How much merit aid does Rhodes give?

Rhodes publishes a seven-tier merit ladder for first-year students: Cambridge ($43,000), Founders ($38,000), Presidential ($37,000), Ralph C. Hon ($35,000), Diehl ($34,000), Tennessee Advantage ($31,000, in-state), and Rhodes Award ($20,000-$32,000 holistic). All are renewable up to four years. The priority deadline is December 1.

What's the difference between the Tennessee Advantage and the Tennessee HOPE Scholarship?

The Tennessee Advantage Scholarship is a $31,000-per-year institutional award from Rhodes itself, restricted to Tennessee residents and renewable for four years. The Tennessee HOPE Scholarship is a separate state award funded by the lottery, requiring FAFSA filing. They can stack.

Rhodes· Renewal Rules

Keeping Rhodes’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: 7 of 7
One-time tiers: 0
Tiers with published renewal terms: 7
Renewal risk profile: low

Renewal risk profile

Rhodes'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.

Cambridge Scholarship: See notes
Founders Scholarship: See notes
Presidential Scholarship: See notes
Ralph C. Hon Scholarship: See notes
Diehl Scholarship: See notes
Tennessee Advantage Scholarship: See notes
Rhodes Award Scholarship: See notes

Renewal terms by tier

Cambridge Scholarship
$43,000 per year
To keep it: Renewable up to four years
Source: https://www.rhodes.edu/admission-aid/cost-affordability/rhodes-institutional-aid
Founders Scholarship
$38,000 per year
To keep it: Renewable up to four years
Source: https://www.rhodes.edu/admission-aid/cost-affordability/rhodes-institutional-aid
Presidential Scholarship
$37,000 per year
To keep it: Renewable up to four years
Source: https://www.rhodes.edu/admission-aid/cost-affordability/rhodes-institutional-aid
Ralph C. Hon Scholarship
$35,000 per year
To keep it: Renewable up to four years
Source: https://www.rhodes.edu/admission-aid/cost-affordability/rhodes-institutional-aid
Diehl Scholarship
$34,000 per year
To keep it: Renewable up to four years
Source: https://www.rhodes.edu/admission-aid/cost-affordability/rhodes-institutional-aid
Tennessee Advantage Scholarship
$31,000 per year
To keep it: Renewable up to four years
Source: https://www.rhodes.edu/admission-aid/cost-affordability/rhodes-institutional-aid
Rhodes Award Scholarship
$20,000 - $32,000 per year
To keep it: Renewable up to four years
Source: https://www.rhodes.edu/admission-aid/cost-affordability/rhodes-institutional-aid

How families lose this aid

Assuming a stat profile predicts a specific tier.
Rhodes does not publish GPA/test cutoffs for any of its seven merit tiers. Modeling a Cambridge or Founders Scholarship from forum-sourced stat profiles is unreliable. Build the budget assuming the Rhodes Award low end ($20,000) until the actual offer arrives, then adjust up.

Renewal questions families ask

How much merit aid does Rhodes give?: Rhodes publishes a seven-tier merit ladder for first-year students: Cambridge ($43,000), Founders ($38,000), Presidential ($37,000), Ralph C. Hon ($35,000), Diehl ($34,000), Tennessee Advantage ($31,000, in-state), and Rhodes Award ($20,000-$32,000 holistic). All are renewable up to four years. The priority deadline is December 1.
What's the difference between the Tennessee Advantage and the Tennessee HOPE Scholarship?: The Tennessee Advantage Scholarship is a $31,000-per-year institutional award from Rhodes itself, restricted to Tennessee residents and renewable for four years. The Tennessee HOPE Scholarship is a separate state award funded by the lottery, requiring FAFSA filing. They can stack.

How Rhodes compares across our verified dataset

133 of 150 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Rhodes 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 Rhodes’s own published materials.

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