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Westmont scholarships and merit aid

Two prices: the posted one, and yours.

Posted price$79,300per year · 2026-2027 · cost of attendance
Yours?depends on the rules below

The short answer

Westmont awards automatic merit on admission. Westmont does not publish a GPA or test chart, so you cannot self-calculate the dollars.

Where does your student land?

Verified Jul 2026
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Published rules, with the school sources close at hand. Confirm the details before you count on an award.

The award collection

Published scholarships

These amounts and requirements come from the school’s own published pages. Open an award to see who qualifies and how to keep it.

Where does your student land?

  1. The Augustinian Scholarship75% of tuitionNot automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    The Augustinian Scholarship

    75% of tuition

    Published coverage or packageNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    Start with the award’s published eligibility.

    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for The Augustinian Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    By invitation only; Westmont invites exemplary Early Action I & II applicants to compete. Between 30 and 60 scholarships awarded.

    How to keep it

    Renewable with a 3.25 GPA (3.0 for students enrolled in two or more honors courses each year).

    Worth knowing

    A tuition-PERCENTAGE award (75% of tuition), not a fixed dollar amount — its value scales with tuition. Competitive and invitation-only.

  2. The President's Scholarship$25,000AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    The President's Scholarship

    $25,000

    Published amountAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    Determined by the published GPA-by-SAT/ACT grid (image)
    SAT
    Per grid
    ACT
    Per grid
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for The President's Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    Awarded automatically to qualifying students; eligibility noted within the offer of admission. Test-optional applicants are eligible for all tiers.

    How to keep it

    Renewable with a 3.25 GPA (3.0 if enrolled in two or more honors classes each year). $100,000 total over four years.

    Worth knowing

    Top of the fixed-dollar academic tiers. The exact GPA/test cutoff is in an image grid on the page (not machine-readable here).

  3. The Ruth Kerr Scholarship$23,000AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    The Ruth Kerr Scholarship

    $23,000

    Published amountAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    Per published GPA/test grid
    SAT
    Per grid
    ACT
    Per grid
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for The Ruth Kerr Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    Automatic on the academic grid

    How to keep it

    Renewable with a minimum 3.0 GPA. $92,000 total over four years.

  4. The Wallace L. Emerson Scholarship$21,000AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    The Wallace L. Emerson Scholarship

    $21,000

    Published amountAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    Per published GPA/test grid
    SAT
    Per grid
    ACT
    Per grid
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for The Wallace L. Emerson Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    Automatic on the academic grid

    How to keep it

    Renewable with a minimum 3.0 GPA. $84,000 total over four years.

  5. The Founder's Scholarship$18,000AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    The Founder's Scholarship

    $18,000

    Published amountAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    Per published GPA/test grid
    SAT
    Per grid
    ACT
    Per grid
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for The Founder's Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    Automatic on the academic grid

    How to keep it

    Renewable with a minimum 2.75 GPA. $72,000 total over four years.

  6. The Warrior Academic Award$15,000AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    The Warrior Academic Award

    $15,000

    Published amountAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    Per published GPA/test grid
    SAT
    Per grid
    ACT
    Per grid
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for The Warrior Academic Award

    Who qualifies

    Automatic on the academic grid

    How to keep it

    Renewable for students in good academic standing with a minimum GPA of 2.0. $60,000 total over four years.

    Worth knowing

    Lowest fixed-dollar academic tier.

  7. Transfer Scholarships (President's / Ruth Kerr / Founder's)$12,000-$20,000AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    Transfer Scholarships (President's / Ruth Kerr / Founder's)

    $12,000-$20,000

    Published rangeAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    Minimum 3.0 college GPA to qualify; tier set by college GPA
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Transfer Scholarships (President's / Ruth Kerr / Founder's)

    Who qualifies

    Transfer students entering Westmont

    How to keep it

    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).

    Worth knowing

    Three transfer tiers based on college GPA, $12,000-$20,000/yr.

Lights up against Westmont's published cutoffs. Not an award offer; confirm with the financial aid office. Award terms and residency rules change; some awards differ for in-state and out-of-state students. Always confirm at the school’s source page.

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The fine print

Renewal ruleTransfer Scholarships (President's / Ruth Kerr / Founder's): renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out

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.

Aid capHard $79,300 cost-of-attendance ceiling

Institutional aid at Westmont cannot push the package past $79,300. Big outside wins can mathematically reduce institutional grant once the ceiling is reached.

What makes Westmont different

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.

Merit tiers76 based on grades or scores
Research checkedJul 2026By our research team

More than one award path

Separate the two paths.

Some awards use published academic thresholds. Others have different selection criteria. A score chart does not describe every award at this school.

  1. Match the published criteria

    Use all requirements together, including residency and the entering class.

  2. Check the application dates

    Confirm the current admission and scholarship deadlines directly with the school.

  3. Know what happens next year

    Check renewal, credit requirements and how other aid affects the award.

The fine print / Three questions to carry forward

Before you count on it.

Does it apply to us? Confirm the entering year, residency and every eligibility condition.

Can we keep it? Check renewal GPA, credits and how long the award lasts.

Can we combine it? Ask how outside scholarships and other school awards change the offer.

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Straight from the aid office

What Westmont's aid office says

Per the Student Financial Services, Westmont College, August 2026. How we verify

Net Price Calculator for aid estimate

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.”
Basis of Westmont Grant

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.”
Effect of outside scholarships on existing aid

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.”
Merit scholarship renewal requirement

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.”

What families often miss

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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Who this school may work for

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

Cost and graduation facts

Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Westmont, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.

Average annual net price by family income at Westmont, academic year 2021-22
Family incomeAverage 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

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23
$53,584
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22
$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).

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort
70%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort
85%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers
$23,250 (~$246/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21)
$64,778
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22
28%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22
55%
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If your student brings another scholarship

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)

Source

Other Westmont scholarships worth checking

These awards can be harder to find. Each one has its own rules.

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityApplicants in athletics, art, theatre, or music; contact the department or coach

Can stack on top of academic scholarships.

Source

Westmont merit aid FAQ

  • Do I need to apply separately for 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.

  • Can scholarships stack?

    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.

  • What is the 2026-27 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.

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How Westmont compares

  • 235 of 749 verified schools in our dataset use cost-of-attendance cap displacement.

    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.

  • 665 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.

    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.

Sources used on this page

Every claim is checked against Westmont’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

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