Loyola Marymount· Renewal Rules
Keeping Loyola Marymount’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
- 10 of 10
- One-time tiers
- 0
- Tiers with published renewal terms
- 10
- Renewal risk profile
- moderate
Renewal risk profile
Loyola Marymount'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.
- Presidential Scholarship: 3.0 GPA
- Arrupe Scholarship: 3.0 GPA
- LMU Excellence Scholarship: 3.0 GPA
- Chancellor's Annual Scholarship: 3.0 GPA
- Leavey Family Foundation Scholarship: 3.2 GPA
- University Hill Foundation Scholarship: 3.2 GPA
- Jesuit and Marymount High School Scholarship: 3.0 GPA
- Loyola High School Scholarship: 3.0 GPA
- Jesuit Community Scholarship: 3.0 GPA
- LMU Global Scholarship: 3.0 GPA
Renewal terms by tier
Presidential Scholarship
Not publicly disclosed by LMUEntry requirements: Renewal: 3.0 cumulative GPA
To keep it: Renewal is automatic up to 4 years/8 semesters with a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA
Source: https://financialaid.lmu.edu/prospectivestudents/scholarships/
Arrupe Scholarship
Not publicly disclosed by LMUEntry requirements: Renewal: 3.0 cumulative GPA
To keep it: Renewal is automatic up to 4 years/8 semesters with a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA
Source: https://financialaid.lmu.edu/prospectivestudents/scholarships/
LMU Excellence Scholarship
Not publicly disclosed by LMUEntry requirements: Renewal: 3.0 cumulative GPA
To keep it: Renewal is automatic up to 4 years/8 semesters with a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA
Source: https://financialaid.lmu.edu/prospectivestudents/scholarships/
Chancellor's Annual Scholarship
Not publicly disclosed by LMUEntry requirements: Renewal: 3.0 cumulative GPA
To keep it: Renewal is automatic up to 4 years/8 semesters with a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA
Source: https://financialaid.lmu.edu/prospectivestudents/scholarships/
Leavey Family Foundation Scholarship
Not publicly disclosed by LMUEntry requirements: Renewal: 3.2 cumulative GPA
To keep it: Renewal requires a minimum 3.2 cumulative GPA, up to 4 years/8 semesters
Source: https://financialaid.lmu.edu/prospectivestudents/scholarships/
University Hill Foundation Scholarship
Not publicly disclosed by LMUEntry requirements: Renewal: 3.2 cumulative GPA
To keep it: Renewal requires a minimum 3.2 cumulative GPA, up to 4 years/8 semesters
Source: https://financialaid.lmu.edu/prospectivestudents/scholarships/
Jesuit and Marymount High School Scholarship
Not publicly disclosed by LMUEntry requirements: Renewal: 3.0 cumulative GPA
To keep it: Renewal is automatic up to 4 years/8 semesters with a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA
Source: https://financialaid.lmu.edu/prospectivestudents/scholarships/
Loyola High School Scholarship
Not publicly disclosed by LMUEntry requirements: Renewal: 3.0 cumulative GPA
To keep it: Renewal is automatic up to 4 years/8 semesters with a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA
Source: https://financialaid.lmu.edu/prospectivestudents/scholarships/
Jesuit Community Scholarship
Not publicly disclosed by LMUEntry requirements: Renewal: 3.0 cumulative GPA
To keep it: Renewal is automatic up to 4 years/8 semesters with a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA
Source: https://financialaid.lmu.edu/prospectivestudents/scholarships/
LMU Global Scholarship
Not publicly disclosed by LMUEntry requirements: Renewal: 3.0 cumulative GPA
To keep it: Renewal is automatic up to 4 years/8 semesters with a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA
Source: https://financialaid.lmu.edu/prospectivestudents/scholarships/
How families lose this aid
- Assuming LMU's merit aid is predictable from stats.
Unlike Alabama or Ole Miss, LMU publishes no GPA/test cutoffs and no dollar amounts for any of its ten named scholarships. Award size is decided by the admissions committee and is not knowable until the offer letter arrives. Modeling an LMU net cost on a forum-sourced 'Presidential = $25k' anchor can produce a mid-five-figure miss either direction.
- Stacking outside scholarships without disclosing them at award time.
LMU's policy is explicit: outside resources that cover tuition and fees and were not disclosed when the offer was built will cause the LMU Grant to be reduced or canceled. Families winning local or national scholarships should report them before the offer is finalized so LMU has a chance to apply them against unmet need, loans, or work-study first — though even then, grant-first displacement is the documented default for tuition-fee-level overlap.
- Confusing the SAP renewal GPA with the merit renewal GPA.
LMU's federal-aid Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) floor is a 2.0 cumulative GPA and 67% completion rate. The named merit scholarships require a 3.0 cumulative GPA (3.2 for the Leavey and University Hill awards) to renew. A student can pass SAP, keep federal aid, and still lose a five-figure LMU scholarship in the same semester.
Renewal questions families ask
- What GPA do I need to keep my LMU merit scholarship?
- Most LMU merit awards require a 3.0 cumulative GPA for renewal, up to 4 years or 8 semesters. The Leavey Family Foundation Scholarship and University Hill Foundation Scholarship require a 3.2 cumulative GPA. These thresholds are stricter than the 2.0 cumulative GPA / 67% completion rule that governs federal aid Satisfactory Academic Progress.
- When should I submit the FAFSA for LMU?
- For Fall 2026 entry, LMU's FAFSA deadlines mirror the admission plan: November 1, 2025 for Early Decision; January 10, 2026 for Early Action and Early Decision II; February 1, 2026 for Regular Decision. California residents must also submit the Cal Grant GPA Verification Form by California's March 2, 2026 deadline.
How Loyola Marymount compares across our verified dataset
- 133 of 150 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Loyola Marymount is one of them. The cohort minority (17 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 Loyola Marymount’s own published materials.
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