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Keeping UConn’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
9 of 9
One-time tiers
0
Tiers with published renewal terms
9
Renewal risk profile
low

Renewal risk profile

UConn'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 Scholars Award: See notes
  • Academic Excellence Scholarship: See notes
  • Husky Achievement Award: See notes
  • Leadership Scholarship: See notes
  • STEM Scholarship: See notes
  • UConn Award: See notes
  • Stamps Scholarship: See notes
  • Nutmeg Scholarship: See notes
  • Day of Pride Scholarship: See notes

Renewal terms by tier

Renewal questions families ask

What does the Stamps Scholarship at UConn cover?
Full cost of attendance (direct and indirect) PLUS a $12,000 enrichment award for four years, restricted to Storrs campus students. The enrichment fund is the key differentiator — it pays for research, conferences, study abroad, and leadership programming beyond classroom costs.

How UConn compares across our verified dataset

  • 133 of 150 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.

    UConn 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 UConn’s own published materials.

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