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Lebanon Valley scholarships and merit aid

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Posted price$76,398per year · 2026-2027 · cost of attendance
Yours?depends on the rules below

The short answer

Lebanon Valley awards automatic merit on admission. Lebanon Valley does not publish a GPA or test chart, so you cannot self-calculate the dollars.

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Published scholarships

These amounts and requirements come from the school’s own published pages. Open an award to see who qualifies and how to keep it.

Where does your student land?

  1. LVC Merit Scholarships Guarantee (Board of Trustees / Presidential / Dean's / Alfred Tennyson Sumner)$30,000-$36,000AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    LVC Merit Scholarships Guarantee (Board of Trustees / Presidential / Dean's / Alfred Tennyson Sumner)

    $30,000-$36,000

    Published rangeAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    Start with the award’s published eligibility.

    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for LVC Merit Scholarships Guarantee (Board of Trustees / Presidential / Dean's / Alfred Tennyson Sumner)

    Who qualifies

    Undergraduate student admitted for the 2026-27 academic year; based on high school achievement. The page publishes no GPA/test cutoffs for individual tiers.

    How to keep it

    Described as 'annual renewable scholarships per year' for 'up to 8 semesters of undergraduate coursework'; specific renewal GPA not stated on the page.

    Worth knowing

    Tier amounts 2026-27: Board of Trustees $36,000; Presidential $34,000; Dean's $32,000; Alfred Tennyson Sumner $30,000. No published stat grid determines which tier a student receives — do not invent one.

  2. John Bowman Allwein ScholarshipFull tuitionNot automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    John Bowman Allwein Scholarship

    Full tuition

    Published coverage or packageNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    Start with the award’s published eligibility.

    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for John Bowman Allwein Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    High-achieving, first-time first-year students; applications by invitation only; priority consideration with completed admission application by Nov. 15

    How to keep it

    Recipients must maintain a semester grade point average of 3.0 to retain the full-tuition scholarship and a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 to retain the $2,500 stipend.

    Worth knowing

    Also includes three $2,500 stipends for research/travel/study-abroad/internships. Full-tuition award holders may NOT receive other LVC aid, and outside scholarships may reduce the award.

  3. Departmental Scholarship$1,000-$5,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Departmental Scholarship

    $1,000-$5,000

    Published rangeNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    Start with the award’s published eligibility.

    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Departmental Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    Based on academic achievement in high school and potential to academically contribute to LVC; amount depends on financial need; students may only receive one Departmental Scholarship; music majors get the Mecham Music Scholarship instead

    How to keep it

    Per year for up to four years; renewal terms not stated beyond duration.

    Worth knowing

    Despite the merit framing, the amount 'depends on financial need' — a hybrid award.

Lights up against Lebanon Valley's published cutoffs. Not an award offer; confirm with the financial aid office. Award terms and residency rules change; some awards differ for in-state and out-of-state students. Always confirm at the school’s source page.

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The fine print

Outside awardsDifferent aid types are displaced differently

Lebanon Valley treats loans, work-study, and institutional grant under different rules. The same $5,000 outside award can land against any of them depending on category.

What makes Lebanon Valley different

LVC guarantees every admitted 2026-27 undergraduate a merit scholarship of at least $30,000/yr (up to $36,000/yr), plus an invitation-only full-tuition Allwein Scholarship.

Merit tiers31 based on grades or scores
Research checkedJul 2026By our research team

More than one award path

Separate the two paths.

Some awards use published academic thresholds. Others have different selection criteria. A score chart does not describe every award at this school.

  1. Match the published criteria

    Use all requirements together, including residency and the entering class.

  2. Check the application dates

    Confirm the current admission and scholarship deadlines directly with the school.

  3. Know what happens next year

    Check renewal, credit requirements and how other aid affects the award.

The fine print / Three questions to carry forward

Before you count on it.

Does it apply to us? Confirm the entering year, residency and every eligibility condition.

Can we keep it? Check renewal GPA, credits and how long the award lasts.

Can we combine it? Ask how outside scholarships and other school awards change the offer.

