Louisiana Christian· Renewal Rules
Keeping Louisiana Christian’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.
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
Louisiana Christian'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.
- LC Scholarship (automatic academic, ACT-based): 2.0 GPA
- Transfer Award (automatic, GPA-based): See notes
- Out of State Scholarship: See notes
- Smith Scholarship: See notes
- President's Leadership Scholarship: 2.5 GPA
- STEM to STEAM Scholarship: See notes
- C.S. Lewis Honors Program (honors scholarship): See notes
Renewal terms by tier
LC Scholarship (automatic academic, ACT-based)
$1,350-$2,750 per semesterEntry requirements: 20-22 = $1,350/sem; 23-26 = $1,550/sem; 27 and up = $2,750/sem ACT
To keep it: Renewal terms not stated on the scholarship grid. The university's general financial-aid eligibility requires maintaining a minimum 'C' average (2.0 GPA) for undergraduates, but the grid itself does not state a scholarship-specific renewal GPA.
Source: https://lcuniversity.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/scholarshipinfo.pdf
Transfer Award (automatic, GPA-based)
$1,500-$1,800 per semesterEntry requirements: 2.0-2.99 = $1,500/sem; 3.0 and up = $1,800/sem (transfer GPA) GPA
To keep it: Renewal terms not stated on the grid.
Source: https://lcuniversity.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/scholarshipinfo.pdf
Out of State Scholarship
$500 per semesterTo keep it: Renewal terms not stated.
Source: https://lcuniversity.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/scholarshipinfo.pdf
Smith Scholarship
Full tuition, room and board (four years)Entry requirements: Minimum 28 ACT ACT
To keep it: Awarded as a four-year full tuition, room and board scholarship.
President's Leadership Scholarship
$6,000 per yearEntry requirements: 3.0 GPA GPA · 23 ACT ACT
To keep it: Awardees must maintain a 2.5 GPA and meet other participatory requirements.
Source: https://lcuniversity.edu/presidents-leadership-award-2/
STEM to STEAM Scholarship
Full tuitionEntry requirements: 3.0 GPA GPA · Minimum ACT of 28 ACT
To keep it: Renewal terms not stated.
Source: https://lcuniversity.edu/admissions/grants-scholarships/
C.S. Lewis Honors Program (honors scholarship)
Amounts vary (not published)Entry requirements: ACT 28+, or ACT 26-27 with a written assessment ACT
To keep it: Renewal terms not published.
Source: https://lcuniversity.edu/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/c-s-lewis-honors-program/
How families lose this aid
- Searching for 'Louisiana College' and assuming the school closed.
Louisiana College in Pineville renamed to Louisiana Christian University in 2021. The institution is the same; many of its own legacy PDFs and third-party listings still say 'Louisiana College.' The current official domain is lcuniversity.edu.
- Reading the automatic LC Scholarship amounts as per-year.
The published LC Scholarship and Transfer Award figures ($1,350-$2,750 and $1,500-$1,800) are stated 'per semester' — roughly double them for an academic-year figure.
Renewal questions families ask
- What ACT score do I need for the biggest automatic award?
- On the published grid, an ACT of 27 or higher earns the top automatic LC Scholarship tier ($2,750 per semester). A 28+ ACT is the threshold to compete for the full-tuition Smith and STEM to STEAM awards and the C.S. Lewis Honors Program.
- What GPA keeps my President's Leadership Scholarship?
- The official page says awardees must maintain a 2.5 GPA and meet other participatory requirements.
How Louisiana Christian compares across our verified dataset
- 669 of 751 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Louisiana Christian 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 Louisiana Christian’s own published materials.