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Keeping Lipscomb’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 20261 day ago· HX-AUTO

At a glance

Renewable tiers
5 of 7
One-time tiers
2
Tiers with published renewal terms
5
Renewal risk profile
low

Renewal risk profile

Lipscomb'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.

  • Community College Transfer Scholarship: See notes
  • Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship: See notes
  • Scout Award: See notes
  • Transfer Pathways Scholarship: 2.5 GPA
  • Christian Education Scholarship: See notes

Renewal terms by tier

Renewal questions families ask

What is the deadline for Transfer Trustee Scholarship Deadline Fall2026?
The Fall 2026 Transfer Trustee Scholarship application opens November 1, 2025 and closes March 1, 2026. Students must be admitted prior to applying.

How Lipscomb compares across our verified dataset

  • 178 of 203 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.

    Lipscomb is one of them. The cohort minority (25 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 Lipscomb’s own published materials.

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