How do I keep my scholarship each year?

Awards are renewable for up to eight undergraduate semesters as long as you maintain the required GPA (and, per the transfer page, full-time enrollment). University merit awards renew 'regardless of EFC.' The specific renewal GPA is not published on the website — check your merit award letter or ask the Financial Aid Office (finaid@marywood.edu, 570-348-6225).

Marywood· Renewal Rules

Keeping Marywood’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.

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At a glance

Renewable tiers: 9 of 9
One-time tiers: 0
Tiers with published renewal terms: 9
Renewal risk profile: low

Renewal risk profile

Marywood'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.

President's Scholarship: See notes
Trustees' Scholarship: See notes
Founder's Scholarship: See notes
Deans' Scholarship: See notes
Success Award: See notes
Opportunity Award: See notes
Undergraduate Transfer Student University-funded Scholarships (President's through Opportunity): Full-time enrollment
Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship: See notes
Talent Award: Full-time enrollment

Renewal terms by tier

President's Scholarship
$26,000
To keep it: Renewable for up to eight (8) undergraduate semesters, as long as students maintain the required GPA (the specific GPA value is not published on the website).
Source: https://www.marywood.edu/affordability/types-of-aid/
Trustees' Scholarship
$25,000
To keep it: Renewable for up to eight (8) undergraduate semesters, as long as students maintain the required GPA (specific GPA value not published).
Source: https://www.marywood.edu/affordability/types-of-aid/
Founder's Scholarship
$24,000
To keep it: Renewable for up to eight (8) undergraduate semesters, as long as students maintain the required GPA (specific GPA value not published).
Source: https://www.marywood.edu/affordability/types-of-aid/
Deans' Scholarship
$22,000
To keep it: Renewable for up to eight (8) undergraduate semesters, as long as students maintain the required GPA (specific GPA value not published).
Source: https://www.marywood.edu/affordability/types-of-aid/
Success Award
$21,000
To keep it: Renewable for up to eight (8) undergraduate semesters, as long as students maintain the required GPA (specific GPA value not published).
Source: https://www.marywood.edu/affordability/types-of-aid/
Opportunity Award
$19,000
To keep it: Renewable for up to eight (8) undergraduate semesters, as long as students maintain the required GPA (specific GPA value not published).
Source: https://www.marywood.edu/affordability/types-of-aid/
Undergraduate Transfer Student University-funded Scholarships (President's through Opportunity)
$19,000-$26,000
To keep it: Renewable for up to 8 undergraduate semesters as long as students maintain the required GPA and full-time enrollment.
Source: https://www.marywood.edu/affordability/types-of-aid/transfer
Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship
$1,500
Entry requirements: 3.50 minimum transfer QPA GPA
To keep it: This scholarship is renewed if the recipient maintains a minimum of a 3.00 cumulative QPA at Marywood University. Part-time students are not eligible.
Source: https://www.marywood.edu/affordability/types-of-aid/transfer
Talent Award
Amount not published
To keep it: Once awarded, they are renewable for up to eight semesters of full-time undergraduate study. If a Talent Award recipient changes his/her major to that of one outside of art or music, the Talent Award will be rescinded.
Source: https://www.marywood.edu/affordability/types-of-aid/

How families lose this aid

Assuming the published merit amounts come with published GPA/SAT cutoffs you can pre-qualify against.
Marywood publishes only the award names and amounts ($19,000-$26,000). The site says awards 'are based on the student's academic portfolio presented at the time of admission' — no GPA/test grid exists on the website, so you cannot know your tier until your acceptance letter arrives.
Not knowing the GPA you must keep to renew your scholarship.
Every page says awards renew 'as long as students maintain the required GPA,' but the required value is never published on the website (a 2024-25 admissions PDF says the minimum QPA is 'specified in the merit award letter'). Families must read the award letter or ask the aid office for the exact renewal QPA.
Missing the December 1 scholarship-consideration deadline.
The Types of Financial Aid page states 'Typical deadline for consideration is December 1st' for scholarships awarded at the time of acceptance. Applying later may forfeit merit consideration.
Counting on more than 8 semesters of merit aid — especially in 5- to 6-year bachelor's-to-master's programs.
Merit awards last a maximum of eight undergraduate semesters, and in combined bachelor's-to-master's programs the merit award stops once the student 'is deemed to have completed his/her Bachelor's degree' — which for some programs is as early as 7 semesters.
Dropping below full-time enrollment.
Transfer-page language ties renewal to 'the required GPA and full-time enrollment,' part-time students are ineligible for merit awards or undergraduate university need-based grants, and the Sibling Award 'is negated' if either sibling drops below full-time.
Skipping the FAFSA (or the Financial Aid Renewal form) because the merit award is guaranteed.
Merit awards renew 'regardless of EFC,' but applying for aid is an annual process: students who do not file a FAFSA but hold an undergraduate merit award 'should complete the Financial Aid Renewal form each year.'

Renewal questions families ask

How do I keep my scholarship each year?: Awards are renewable for up to eight undergraduate semesters as long as you maintain the required GPA (and, per the transfer page, full-time enrollment). University merit awards renew 'regardless of EFC.' The specific renewal GPA is not published on the website — check your merit award letter or ask the Financial Aid Office (finaid@marywood.edu, 570-348-6225).

Rules that bite at Marywood

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

renewalUndergraduate Transfer Student University-funded Scholarships (President's through Opportunity): renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out
Renewable for up to 8 undergraduate semesters as long as students maintain the required GPA and full-time enrollment. A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.

How Marywood compares across our verified dataset

669 of 751 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Marywood 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 Marywood’s own published materials.