Saint Michael's award rules
Will the scholarship last four years at Saint Michael's?
We pulled the school’s grade, credit, and time limits into one place so you can see what it takes to keep the award.
The short answer
8 of 8 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
- 8 of 8
- One-time tiers
- 0
- Tiers with published renewal terms
- 8
- Renewal risk profile
- low
Renewal risk profile
Saint Michael's'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.
- Saint Michael's College Book Award for Community Engagement: Full-time enrollment
- St. Mike's Flagship Match: See notes
- Free Tuition Vermont: 2.5 GPA
- Commuter Commitment: See notes
- International Student Scholarship: See notes
- Presidential Scholarship (Vermont students): Full-time enrollment
- Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship (transfer students): See notes
- St. Mike's Community Commitment (need-based, income-tested): See notes
Renewal terms by tier
Saint Michael's College Book Award for Community Engagement
Full tuitionTo keep it: Renewable each year for a maximum of four years of full-time enrollment at Saint Michael's College in good standing.
St. Mike's Flagship Match
Varies — set equal to your home state flagship public university's in-state tuition and fees (after institutional scholarships)To keep it: Described as a tuition model for students enrolling Fall 2026 and beyond; the page does not state a separate per-year renewal GPA for the match itself.
Source: https://smcvt.edu/admission-aid/financial-aid/st-mikes-flagship-match/
Free Tuition Vermont
Full tuition (Vermont residents living on campus with household AGI of $100,000 or less)Entry requirements: Maintain a 2.5 GPA to continue full tuition GPA
To keep it: To continue to receive full tuition, you must maintain a 2.5 GPA.
Source: https://smcvt.edu/admission-aid/financial-aid/st-mikes-flagship-match/
Commuter Commitment
$11,500 per year tuition (after institutional scholarships)To keep it: Described as a set per-year tuition model for students enrolling Fall 2026 and beyond; no separate renewal GPA stated on the page for this program.
Source: https://smcvt.edu/admission-aid/financial-aid/st-mikes-flagship-match/
International Student Scholarship
$22,500 per year tuition (after institutional scholarships)To keep it: Described as a set per-year tuition for students enrolling Fall 2026 and beyond; no separate renewal GPA stated on this page.
Source: https://smcvt.edu/admission-aid/financial-aid/st-mikes-flagship-match/
Presidential Scholarship (Vermont students)
$13,000 minimum up to full tuitionEntry requirements: A- average or higher in a challenging college preparatory high school curriculum; top 10% of graduating class GPA · 1300 SAT (post-March 2016) or higher SAT · 27 ACT or higher ACT
To keep it: Can be renewed each year for a maximum of four years of full-time enrollment in good standing.
Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship (transfer students)
$2,500 per yearTo keep it: Renewed annually.
St. Mike's Community Commitment (need-based, income-tested)
Full tuition coverage (household AGI under $100,000; assets $150,000 or less)Entry requirements: Maintain a 3.2 GPA after the first year (renewal); live on campus GPA
To keep it: Students must maintain a 3.2 grade point average for each successive year after their first, and are required to live on campus to continue receiving the scholarship. FAFSA must be filed each year to re-confirm the $100,000 AGI threshold.
How families lose this aid
- Confusing the merit price programs with the need-based Community Commitment.
Community Commitment (full tuition under $100K AGI) and the Edmundite Grant are NEED-based and FAFSA-verified each year. Free Tuition Vermont is income-tested but renewal-gated at a 2.5 GPA; Community Commitment renewal requires a 3.2 GPA and living on campus.
Renewal questions families ask
- Are these scholarships renewable?
- Yes for the named awards (Book Award up to four years; Presidential up to four years; Phi Theta Kappa renewed annually). The income-based programs have GPA renewal conditions: Free Tuition Vermont requires a 2.5 GPA, and the need-based Community Commitment requires a 3.2 GPA after the first year plus living on campus.
Rules that bite at Saint Michael's
The renewal trip wires we'd flag in a custom playbook, derived from Saint Michael's's own tier rules and not generic advice.
- Renewal ruleSaint Michael's College Book Award for Community Engagement: renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out
Renewable each year for a maximum of four years of full-time enrollment at Saint Michael's College in good standing. A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.
How Saint Michael's compares across our verified dataset
- 665 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Saint Michael's is one of them. The cohort minority (84 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 Saint Michael's’s own published materials.
- Cost of attendanceSaint Michael's cost-of-attendance worksheet
- Merit tiersSaint Michael's College Book Award for Community Engagement
- Merit tiersSt. Mike's Flagship Match
- Merit tiersPresidential Scholarship (Vermont students)
- Merit tiersSt. Mike's Community Commitment (need-based, income-tested)
- Scholarship pageEdmundite Grant (need-based)