Alverno College: merit scholarships by GPA
Alverno College awards automatic merit aid from a published grid keyed to GPA — the ACT is not used. Awards start at a 2.3 GPA and reach $23,000 a year. Because the bands are steps rather than a slope, a hundredth of a GPA point is worth nothing inside a band and the whole step at the edge of one.
Enter a GPA below to see which band it actually lands in, what that band pays, and what the next band needs.
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Alverno prints no entry year and does not put "per year" beside each figure, though the awards are described as renewable for four years. The GPA is unweighted and the top rung is printed as a closed 3.75 to 4.0 window, which is carried open here so a weighted transcript still clears it. No renewal GPA is published.
Unweighted, as the school asks for it.
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Example — a 3.60 GPA
Deans' Scholarship
$22,000 a year / year
About $88,000 over four years, if it renews.
Alverno awards this on GPA alone, so an ACT score does not change it. A higher score can still matter for admission, for honours programmes, and at other schools on the list — but not for this award.
The ACT doesn't move the money here — but it still decides admission, honours eligibility, and what they is worth at the other schools on the list, where most awards are score-keyed.
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The published Alverno merit aid grid
Reproduced in full from Alverno College’s own pages for the current cycle. Nothing here is estimated: where the school states a benefit rather than a figure, that is what the table says.
Academic scholarships
Awarded automatically on acceptance and renewable for four years. Read on the unweighted high school GPA.
$23,000 a year
Vanguard Scholarship
No score needed · GPA 3.75
$22,000 a year
Deans' Scholarship
No score needed · GPA 3.50
$20,000 a year
Alexia Scholarship
No score needed · GPA 2.90
$18,000 a year
Founders' Scholarship
No score needed · GPA 2.30
| Award | With a score | No score | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Scholarship | — | GPA 3.75 | $23,000 a year |
| Deans' Scholarship | — | GPA 3.50 | $22,000 a year |
| Alexia Scholarship | — | GPA 2.90 | $20,000 a year |
| Founders' Scholarship | — | GPA 2.30 | $18,000 a year |
Source: Financial aid and scholarships · verified 2026-10-25
Does Alverno superscore for scholarships?
Not stated, and it would not matter — the grid reads no score.
With nothing published, plan for the stricter reading: look up your best single sitting in the grid above, work out your superscore as well, and ask Alverno’s financial aid office which one they read before you count on the higher band.
Comparing schools? See which colleges superscore for scholarships — 66 of 501 commit to it, 52 say they do not, and the rest never say.
Alverno scholarship deadlines
| Entry term | Due |
|---|---|
| Admission | Rolling — apply at any time |
Scores take roughly two to four weeks to arrive, and official reports sent to schools can take longer, so the last useful test date is several weeks before the printed deadline. Check which test dates still make it.
Where these numbers came from
Every figure on this page was read from Alverno College’s own published pages, linked below with the date we last confirmed them. We do not estimate a missing band or interpolate a value.
- A 2.3 is worth $18,000 a year — one of the most generous floors in this dataset relative to what it asks.
- The whole ladder spans $5,000, less than a third of what the floor pays.
- Alverno states the awards are given automatically on acceptance.
- Admission is rolling with no scholarship deadline.
- The GPA is unweighted.
- The top rung is printed as a closed 3.75 to 4.00 window; it is read as a floor here.
- No rung reads an ACT score.
- Alverno publishes no renewal GPA, only that the awards run four years.
Check before you rely on it. Grids change by entry year and schools update them without notice. This page is a reproduction with a date on it, not a guarantee, and it is not financial aid advice. ClutchACT is not affiliated with Alverno College.
Frequently asked questions
What ACT score do you need for a scholarship at Alverno?
Alverno College publishes a merit aid grid keyed to ACT score and GPA. See the tables on this page for the current bands.
Is Alverno test-optional?
Neither admission nor this grid reads a score. For merit aid the answer is different: the grid is keyed to unweighted GPA alone with no ACT anywhere. A student with no score reaches the $23,000 top rung at a 3.75 exactly as a 36 would. Being admitted without a score and qualifying for money without a score are two separate questions.
How much is a 30 on the ACT worth at Alverno?
On Alverno's published grid for the current cycle, an ACT of 30 with a 3.6 GPA qualifies for Deans' Scholarship at $22,000 a year, about $88,000 over four years if it renews.
Does Alverno superscore the ACT for scholarships?
Not stated, and it would not matter — the grid reads no score.
When are Alverno scholarship deadlines?
Admission: Rolling — apply at any time. The application and the official score report are both due by that date, and ACT scores take roughly two to four weeks to arrive — so the last useful test date is several weeks earlier than the deadline suggests.
Is this Alverno scholarship data current?
Every figure on this page was read from Alverno College's own published pages and last verified on 2026-10-25. The sources are linked at the bottom of the page with that date. Grids change by entry year, so check the source before relying on a figure for a decision.
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