Westmont College · California
Westmont auto-awards named academic scholarships ($15,000-$25,000/yr) on a GPA-by-test grid, plus an invitation-only Augustinian award worth 75% of tuition — and unusually lets need- and talent-based aid stack on top.
The short answer
Westmont is worth checking if your student has strong grades or scores. We found 7 published awards, and 6 are based on those numbers.
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These amounts and requirements come from the school’s own published pages. Open an award to see who qualifies and how to keep it.
By invitation only; Westmont invites exemplary Early Action I & II applicants to compete. Between 30 and 60 scholarships awarded.
Renewable with a 3.25 GPA (3.0 for students enrolled in two or more honors courses each year).
A tuition-PERCENTAGE award (75% of tuition), not a fixed dollar amount — its value scales with tuition. Competitive and invitation-only.
Awarded automatically to qualifying students; eligibility noted within the offer of admission. Test-optional applicants are eligible for all tiers.
Renewable with a 3.25 GPA (3.0 if enrolled in two or more honors classes each year). $100,000 total over four years.
Top of the fixed-dollar academic tiers. The exact GPA/test cutoff is in an image grid on the page (not machine-readable here).
Automatic on the academic grid
Renewable with a minimum 3.0 GPA. $92,000 total over four years.
Automatic on the academic grid
Renewable with a minimum 3.0 GPA. $84,000 total over four years.
Automatic on the academic grid
Renewable with a minimum 2.75 GPA. $72,000 total over four years.
Automatic on the academic grid
Renewable for students in good academic standing with a minimum GPA of 2.0. $60,000 total over four years.
Lowest fixed-dollar academic tier.
Transfer students entering Westmont
President's $20,000 (3.75 college GPA, renew 3.25/3.0 honors); Ruth Kerr $15,000 (3.35 college GPA, renew 3.0); Founder's $12,000 (3.0 college GPA, renew 2.75).
Three transfer tiers based on college GPA, $12,000-$20,000/yr.
These are the rules we would flag for your family. Each comes from Westmont's published information.
President's $20,000 (3.75 college GPA, renew 3.25/3.0 honors); Ruth Kerr $15,000 (3.35 college GPA, renew 3.0); Founder's $12,000 (3.0 college GPA, renew 2.75). A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.
Institutional aid at Westmont cannot push the package past $79,300. Big outside wins can mathematically reduce institutional grant once the ceiling is reached.
Straight from the aid office
Per the Student Financial Services, Westmont College, August 2026. How we verify
Is there a tool to estimate what aid a student could qualify for?
Westmont provides a Net Price Calculator that families can use to see what aid they could qualify for.
“You can use our Net Price Calculator <https://www.westmont.edu/net-price-calc> to see what you could qualify for.”
What determines the Westmont Grant amount?
The Westmont Grant is based on information submitted on the FAFSA.
“The Westmont Grant is based on information submitted on the FAFSA.”
When a student receives an outside scholarship, does it reduce existing aid?
Outside scholarships replace existing aid depending on how close the student is to meeting the cost of attendance for the year.
“Outside scholarships replaces existing aid depending on how close you are to meeting the cost of attendance for the year.”
What renewal rules apply to institutional merit scholarships?
Once a student is awarded a merit scholarship, they must meet the GPA requirements for it during their time at Westmont.
“Once your student is awarded a merit scholarship, they would need to meet the GPA requirements for it during their time at Westmont.”
Renewal floors vary by award: President's and Augustinian require 3.25 (3.0 with 2+ honors courses), Ruth Kerr and Emerson 3.0, Founder's 2.75, and the Warrior award 2.0 — the larger awards carry steeper GPA floors, and dropping below your award's floor forfeits it.
It is by invitation only — Westmont invites exemplary Early Action I & II applicants to compete — and it is 75% of TUITION (a percentage that scales with tuition), not a fixed dollar amount or a full ride.
Westmont's financial-aid landing materials have shown an older (2023-24) tuition figure; the dedicated Cost of Attendance page is current — 2026-27 tuition is $56,630 and the on-campus financial-aid cost of attendance is $79,300.
The dollar amounts and renewal GPAs are published in text, but the exact GPA-by-SAT/ACT cutoffs that place you in a tier are shown only in an image grid on the page — confirm your specific tier in your offer of admission.
Westmont is residential and expects most students to live on campus; off-campus approval is limited and not guaranteed, and the off-campus COA uses allowances, not actual costs.
A strong-GPA Christian-liberal-arts applicant who benefits from Westmont's stacking-friendly model (academic + need + talent), with top students applying Early Action I/II to compete for the invitation-only Augustinian 75%-of-tuition award.
Published yearly cost: Approximately $79,300 for 2026-2027. Source
Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Westmont, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.
| Family income | Average net price paid |
|---|---|
| $0–$30,000 | $20,899 |
| $30,001–$48,000 | $15,492 |
| $48,001–$75,000 | $19,867 |
| $75,001–$110,000 | $24,524 |
| $110,001+ | $38,124 |
| All income levels (average) | $29,053 |
That works out to roughly a 59% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $71,150 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).
Outside scholarships only trigger an aid adjustment if total aid would exceed the cost of attendance (or the student's aid eligibility cap); below that ceiling, awards are not displaced.
Verified policy language (2026-07-02): Student Financial Services is required to ensure that the sum of need-based funds, including all grants and scholarships, does not exceed a student's need if there are federal- or state-funded need-based funds included in the financial aid package. Separately, the school's own award-stacking rules: Unusually stacking-friendly: need-based aid (from the FAFSA) and talent-based awards (athletics, music, art, theatre) can stack ON TOP of the academic scholarships. The scholarships page states the academic amounts do not include need-based or talent-based aid, and that 'Need- and talent-based awards can stack on top of academic scholarships.' The COA page notes total financial aid is limited to the cost of attendance. (per https://www.westmont.edu/scholarships)
These awards can be harder to find. Each one has its own rules.
Can stack on top of academic scholarships.
No — academic scholarships are automatically awarded to qualifying students upon admission, and eligibility is noted within your offer of admission. The Augustinian Scholarship is invitation-only and tied to applying Early Action I & II. Talent awards require contacting the department/coach.
Yes — need-based aid (FAFSA) and talent-based awards (athletics, music, art, theatre) can stack on top of your academic scholarship, up to the total cost of attendance.
On-campus financial-aid cost of attendance is $79,300 (tuition $56,630; health fee $628; activity fee $362; technology fee $340; housing $10,830; meal plan $7,510; books $1,600; personal $1,400). Direct (billed) costs are $76,300; off-campus COA is $75,585.
Westmont is in a recognizable cluster (235 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.
Westmont is one of them. The cohort minority (84 schools) only awards one-year scholarships, which means the four-year value families assume on a brochure quote isn't guaranteed at every school.
Every claim is checked against Westmont’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.
