Southeastern Louisiana University: merit scholarships by ACT score

Reproduced in full from Southeastern Louisiana University’s own pages for Summer/Fall 2026 and forward entry. Nothing here is estimated: where the school states a benefit rather than a figure, that is what the table says.

Yes. Yes, and uniquely in this dataset Southeastern publishes the superscore as its own column with its own thresholds — two points higher than the single-sitting composite at every band. Accepting a superscore costs two points of credit, which is a trade a student can actually plan around.

“ACT Super Score Composite”

So the number that matters here is your superscore, not your best single test. Work out your superscore and look that score up in the grid above — it may sit a band higher than the one you have been planning around.

Comparing schools? See which colleges superscore for scholarships — 66 of 501 commit to it, 52 say they do not, and the rest never say.

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.

Every figure on this page was read from Southeastern Louisiana University’s own published pages, linked below with the date we last confirmed them. We do not estimate a missing band or interpolate a value.

• New Freshman Scholarships — Summer/Fall 2026 criteriaverified 2026-10-21
• Scholarship Retentionverified 2026-10-21
• First-Time Students — admission criteriaverified 2026-10-21

• The superscore penalty is the headline: a 31 superscore pays $3,750 where a 30 single-sitting pays $4,000. No other school here prices the two differently.
• A 24 ACT is a hard cliff. A 23 with a 4.0 GPA receives nothing from this programme — there is no GPA-only or class-rank alternative band.
• Every row requires the same 3.0 GPA, so improving a GPA beyond 3.0 cannot raise the award. Only the score can.
• The GPA used is the six-semester one, through junior year.
• A later score genuinely pays: Southeastern says an upgraded offer is applied automatically and the student is notified, if the better score arrives by August 1.
• The 30-hours-a-year renewal requirement excludes AP, CLEP and dual-enrolment credit, which catches well-prepared students who assume their incoming credit counts.
• Housing money is conditional on living on campus continuously from the first semester, and applies to residence halls, Southeastern Oaks and The Village.
• Louisiana TOPS is kept entirely on a separate page and never folded into these figures — the cleanest state-money separation of the Louisiana schools here. How TOPS interacts with this award is not published.
• Students completing 15 or more Southeastern dual enrolment credits can add $1,000 in the first year only, contingent on available funds.
• National Merit finalists and semi-finalists receive $1,000 a semester for eight semesters, on submitting proof of standing.
• Students admitted for Spring 2026 are evaluated under the prior criteria, which Southeastern does not publish on this page.
• Southeastern is silent on the Enhanced ACT, which is notable for a grid that takes effect in Summer/Fall 2026 and prices superscores explicitly.

• CentenaryAlso in LA
• Louisiana TechAlso in LA
• McNeeseAlso in LA
• Grambling StateAlso in LA
• RollinsAwards start at an ACT of 24
• WittenbergAwards start at an ACT of 22
• AlabamaAwards start at an ACT of 25
• Westminster (MO)Awards start at an ACT of 22

• Compare merit aid across schools — the same data, side by side.
• ACT scholarship calculator — run the numbers for a school not listed here.
• Test-optional doesn’t mean scholarship-optional — what skipping the ACT costs.
• How merit aid grids work — why the bands are steps.
• ACT superscore calculator — and whether it counts here.