Lehigh University

Founder's, Trustees' and Dean's scholarships

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Award
Founder’s and Trustees’ awards: full or half tuition. Dean’s awards: $15,000–$25,000 per year. Renewable up to eight consecutive semesters, or ten for a bona fide five-year program.
Timeline
  1. Nov 1Standing admission deadlines: Early Decision I
  2. Jan 1Early Decision II/Regular Decision . These named automatic merit awards require no additional application or separate scholarship deadline.
How to apply
Automatic consideration through Common App or Coalition with Scoir, including Lehigh questions/writing supplement, official transcript and school report with counselor recommendation, one teacher recommendation, and midyear/final reports as applicable. SAT/ACT scores are optional indefinitely. International applicants follow English-proficiency and financial-certification requirements.
What you'll need
  • No separate application: you are considered when you apply for admission
  • Recommendations
  • An essay
Who can apply
Full-time admitted students considered for exceptional academic achievement and leadership. No numeric entry GPA floor is published. Renewal requires at least 3.0 cumulative GPA and full-time undergraduate enrollment.
Good to know
Founder’s, Trustees’ and Dean’s are distinct Lehigh merit awards grouped with their different published values and shared renewal rules. Admission automatically provides consideration under the standing November 1/January 1 schedule. No future-cycle date is inferred.
Details
Test optional