Westmont· Renewal Rules

Keeping Westmont’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 Jun 2026today· COWORK

At a glance

Renewable tiers: 7 of 7
One-time tiers: 0
Tiers with published renewal terms: 7
Renewal risk profile: moderate

Renewal risk profile

Westmont's renewal bar is achievable for steady students but isn't generous. Most awards require a cumulative GPA in the 3.0–3.4 band plus full-time enrollment. Audit the strictest tier on this school's list before assuming the four-year value is locked in.

The Augustinian Scholarship: 3.25 GPA
The President's Scholarship: 3.25 GPA
The Ruth Kerr Scholarship: 3.0 GPA
The Wallace L. Emerson Scholarship: 3.0 GPA
The Founder's Scholarship: 2.75 GPA
The Warrior Academic Award: See notes
Transfer Scholarships (President's / Ruth Kerr / Founder's): See notes

Renewal terms by tier

The Augustinian Scholarship
75% of tuition
To keep it: Renewable with a 3.25 GPA (3.0 for students enrolled in two or more honors courses each year).
Source: https://www.westmont.edu/scholarships
The President's Scholarship
$25,000
Entry requirements: Determined by the published GPA-by-SAT/ACT grid (image) GPA · Per grid SAT · Per grid ACT
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.
Source: https://www.westmont.edu/scholarships
The Ruth Kerr Scholarship
$23,000
Entry requirements: Per published GPA/test grid GPA · Per grid SAT · Per grid ACT
To keep it: Renewable with a minimum 3.0 GPA. $92,000 total over four years.
Source: https://www.westmont.edu/scholarships
The Wallace L. Emerson Scholarship
$21,000
Entry requirements: Per published GPA/test grid GPA · Per grid SAT · Per grid ACT
To keep it: Renewable with a minimum 3.0 GPA. $84,000 total over four years.
Source: https://www.westmont.edu/scholarships
The Founder's Scholarship
$18,000
Entry requirements: Per published GPA/test grid GPA · Per grid SAT · Per grid ACT
To keep it: Renewable with a minimum 2.75 GPA. $72,000 total over four years.
Source: https://www.westmont.edu/scholarships
The Warrior Academic Award
$15,000
Entry requirements: Per published GPA/test grid GPA · Per grid SAT · Per grid ACT
To keep it: Renewable for students in good academic standing with a minimum GPA of 2.0. $60,000 total over four years.
Source: https://www.westmont.edu/scholarships
Transfer Scholarships (President's / Ruth Kerr / Founder's)
$12,000-$20,000
Entry requirements: Minimum 3.0 college GPA to qualify; tier set by college GPA GPA
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).
Source: https://www.westmont.edu/scholarships

How families lose this aid

Assuming every scholarship has the same renewal GPA
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.
Reading the headline scholarship as the whole story for cutoffs
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.

Rules that bite at Westmont

The renewal trip wires we'd flag in a custom playbook, derived from Westmont's own tier rules and not generic advice.

renewalTransfer 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.

How Westmont compares across our verified dataset

15 of 272 verified schools publish a top renewal tier requiring 3.5+ GPA or major-GPA gating.
Westmont is one of them. Calibrate year-one academic load against the renewal floor, not just freshman survival.
247 of 272 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Westmont is one of them. The cohort minority (25 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 Westmont’s own published materials.