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What families often miss

  1. The page is explicit: full-tuition award holders 'may not receive other LVC aid in addition to the full-tuition award. In addition, scholarships and grants from outside sources may reduce the full-tuition award.' Full tuition also does not cover the ~$22,000 of non-tuition costs in the $76,398 residential budget.

  2. Need-based LVC grants and scholarships 'will be reduced if the total amount of private scholarships plus LVC grants and scholarships exceeds the total amount of LVC tuition and fees' — an effective tuition-and-fees cap that displaces LVC need-based grants first.

  3. Both range $1,000-$5,000 'depending on financial need,' and the Mecham requires the FAFSA. A family that skips the FAFSA may get less (or nothing) from these.

  4. The Apollo, Competitive Ensemble, and Honors Ensemble Scholarships explicitly cannot be combined with one another, and each requires four years of ensemble/production participation to keep — dropping the ensemble means losing the award.

  5. The $1,000/yr Alumni Referral Award 'must be submitted prior to the student receiving admission to LVC' — late referrals get nothing.

  6. These awards cap the Departmental Scholarship at $2,500 — and if the Departmental award is under $2,500, it is rescinded entirely.

  7. FAFSA is not required for merit-only consideration, but 'these families must notify the Financial Aid Office that they do not plan to apply for need-based aid' — silence can hold up the merit award.

  8. Retention is measured by SEMESTER GPA (3.0) for the full-tuition portion — one bad semester risks the scholarship, a stricter standard than the cumulative-GPA rules most schools use.

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Who this school may work for

Any admitted student wins here — merit is guaranteed at $30,000+ — but the biggest upside goes to top students invited to the full-tuition Allwein competition and to musicians/scientists who layer the niche awards.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $76,398 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Lebanon Valley, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.

Average annual net price by family income at Lebanon Valley, academic year 2021-22
Family incomeAverage net price paid
$0–$30,000$20,788
$30,001–$48,000$21,773
$48,001–$75,000$22,266
$75,001–$110,000$26,236
$110,001+$31,533
All income levels (average)$26,979

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23
$52,080
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22
$26,979

That works out to roughly a 59% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $66,497 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort
65%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort
83%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers
$27,000 (~$286/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21)
$62,621
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22
31%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22
71%
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If your student brings another scholarship

Full-tuition award holders (Allwein, Tuition Exchange, Tuition Remission) cannot receive any other LVC aid, and outside scholarships may reduce the full-tuition award. For everyone else, need-based LVC grants are reduced when private scholarships plus LVC aid exceed total LVC tuition and fees — a tuition-and-fees cap.

Two explicit rules: (1) full-tuition awards are exclusive of other LVC aid and reducible by outside scholarships; (2) need-based LVC grants/scholarships are reduced if total private scholarships + LVC grants/scholarships exceed total LVC tuition and fees. Merit scholarships themselves are not stated to be reduced by outside awards below that cap. Several niche awards carry their own anti-stacking rules (music ensemble awards not stackable with each other; Graham/O'Donnell awards cap the Departmental Scholarship at $2,500 or rescind it).

Source

Other Lebanon Valley scholarships worth checking

These awards can be harder to find. Each one has its own rules.

Amount$2,500 per year (max $10,000 over four years)EligibilityChildren of LVC graduates; full-time, first bachelor's degree; no application required

Only one award even if both parents are graduates.

Source

Amount$1,000 per year for up to four yearsEligibilityHigh school students referred by LVC alumni (not their own children)

The referral form must be submitted PRIOR to the student receiving admission to LVC.

Source

Amount$2,500 per year for up to four years ($10,000 total)EligibilityHershey Theatre Apollo Award nominees/winners; must participate in an LVC Music Theatre production every year

Cannot be combined with the Competitive Ensemble or Honors Ensemble Scholarships.

Source

Amount$2,500 per year for up to four yearsEligibilityDistrict/regional/state competitive ensemble participants (Band, Choir, Orchestra), any major; must enroll in a large LVC ensemble all four years

Not stackable with the Honors Ensemble Scholarship.

