Does Trinity College in Hartford offer merit scholarships?

Yes. Trinity publishes a three-tier competitive merit ladder: Presidential (full tuition), Bicentennial (half tuition), and 1823 (amount varies). All three are renewable for up to four years of undergraduate education.

What does Trinity College's Presidential Scholarship cover?

Full tuition ($72,820 for 2026-27), renewable for up to four years. It does NOT cover the $13,150 standard room, $7,180 first-year meal plan, or roughly $3,300 in fees — recipients still owe roughly $24,000/year out of pocket or through other aid.

Trinity Hartford· Renewal Rules

Keeping Trinity Hartford’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· CC-1

At a glance

Renewable tiers: 3 of 3
One-time tiers: 0
Tiers with published renewal terms: 3
Renewal risk profile: low

Renewal risk profile

Trinity Hartford'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.

Presidential Scholarship: See notes
Bicentennial Scholarship: See notes
1823 Scholarship: See notes

Renewal terms by tier

Presidential Scholarship
Full tuition
To keep it: Renewable for up to four years of undergraduate education at Trinity.
Source: https://www.trincoll.edu/admissions/finaid/
Bicentennial Scholarship
Half tuition
To keep it: Renewable for up to four years.
Source: https://www.trincoll.edu/admissions/finaid/
1823 Scholarship
Amount varies
To keep it: Renewable for up to four years.
Source: https://www.trincoll.edu/admissions/finaid/

How families lose this aid

Modeling the Presidential Scholarship as a four-year cost-of-attendance award.
Trinity's Presidential covers TUITION only ($72,820/year), not the full $96,480 cost of attendance. Recipients still owe the $13,150 room + $7,180 meal plan + fees out of pocket or through other aid sources every year.

Renewal questions families ask

Does Trinity College in Hartford offer merit scholarships?: Yes. Trinity publishes a three-tier competitive merit ladder: Presidential (full tuition), Bicentennial (half tuition), and 1823 (amount varies). All three are renewable for up to four years of undergraduate education.
What does Trinity College's Presidential Scholarship cover?: Full tuition ($72,820 for 2026-27), renewable for up to four years. It does NOT cover the $13,150 standard room, $7,180 first-year meal plan, or roughly $3,300 in fees — recipients still owe roughly $24,000/year out of pocket or through other aid.

How Trinity Hartford compares across our verified dataset

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