Marist (rebranded Marist University in 2025) automatically considers every admit for one of two holistic academic merit tiers — Presidential ($22,000-$30,000) or Marist Scholarship ($10,000-$20,000) — but only ONE merit award per student and no published GPA/test grid guarantees an amount.
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Rules that bite at Marist
The trip wires we'd flag in a custom playbook. Each is derived from Marist's own published policy, not generic advice.
displacementNo published displacement order
Marist's policy doesn't specify whether outside scholarships hit loans, grants, or only the COA ceiling. Get a written aid-office answer before chasing private awards.
Common merit-aid mistakes at Marist
Marist explicitly awards no more than ONE merit scholarship per student — the two academic tiers are mutually exclusive.
Marist states there are no set 'numbers' (GPA, class rank) that guarantee a scholarship or amount; awards are discretionary and the committee recalculates GPA using only core subjects.
After the second semester of the first year, keeping the merit award requires a 2.850 cumulative GPA, maintained across all four years of full-time study.
The bare marist.edu/financial-aid path redirects to an HEOP-program subpage, not a general aid landing — use the /financial-aid/freshman/types-of-aid hub instead.
Who this school is for
A strong, rigorous-curriculum applicant who wants automatic consideration (no extra application) and can hold a 2.850 GPA — knowing the committee decides amounts holistically, there's no stats grid, and only one merit award is given.
Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $76,865 for 2026-2027. Source
Institutional merit aid tiers
Every tier below is sourced to the school’s own published financial aid pages. Renewal terms apply only if the student maintains the stated GPA.
$22,000-$30,000
Presidential Scholarship (Academic Merit)
ApplicationRenewable
GPA
Superior academic performance across the full high school career; committee recalculates GPA using core subjects (English, Math, History/Social Studies, Science, Foreign Language)
Requirements & details+
Eligibility
Automatic consideration upon acceptance; no separate application. There are no set 'numbers' (GPA/class rank) that guarantee a scholarship or amount.
Renewal terms
Renewable for four years; after the second semester of the first year, renewal is contingent on a 2.850 cumulative GPA. Awarded for fall and spring terms only.
Notes
Top of the two academic merit tiers, effective Fall 2026. Discretionary committee award; financial need not required.
No more than one merit-based award is given to each student. The Dollars for Scholars program matches up to $500 per recipient (Marist commits a maximum $10,000 pool, first-come, first-served).
The page states only one merit award per student and is silent on how private OUTSIDE scholarships displace institutional aid, except for the Dollars for Scholars $500 match. It is unclear whether the talent (Music/Theatre) and Alumni awards count against the one-merit rule.
Is there a separate scholarship application or deadline?
No separate application for the academic merit scholarships — you are automatically considered upon applying for admission. Talent awards (Fusco Music, Theatre) require a separate audition/application, and PTK transfers must show proof of membership.
Can I receive more than one merit scholarship?
No — no more than one merit scholarship is awarded to each student.
What is the cost of attendance?
First-year resident estimated COA is $76,865 (tuition $50,760; activity fee $420; health services $520; orientation $200; housing $12,430; food $7,700; books $2,425; transportation $1,120; personal $1,200; loan fees $90). Commuter-at-home is $63,385 and off-campus is $79,385.
How Marist compares across our verified dataset
61 of 272 verified schools in our dataset use unclear or unpublished displacement.
Marist is in a recognizable cluster (61 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.
61 of 272 verified schools publish no clear displacement order.
Marist is one of them. The right move is the aid-office email script below, not a guess.
247 of 272 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Marist 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 claim is checked against Marist’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.
