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National Merit Scholarship
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University of Idaho · Idaho
University of Idaho Merit Aid
UI rewards academic achievement and lets students with outside aid or regional residency stack multiple scholarships.
Verified Jun 20261 day ago· HX-AUTO
Merit tiers43 automatic on stats
Last verifiedJun 2026Analyst HX-AUTO
Rules that bite at University of Idaho
The trip wires we'd flag in a custom playbook. Each is derived from University of Idaho's own published policy, not generic advice.
- displacementNo published displacement order
University of Idaho's policy doesn't specify whether outside scholarships hit loans, grants, or only the COA ceiling. Get a written aid-office answer before chasing private awards.
Who this school is for
Students from western states should check WUE eligibility, and those bringing National Merit recognition or external scholarships will find their awards stack generously.
Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $30,758 for 2026-2027. Source
Institutional merit aid tiers
Every tier below is sourced to the school’s own published financial aid pages. Renewal terms apply only if the student maintains the stated GPA.
Outside scholarship stacking policy
Additional external scholarships may stack on to a student's University of Idaho award.
Additional external scholarships may stack on to a student's University of Idaho award.
How University of Idaho compares across our verified dataset
- 61 of 275 verified schools in our dataset use unclear or unpublished displacement.
University of Idaho is in a recognizable cluster (61 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.
- 61 of 275 verified schools publish no clear displacement order.
University of Idaho is one of them. The right move is the aid-office email script below, not a guess.
- 77 of 275 verified schools publish a dedicated National Merit Finalist package.
University of Idaho is one of them. NMF packages typically carry their own stacking and renewal carve-outs separate from the standard automatic merit ladder; confirm those before assuming the headline NMF value is final.
Sources used on this page
Every claim is checked against University of Idaho’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.
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Keep exploring University of Idaho merit aid
- University of Idaho scholarship stacking — Whether outside awards land as upside or quietly displace institutional aid.
- Does University of Idaho displace outside scholarships? — The dollar math on a $5,000 outside award, plus peer schools that handle it differently.