Marietta College: merit scholarships by GPA
Marietta College awards automatic merit aid from a published grid keyed to GPA — the ACT is not used. Awards reach $26,000 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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No score is used — Marietta awards these on the high school GPA alone, automatically on the admission application, and states they are made regardless of financial need. Recipients must enrol full-time in their first bachelor's degree programme. The ladder is bottom-heavy: the top two bands are $1,000 apart and the bottom two $5,000 apart, so a point of GPA is worth far more at the low end than the high end. Marietta publishes a separate international grid with different figures on the same page.
Unweighted, as the school asks for it.
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Example — a 3.60 GPA
Marietta Distinction
$25,000 / year
About $100,000 over four years, if it renews.
Marietta 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 Marietta merit aid grid
Reproduced in full from Marietta College’s own pages for Fall 2027 and Spring 2028 entry. Nothing here is estimated: where the school states a benefit rather than a figure, that is what the table says.
First-year scholarships
Automatic on the admission application with no separate form, and notified at the time of admission. Recipients must enrol full-time in a first bachelor's degree.
$26,000
1835 Founders
No score needed · GPA 4.00
$25,000
Marietta Distinction
No score needed · GPA 3.60
$22,000
Compass
No score needed · GPA 3.30
$19,000
Riverside
No score needed · GPA 2.95
$14,000
Pioneer
No score needed · GPA 1.00
| Award | With a score | No score | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1835 Founders | — | GPA 4.00 | $26,000 |
| Marietta Distinction | — | GPA 3.60 | $25,000 |
| Compass | — | GPA 3.30 | $22,000 |
| Riverside | — | GPA 2.95 | $19,000 |
| Pioneer | — | GPA 1.00 | $14,000 |
Source: First-Year Scholarships, Fall 2027 and Spring 2028 · verified 2026-10-21
Does Marietta superscore for scholarships?
Not stated, and moot — no Marietta merit band uses a 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 Marietta’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.
Where these numbers came from
Every figure on this page was read from Marietta 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.
- Moving from a 2.94 to a 2.95 is worth $5,000 a year; moving from a 3.99 to a 4.00 is worth $1,000.
- Awarded regardless of financial need, and notified at the time of admission.
- No separate scholarship application — the admission application is the whole process.
- Recipients must enrol full-time in their first bachelor's degree programme.
- Marietta publishes a separate international scholarship grid on the same page with its own figures.
- The Fall 2027 and Spring 2028 dating makes this one of the current grids in this dataset.
- Marietta is silent on the Enhanced ACT.
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 Marietta College.
Frequently asked questions
What ACT score do you need for a scholarship at Marietta?
Marietta College publishes a merit aid grid keyed to ACT score and GPA. See the tables on this page for the current bands.
Is Marietta test-optional?
Not stated on the scholarship page. No merit band here uses a score. For merit aid the answer is different: not used. Marietta states the awards are based on the high school GPA, and no ACT threshold appears anywhere in the criteria. 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 Marietta?
On Marietta's published grid for Fall 2027 and Spring 2028 entry, an ACT of 30 with a 3.6 GPA qualifies for Marietta Distinction at $25,000 a year, about $100,000 over four years if it renews.
Does Marietta superscore the ACT for scholarships?
Not stated, and moot — no Marietta merit band uses a score.
Is this Marietta scholarship data current?
Every figure on this page was read from Marietta College's own published pages and last verified on 2026-10-21. 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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Marietta awards on GPA — but the ACT still decides what you're worth elsewhere.
Most schools in this comparison are score-keyed even though Marietta is not, so the same test still moves the money everywhere else on the list.
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