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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 Jul 202615 days ago· 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

  • 69 of 750 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.

  • 669 of 750 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.

    Westmont is one of them. The cohort minority (81 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.

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