$5,000
Art Scholarship
Application
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Notes
Official Puget Sound snapshot states Art Scholarships are $5,000 per year, for students planning visual arts or art history, with Jan. 15 application deadline.
Puget Sound · Washington
Puget Sound Merit Aid
Puget Sound centers merit on a stacked Academic Scholarship suite plus named awards (Matelich, Lillis), talent scholarships in art and forensics, and National Merit and Posse recognition.
Verified Jun 20261 day ago· HX-AUTO
Merit tiers81 automatic on stats
Last verifiedJun 2026Analyst HX-AUTO
Rules that bite at Puget Sound
The trip wires we'd flag in a custom playbook. Each is derived from Puget Sound's own published policy, not generic advice.
- displacementNo published displacement order
Puget Sound'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
Strong applicants to this private Pacific-Northwest liberal-arts college, talent candidates in art or forensics, and students who can combine academic and named awards.
Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $90,766 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.
Full cost of attendance
Lillis Foundation Scholarship
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Official Lillis Scholarship snapshot supports coverage of tuition, standard double room, and standard medium meal plan for up to four years; says two scholarships are awarded and completed admission plus scholarship applications are due December 1.
$1,000+
Forensics Scholarship
Application
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Notes
Official Puget Sound snapshot states Forensics Scholarships are $1,000-$3,000 per year, recipients compete in intercollegiate speech and debate, and deadline is Jan. 15.
$1,000+
National Merit Scholarship
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Official Puget Sound snapshot states incoming first-year National Merit Finalists listing Puget Sound first-choice with NMSC by May 31 are eligible for $1,000-$2,000 depending on financial need, in addition to other academic scholarships.
Full tuition
Posse Foundation Scholarship
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Official Puget Sound snapshot states partnership with Posse Foundation, 10 San Francisco Bay Area public high school students selected each year for full-tuition scholarships regardless of financial need, with process coordinated by Posse.
Up to $45,000
Academic Scholarship Suite
Automatic
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Notes
Official Puget Sound scholarship snapshot supports automatic consideration for incoming undergraduates, academic application basis, no separate application, up to $45,000/year, and constant annual amounts if eligibility is met; scholarship list includes the named academic tiers.
$2,000
All Washington Academic Team Scholarship
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Official Puget Sound snapshot states AWAT recognizes Washington community college academic achievers and Puget Sound offers up to three $2,000 scholarships, in addition to other academic scholarships.
Full cost of attendance
Matelich Scholarship
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Notes
Official Matelich Scholarship snapshot supports 100% of tuition and fees (standard double room, standard medium meal plan, and student government fee) for up to four years; says two awards and completed admission plus scholarship application due Dec. 1.
Outside scholarship stacking policy
Students studying abroad may apply Puget Sound scholarships and grants to their study abroad program. Program fees (assessed for study abroad) range from $300 up to $2,400, with the majority at the $300 tier.
Official Puget Sound snapshot states students studying abroad may apply Puget Sound scholarships and grants to their study abroad program and program fee tiers range from $300 to $2400, with most at $300.
Puget Sound merit aid FAQ
What is the deadline for Deadline Academic Scholarship Automatic?
No separate application is required for academic merit scholarships. All incoming undergraduates are considered automatically at the point of admission.
What is the deadline for Deadline Talent Scholarships Jan15?
Applications for Art, Forensics, and Theatre talent scholarships are due January 15.
How Puget Sound compares across our verified dataset
- 44 of 203 verified schools in our dataset use unclear or unpublished displacement.
Puget Sound is in a recognizable cluster (44 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.
- 44 of 203 verified schools publish no clear displacement order.
Puget Sound is one of them. The right move is the aid-office email script below, not a guess.
- 61 of 203 verified schools publish a dedicated National Merit Finalist package.
Puget Sound 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 Puget Sound’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.
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