National Alumni Scholarship
ListedCollege programFull tuition
- Award
- Full-tuition National Alumni Scholarship, renewable for an additional three years with full-time enrollment and the required minimum cumulative GPA. Award supersedes Presidential merit; no NAS-specific numeric renewal GPA is published.
- Timeline
- Dec 1, 2026At CST for admission/checklist and separate NAS application
- Nov 1, 2026Application opens
- How to apply
- Start and complete admission, all admission checklist items and the separate National Alumni Scholarship application. Invited semifinalists complete a scholarship interview to compete for full tuition or one of three Carpenter awards.
- What you'll need
- A separate scholarship application
- Who can apply
- Enter directly from high school in summer or fall and have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.8 on a 4.0 scale. Academic achievement, leadership, service, initiative, commitment and love of learning are considered. No citizenship restriction, top-5% substitute or weighted-GPA exception is stated on the current award page.
- Good to know
- Current official page explicitly opens November 1, 2026 and closes both complete admission/checklist and NAS application December 1, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. CST. Invited virtual semifinalist interviews are February 2, 4, 7, 9 or 11, 2027. Full tuition replaces Presidential and renews another three years under full-time enrollment and required GPA; do not apply Carpenter's specific 3.25 to NAS without individual confirmation. Restricted fall/spring tuition awards cannot exceed tuition. The page retains stale January 29, 2026 notification and deadline-passed boilerplate plus a 20256 typo; no corrected notification date is inferred.