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Keeping Point Loma Nazarene’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.

Verified Jun 20268 days ago· CC

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

Point Loma Nazarene'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.

  • President's Gold Scholarship: Full-time enrollment
  • President's Green Scholarship: Full-time enrollment
  • Trustee's Scholarship: Full-time enrollment
  • Provost's Scholarship: Full-time enrollment
  • Dean's Scholarship: Full-time enrollment
  • Bresee Scholarship: Full-time enrollment
  • Transfer Merit Scholarship (Tier 1): Full-time enrollment
  • Transfer Merit Scholarship (Tier 2): Full-time enrollment
  • Transfer Merit Scholarship (Tier 3): Full-time enrollment
  • Performance-Based Scholarships (Athletic, Music, Forensics): See notes

Renewal terms by tier

How families lose this aid

  • Assuming you only need to clear one threshold.

    Each tier requires meeting 'any 2 of 3 criteria' — unweighted GPA, weighted GPA, and SAT/ACT. Hitting just the GPA or just the test score is not enough; you must satisfy two of the three at that tier.

  • Treating the scholarship as a guaranteed four years no matter what.

    Awards are renewable up to eight (8) semesters but require continuous full-time enrollment (12+ units/semester) and a minimum cumulative GPA; 'Once lost, an academic scholarship cannot be regained.'

Renewal questions families ask

How do I qualify for a specific tier?
Each tier lists three criteria (unweighted HS GPA, weighted HS GPA, and SAT/ACT) and you must 'meet any 2 of 3 criteria to qualify.' For example, President's Gold ($24,000) requires any two of: unweighted GPA ≥ 3.95, weighted GPA ≥ 4.40, SAT ≥ 1430 or ACT ≥ 32.
How long does the scholarship last and what's required to renew?
Academic scholarships start as a two-year award and can be received for a maximum of eight (8) semesters. You must stay enrolled full time (12+ units/semester) and maintain the required cumulative GPA; once lost, the scholarship cannot be regained. Confirm the exact renewal GPA for your tier with Student Financial Services.

Rules that bite at Point Loma Nazarene

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

  • renewalPresident's Gold Scholarship: renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out

    Academic scholarships are offered for an initial two-year period and, subject to maintaining renewal criteria, can be received for a maximum of eight (8) semesters. Continuous full-time enrollment (12+ units/semester) is required, and renewal is based on cumulative GPA; once lost, an academic scholarship cannot be regained. The page publishes a per-tier renewal-GPA grid; the exact renewal cumulative GPA for this tier should be confirmed (see Section C). A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.

How Point Loma Nazarene compares across our verified dataset

  • 669 of 751 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.

    Point Loma Nazarene 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 Point Loma Nazarene’s own published materials.

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