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Lehigh award rules

Will the scholarship last four years at Lehigh?

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 20261 month ago· PT

The short answer

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

Renewal risk profile

Lehigh'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.

  • Founder's and Trustees' Scholarships: 3.0 GPA
  • Dean's Scholarship: 3.0 GPA
  • Soaring Together Scholarship: See notes
  • National Merit Scholarship: See notes

Renewal terms by tier

How families lose this aid

  • Missing the performing arts scholarship deadlines in January and February.

    Music and choral scholarships have a January 10 deadline, and theatre scholarships close February 10. These are available to students of any major and are stackable with academic merit awards. Many families focus only on the automatic merit consideration and miss thousands in arts funding their student could have earned.

Renewal questions families ask

What GPA does my student need to keep their Lehigh merit scholarship?
The Founder's/Trustees' and Dean's Scholarships require a minimum 3.0 GPA and full-time enrollment. Performing arts and marching scholarships require a 2.8 GPA minimum. The Phi Theta Kappa transfer scholarship also requires 2.8. All academic merit awards are renewable for up to 8 semesters (10 for five-year Arts/Engineering programs).

Rules that bite at Lehigh

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

  • cliffOne ACT point can move the award by +$9,710/yr ($34,710 - $25,000)

    Lehigh publishes a tier ladder where crossing Top Dean's → half-tuition Founder's/Trustees' changes the marginal value by +$9,710/yr ($34,710 - $25,000). First step out of the Dean's band into the Founder's/Trustees' tier.

  • renewalFounder's and Trustees' Scholarships: renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out

    Renewable for up to 8 semesters (10 for five-year Arts/Engineering programs). Requires minimum 3.0 GPA and full-time enrollment. A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.

How Lehigh compares across our verified dataset

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

    Lehigh 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.

  • 63 of 749 verified schools publish a marginal-value cliff table we can quantify.

    Lehigh is one of them. Most schools won't tell families what one ACT point is actually worth. At the schools that do, a strategic retake is sometimes mathematically more valuable than test-optional positioning.

  • 132 of 749 verified schools publish a dedicated National Merit Finalist package.

    Lehigh is one of them. NMF packages typically carry their own stacking and renewal carve-outs separate from the standard automatic merit ladder; confirm those before assuming the headline NMF value is final.

Sources used on this page

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

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