University of Louisiana at Monroe: merit scholarships by ACT score

Reproduced in full from University of Louisiana at Monroe’s own pages for 2026-27 entry. Nothing here is estimated: where the school states a benefit rather than a figure, that is what the table says.

Yes. Yes, and named for scholarship eligibility specifically rather than for admission. ULM also publishes its own ACT-to-SAT conversion chart.

“The highest ACT Composite/Super Score, or SAT Total Score is used to determine scholarship eligibility.”

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 University of Louisiana at Monroe’s own published pages, linked below with the date we last confirmed them. We do not estimate a missing band or interpolate a value.

• 2026-2027 Freshman Scholarships & Awardsverified 2026-10-21
• Out-of-State Warhawk Scholarshipverified 2026-10-21
• Maintaining Academic Scholarshipsverified 2026-10-21
• Beginning Freshmen & High School Studentsverified 2026-10-21

• The housing award is a voucher, not money: ULM says it 'will not roll over into a refund. It will only be used to cover residence hall and meal plan', and the student must live on campus.
• The Out-of-State Warhawk waiver carries a genuine SUBSCORE gate — ACT English of at least 15 and ACT Math of at least 16 on top of a 21 composite. Almost no grid in this dataset reaches below the composite like that.
• TOPS figures on ULM's page are explicitly 'estimates based on prior academic year', and ULM notes that TOPS requirements differ from its own.
• There is a cost-of-attendance clawback: if total aid exceeds it, ULM reduces aid in a stated order ending with state scholarships including TOPS.
• Online degree programmes are excluded outright, and switching to one after the first semester cuts the scholarship by 50%.
• A student receives only one Freshman Academic Scholarship, and declining it forfeits it for all future semesters.
• A 30 to 32 pays the same ULM money as a 31 to 32 — the separate rows on ULM's page differ only in the state TOPS estimate, which is excluded here, and ULM's own out-of-state table prints the band merged as 30-32.
• Scores at 30 and above earn a laptop, and 33 and above add a study abroad stipend of 'up to $4,500' from a donor fund — perks rather than contractual aid.
• The international grid is keyed to the SAT only, with no ACT bands at all, and pays different amounts from the domestic one.
• ULM is silent on the Enhanced ACT; its bands are ACT composite plus, for the waiver, English and Math subscores.

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• 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.