Nonresident merit scholarships
ListedCollege program
- Award
- Fall 2027 domestic nonresident annual awards by weighted GPA: 3.50–3.74 $8,000; 3.75–3.94 $14,000; 3.95–4.29 $15,000; 4.30+ $22,000. Renewable up to four years/eight semesters, usually fall and spring only. The required renewal GPA is specified in each financial aid offer and is reviewed after spring; it is not published numerically for these awards here.
- Deadline
- Complete admission application, including transcript and recommendation, by the December 1, 2026 priority deadline for Fall 2027 merit consideration. Later consideration depends on availability.
- How to apply
- Automatic consideration with a complete admission application by the priority deadline; no separate general merit application. SAT/ACT are optional for general merit. Honors and Presidential Fellows applicants must opt in and report test scores for Fall 2027 consideration.
- What you'll need
- No separate application: you are considered when you apply for admission
- Recommendations
- Who can apply
- Qualified domestic first-year students enrolling full-time at the Oxford campus in fall. Miami uses weighted GPA on a 4.0 scale from the transcript and recalculates it with course-difficulty weighting when the school does not provide one. Awards are not guaranteed. International students use the separate international scholarship rules.
- Good to know
- Full award generally requires at least 12 undergraduate credits; reduced enrollment requires approved appeal and proration. Changing to a regional campus forfeits the Oxford award for those semesters. Internships/co-ops without full-time tuition do not use an award semester; graduation and additional aid can affect eligibility. Prodesse for selected Honors students is separate from this domestic GPA table.