The starting point
Southern's automatic merit awards are modest — $500 to $4,000/year applied at admission with no separate application — but the Honors College stacks far bigger value: a $7,000 Presidential Merit Scholarship, and tuition-tier awards covering at least half (and, for the top applicants, all) of in-state tuition and fees.
Selection beyond grades and scores. These awards are not recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read each award's selection rules, application steps and dates. Meeting a minimum is not an award offer.
Awards to discuss
First 3 of 5 recorded awards, in chapter display order. This is a selection, not a ranking. Read the full chapter for all awards. Amounts retain the original units and conditions; confirm the entering year with the school.
Southern Merit Award (automatic, at admission)
$500 to $4,000 per year · Published range
Not recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules.
GPA: Not published as a fixed cutoff; 'awarded based on academic achievement'
Eligibility: No separate application — awarded as part of the admission review to select newly admitted first-year, transfer and graduate students; subject to availability of funds
Renewal: Stated as 'renewed automatically based on continued academic eligibility.' The specific renewal GPA is not published on the page.
Other terms: This is the general (non-Honors) automatic merit band. A student 'may not receive both the Merit Scholarship and the Presidential Merit Scholarship' — the $7,000 Honors award is mutually exclusive with this one, not additive. The dollar a given student receives within $500-$4,000 is not published as a stat grid.
https://www.southernct.edu/tuition-aid/scholarships
Trustee Scholarship
Amount not published · Published award terms
Not recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules.
Eligibility: Automatic consideration on applying for admission; awarded on academic achievement and availability of funds. No separate application.
Renewal: Renewal terms not stated on the page.
Other terms: Named automatic award. The page does not publish a dollar amount, GPA/test cutoff, or renewal rule, so the value cannot be quoted — treat the amount as unpublished rather than assuming it falls in the $500-$4,000 band.
https://www.southernct.edu/admissions/first-year
Presidential Merit Scholarship (Honors College)
$7,000 per year · Published amount
Not recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules.
GPA: Honors College admission requires a minimum 3.6 weighted GPA (4.0 scale) and top 15% of class
Eligibility: Must be accepted into the Honors College; mutually exclusive with the general Merit Scholarship
Renewal: 'Automatically renewed each year as long as they remain enrolled in the Honors College' — renewal is tied to continued Honors College enrollment, not a published GPA number.
Other terms: CONFLICT: the tuition-aid scholarships page describes a flat '$7,000 Presidential Merit Scholarship' that is automatically renewed while enrolled in the Honors College, while the admissions/first-year page describes a 'Presidential Merit scholarship covering full in-state tuition and fees' for the top 20% of accepted Honors applicants. These two pages do not agree on whether the Presidential Merit award is a fixed $7,000 or a full-in-state-tuition award. The $7,000 figure is quoted here because it is the only dollar amount published verbatim; the full-tuition tier is captured as a separate tier below. Confirm with the Honors College / financial aid office before relying on either value.
https://www.southernct.edu/tuition-aid/scholarships
