What happens to my Sewanee merit if I study abroad?

The Sewanee Pledge guarantees a semester-long study abroad program at no additional tuition cost for students entering since August 2018. Sewanee aid is designed to follow you for that semester rather than disappearing, which is unusual among small Southern colleges.

Sewanee· Renewal Rules

Keeping Sewanee’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 May 20268 days ago· CA-1

At a glance

Renewable tiers: 7 of 7
One-time tiers: 0
Tiers with published renewal terms: 6
Renewal risk profile: low

Renewal risk profile

Sewanee'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.

Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship: See notes
Benedict Scholarship: See notes
Wilkins Scholarship: See notes
EQB Award: See notes
Fellowship in the Arts: See notes
University Choir Scholarship: See notes

Renewal terms by tier

Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship
Full tuition, fees, room and board annually (1 awarded per class)
To keep it: Renewable when student maintains satisfactory academic progress.
Source: https://new.sewanee.edu/admission-aid/cost-financial-aid/scholarships/
Benedict Scholarship
Full tuition, fees, room and board annually (2 awarded per class)
To keep it: Renewable on satisfactory academic progress.
Source: https://new.sewanee.edu/admission-aid/cost-financial-aid/scholarships/
Wilkins Scholarship
$5,000 in addition to the recipient's EQB Award annually
To keep it: Renewable on satisfactory academic progress.
Source: https://new.sewanee.edu/admission-aid/cost-financial-aid/scholarships/
EQB Award
$5,000–$34,000 per year
To keep it: Renewable on satisfactory academic progress.
Source: https://new.sewanee.edu/admission-aid/cost-financial-aid/scholarships/
Fellowship in the Arts
$2,000, stackable on top of any academic scholarship
To keep it: Renewable for four years.
Source: https://new.sewanee.edu/admission-aid/cost-financial-aid/scholarships/
University Choir Scholarship
Starting at $5,000 per year (up to 5 awards per cohort)
To keep it: Renewable for four years contingent on continued participation in the University Choir.
Source: https://new.sewanee.edu/admission-aid/cost-financial-aid/scholarships/

How families lose this aid

Forgetting the Sewanee Pledge covers a semester abroad at no additional tuition.
For students entering since August 2018, the Sewanee Pledge guarantees a semester-long study abroad program at no additional tuition cost. Families budgeting for traditional 'study abroad surcharges' often overestimate cost in years three and four.

Renewal questions families ask

What happens to my Sewanee merit if I study abroad?: The Sewanee Pledge guarantees a semester-long study abroad program at no additional tuition cost for students entering since August 2018. Sewanee aid is designed to follow you for that semester rather than disappearing, which is unusual among small Southern colleges.

How Sewanee compares across our verified dataset

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

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