What is the Coronat Scholarship at Syracuse?

The Coronat Scholarship is Syracuse's flagship merit award — full tuition for four years (or five years for approved five-year programs), restricted to first-year applicants whose home college is the College of Arts and Sciences | Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. All A&S/Maxwell applicants are automatically considered through the Common App or Coalition App. Approximately 200 invited to apply, ~40 to interview. Past Coronats have won Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, and Fulbright awards.

Are Syracuse merit scholarships renewable?

Yes. Coronat and other SU merit scholarships renew annually for up to 8 semesters (10 for approved 5-year programs) with full-time enrollment (12 credits/semester) and a 3.0 cumulative GPA (2.75 for students enrolled before Fall 2026). Students have three semesters to meet the GPA requirement before forfeiture.

Syracuse· Renewal Rules

Keeping Syracuse’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: 2 of 2
One-time tiers: 0
Tiers with published renewal terms: 2
Renewal risk profile: high

Renewal risk profile

Syracuse's top merit tiers carry renewal floors at or above 3.5 cumulative GPA, which is above the median freshman college GPA at most US flagships. A single rough semester can knock a four-year award out without a published reinstatement path. Plan year-one course load with renewal in mind, not just first-year survival.

Coronat Scholarship: 3.0 GPA
Syracuse University Merit Scholarship: 3.0 GPA

Renewal terms by tier

Coronat Scholarship
Full tuition for four years (or five years for approved five-year programs)
Entry requirements: Average admit: 4.15 high school GPA GPA · Average admit: 1500 SAT super score SAT · Average admit: 34 ACT super score ACT
To keep it: Renewable annually with cumulative 3.0 GPA and full-time enrollment in the College of Arts and Sciences | Maxwell School (Fall 2026 and later starters). Pre-Fall 2026 cohorts: 2.75 cumulative GPA. Transferring out of A&S/Maxwell forfeits the scholarship.
Source: https://financialaid.syr.edu/scholarships/su/merit-and-talent-based-scholarships/
Syracuse University Merit Scholarship
Not publicly disclosed in a tier table
To keep it: Renewable for up to 8 semesters of undergraduate enrollment (10 for approved 5-year programs). 3.0 cumulative GPA + 12 credits/semester for Fall 2026+; pre-Fall 2026 cohorts use 2.75 GPA. Three semesters of grace if GPA falls short.
Source: https://financialaid.syr.edu/scholarships/su/merit-and-talent-based-scholarships/

How families lose this aid

Assuming the Coronat Scholarship is available to all Syracuse applicants.
Coronat is restricted to students whose home college is the College of Arts and Sciences | Maxwell School. Students admitted to Newhouse (communications), Whitman (business), Engineering, Architecture, or other Syracuse schools are not Coronat-eligible. Students may add majors across colleges, but switching home college out of A&S/Maxwell after admission forfeits the scholarship.
Banking on the 2.75 renewal GPA — that floor only applies to pre-Fall 2026 cohorts.
Syracuse raised the scholarship-renewal GPA floor from 2.75 to 3.0 for students enrolling Fall 2026 and later. The 2.75 minimum applies only to students enrolled before Fall 2026. New first-years need a 3.0 cumulative GPA and 12 credits per semester to keep institutional aid, with a three-semester grace window to recover.

Renewal questions families ask

What is the Coronat Scholarship at Syracuse?: The Coronat Scholarship is Syracuse's flagship merit award — full tuition for four years (or five years for approved five-year programs), restricted to first-year applicants whose home college is the College of Arts and Sciences | Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. All A&S/Maxwell applicants are automatically considered through the Common App or Coalition App. Approximately 200 invited to apply, ~40 to interview. Past Coronats have won Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, and Fulbright awards.
Are Syracuse merit scholarships renewable?: Yes. Coronat and other SU merit scholarships renew annually for up to 8 semesters (10 for approved 5-year programs) with full-time enrollment (12 credits/semester) and a 3.0 cumulative GPA (2.75 for students enrolled before Fall 2026). Students have three semesters to meet the GPA requirement before forfeiture.

Rules that bite at Syracuse

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

renewalCoronat Scholarship: renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out
Renewable annually with cumulative 3.0 GPA and full-time enrollment in the College of Arts and Sciences | Maxwell School (Fall 2026 and later starters). Pre-Fall 2026 cohorts: 2.75 cumulative GPA. Transferring out of A&S/Maxwell forfeits the scholarship. A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.

How Syracuse compares across our verified dataset

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

policySyracuse stacking policy
tierCoronat Scholarship
scholarshipRenée Crown University Honors Program (Coronat-attached)