What's the deadline for the Lovell Presidential Scholarship?

February 1. The Lovell is Marquette's only full-ride merit award — covering tuition, fees, housing, and food — with up to four available per entering class. Students must be admitted to Marquette before they can apply, and the program looks for a 3.8 GPA minimum and demonstrated community service.

Is the Père Marquette Award renewable for four years?

Yes. Marquette states the award 'is renewable each semester of a recipient's four-year (eight-semester) undergraduate program, provided the recipient remains full time in good academic standing with their respective college.' Varsity athletes and second-bachelor's students are not eligible.

Marquette award rules

Will the scholarship last four years at Marquette?

We pulled the school’s grade, credit, and time limits into one place so you can see what it takes to keep the award.

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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.

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At a glance

Renewable tiers: 4 of 4
One-time tiers: 0
Tiers with published renewal terms: 3
Renewal risk profile: low

Renewal risk profile

Marquette'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.

Père Marquette Award: Full-time enrollment
Michael R. Lovell Presidential Scholarship: See notes
Burke Scholars Program: See notes

Renewal terms by tier

Père Marquette Award
Tier-based scholarship; amount not publicly listed (Marquette directs families to a scholarship estimator).
To keep it: Renewable each semester of a four-year (eight-semester) program as long as the recipient remains full-time and in good academic standing within their college.
Source: https://www.marquette.edu/tuition-financial-aid/scholarship-pere-marquette.php
Michael R. Lovell Presidential Scholarship
Full ride — tuition, fees, housing, and food (up to 4 awards available)
Entry requirements: Preferred minimum 3.8 GPA GPA
To keep it: Renewable through the standard four-year undergraduate program subject to maintaining program requirements.
Source: https://www.marquette.edu/tuition-financial-aid/lovell-scholars.php
Burke Scholars Program
Service-leadership scholarship paired with the Père Marquette Award; specific dollar enhancement not publicly listed.
To keep it: Renewable through participation in the Burke Scholars cohort program.
Source: https://www.marquette.edu/tuition-financial-aid/scholarships-overview.php

How families lose this aid

Assuming the Père Marquette Award has a published GPA or test-score ladder.
Marquette delivers Père Marquette dollar amounts through an applicant-specific scholarship estimator rather than a published stat-banded ladder like Alabama or Ole Miss. Families cannot reverse-engineer what raising an ACT one point will produce.

Renewal questions families ask

What's the deadline for the Lovell Presidential Scholarship?: February 1. The Lovell is Marquette's only full-ride merit award — covering tuition, fees, housing, and food — with up to four available per entering class. Students must be admitted to Marquette before they can apply, and the program looks for a 3.8 GPA minimum and demonstrated community service.
Is the Père Marquette Award renewable for four years?: Yes. Marquette states the award 'is renewable each semester of a recipient's four-year (eight-semester) undergraduate program, provided the recipient remains full time in good academic standing with their respective college.' Varsity athletes and second-bachelor's students are not eligible.

Rules that bite at Marquette

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

renewalPère Marquette Award: renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out
Renewable each semester of a four-year (eight-semester) program as long as the recipient remains full-time and in good academic standing within their college. A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.

How Marquette compares across our verified dataset

667 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Marquette 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.
132 of 749 verified schools publish a dedicated National Merit Finalist package.
Marquette 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 Marquette’s own published materials.