Source

Amount$2,500 per year for up to four yearsEligibilityParticipants in LVC Honors Band/Choir/Orchestra; must participate in a large ensemble every semester for four years

Not stackable with the Competitive Ensemble Scholarship.

Source

Amount$1,500 per year for up to four yearsEligibilitySeven new recipients per year based on musical merit; must remain a music major

Audition required by Feb. 15 each year.

Source

Amount$1,000-$5,000 per year for up to four yearsEligibilityProspective music majors; audition by Feb. 15; FAFSA required; amount depends on financial need

Students may receive the Mecham OR the Departmental Scholarship, not both.

Source

Amount$5,000 per year for up to four yearsEligibilityAdmitted biology majors with 3.0+ GPA overall and in biology courses; competitive application with essay

Renewal requires 3.0 cumulative and major GPA and staying a Biology major. Caps any Departmental Scholarship at $2,500 (rescinded if under $2,500).

Source

Amount$5,000 per year for up to four yearsEligibilityAdmitted students planning a physics/engineering(physics track)/physics-secondary-ed major; top 10% of class or strong record; application with résumé

Renewal: 3.0 GPA and remain a Physics major. Caps Departmental Scholarship at $2,500 (rescinded if under $2,500).

Source

Amount$1,250 per year for up to four yearsEligibilityAdmitted English or Creative Writing majors; application with résumé by March 1

Renewal: 3.0 GPA and remain in English or Creative Writing.

Source

Amount$2,500 per year for up to four years (two awarded per year)EligibilityProspective Creative Writing majors; portfolio (up to 10 pages) due March 1; decisions by March 15

If a Departmental Scholarship is $2,500+, it is reduced by $1,250; under $2,500, no reduction.

Source

Amount$2,500 per year (up to $10,000 total)EligibilityStudent-athletes ranked Level 1 or 2 (of four levels) after tryout/interview; FAFSA required

Source

Amount$500-$1,000 annually for up to four yearsEligibilityUM Church members of at least one year demonstrating commitment; financial need considered

Fall-term applications open January, close March 1; funds limited.

Source

Amount$1,000-$5,000 per year for up to four years (need-based)EligibilityResidents of the Cocalico School District accepted full-time; FAFSA priority deadline February 15; Cocalico HS grads automatically considered

Source

Amount25% of full-time undergraduate tuitionEligibilityAlumni with an LVC bachelor's degree; no application necessary

Does not apply to overload charges.

Source

Lebanon Valley merit aid FAQ

  • Is the merit scholarship guaranteed, and do I need a separate application?

    Yes — 'apply, get accepted, and receive one of four guaranteed scholarships!' Every undergraduate admitted for 2026-27 gets at least $30,000/yr (up to $36,000/yr) for up to 8 semesters. No separate scholarship application is described.

  • What is the deadline for the Allwein full-tuition scholarship?

    Applications are by invitation only; LVC recommends submitting a completed admission application by Nov. 15 for priority consideration.

  • What are the niche-award deadlines?

    Carmean music auditions and Mecham auditions: Feb. 15. O'Donnell Literature application and Creative Writing Fellows portfolio: March 1. Music Lessons Scholarship application: April 30. United Methodist scholarships: open January, close March 1. Lutz Scholarship FAFSA priority: February 15.

  • Do I need the FAFSA to get merit aid?

    No — 'the FAFSA is not required for students who wish to be considered exclusively for an institutional merit scholarship and no other aid,' but the family must notify the Financial Aid Office that they will not apply for need-based aid.

  • What is the total cost of attendance?

    For 2026-27, the published residential student budget totals $76,398 (tuition $54,070, fees $1,580, housing $7,550, food $9,330, plus books, transportation, personal, and loan fees).

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How Lebanon Valley compares

  • 32 of 749 verified schools in our dataset use mixed displacement.

    Lebanon Valley is in the small minority (32 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.

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

    Lebanon Valley is one of them. The cohort minority (84 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 claim is checked against Lebanon Valley’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

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