or higher EBRW+Math (typical) SAT · 21 or higher (typical) ACT
To keep it: Renewable with 2.0 or better college GPA.
Source: https://www.lagrange.edu/ADMISSIONS/cost-and-aid/scholarships.html
Tower Scholarship
$17,000
Entry requirements: Recalculated high school GPA of 3.25–3.49 (typical; LaGrange recalculates GPA from college-prep subjects, grades 9-12) GPA · 1140 or higher EBRW+Math (typical) SAT · 23 or higher (typical) ACT
To keep it: Renewable with 2.5 or better college GPA.
Source: https://www.lagrange.edu/ADMISSIONS/cost-and-aid/scholarships.html
Founders Scholarship
$18,500
Entry requirements: Recalculated high school GPA of 3.5–3.74 (typical) GPA · 1180 or higher EBRW+Math (typical) SAT · 24 or higher (typical) ACT
To keep it: Renewable with 2.5 or better college GPA.
Source: https://www.lagrange.edu/ADMISSIONS/cost-and-aid/scholarships.html
Fellows Scholarship
$20,000
Entry requirements: Recalculated high school GPA of 3.75–4.0 (typical) GPA · 1300 or higher EBRW+Math (typical) SAT · 27 or higher (typical) ACT
To keep it: Renewable with a 2.5 or better college GPA.
Source: https://www.lagrange.edu/ADMISSIONS/cost-and-aid/scholarships.html
The Presidential Learning Scholarship
Full tuition
Entry requirements: Must qualify for a Founders or Fellows Scholarship to be invited to compete GPA
To keep it: Renewable with a 3.25 or better college GPA. Supersedes all other LaGrange College scholarships and aid.
Source: https://www.lagrange.edu/ADMISSIONS/cost-and-aid/scholarships.html
International Presidential Scholarship
Full tuition, room and board
Entry requirements: Academic GPA equivalent to a 3.64 on a US 4.0 grading scale GPA
To keep it: Renewal terms not stated on the page.
Source: https://www.lagrange.edu/ADMISSIONS/cost-and-aid/scholarships.html

How families lose this aid

Predicting your tier from your school-reported weighted GPA.
For the upper tiers LaGrange recalculates GPA 'based on college prep subjects earned in grades 9 through 12' — electives and weighting are excluded, which can drop students below the 3.5/3.7/3.9 profile lines.
Missing the renewal-GPA differences between tiers.
Gateway and Hilltop renew at a 2.0 college GPA, but Tower, Founders, and Fellows require 2.5, and the Presidential scholarships require 3.25 — the bigger the award, the higher the cliff.
Treating the published GPA/test numbers as guaranteed automatic cutoffs.
Each tier describes what recipients 'typically' have — the page does not promise the award automatically at those stats, and students admitted with academic conditions are excluded entirely.

Renewal questions families ask

How much are the merit scholarships?: Five tiers for entering first-year day students: Gateway $15,000/yr (typically 1000 SAT/19 ACT, 2.5–2.9 GPA); Hilltop $16,000 (1070/21, 3.2+); Tower $17,000 (1140/23, 3.25–3.49 recalculated); Founders $18,500 (1180/24, 3.5–3.74); Fellows $20,000 (1300/27, 3.75–4.0). Scholarships cannot be combined or stacked.
What GPA do I need to keep my scholarship?: Gateway and Hilltop renew with a 2.0+ college GPA; Tower, Founders, and Fellows with 2.5+; the Presidential Learning Scholarship with 3.25+.

How LaGrange compares across our verified dataset

669 of 751 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
LaGrange 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 LaGrange’s own published materials.

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