{"answer":"63 colleges publish a merit scholarship grid that ties the award to an SAT or ACT score and a GPA, and those grids hold 340 separate tiers. At the automatic ones the score and the GPA decide the money, not a committee.","as_of":"October 2026","date":"2026-10-15","dek":"The tables give the top tier and the lowest scoring tier of each automatic grid, plus the largest award at each college that makes you apply. They do not hold all 340 tiers, and a grid can change for the next class.","faq":[{"a":"63 colleges publish a merit scholarship grid that ties the award to an SAT or ACT score and a GPA, and those grids hold 340 separate tiers.","q":"Which colleges give a scholarship based on SAT or ACT score?"},{"a":"Some grids are automatic: hit the numbers, get the money. Others are competitive, where the numbers only get the file read.","q":"Are these scholarships guaranteed?"},{"a":"A grid often pays an out-of-state student more, because the college is competing for that student.","q":"Is the award bigger for out-of-state students?"}],"findings":[{"h":"At an automatic grid, the chart decides the award.","p":"Texas Tech prints a tier for every pairing of GPA and score. A 3.96 GPA with a 1500 SAT or a 34 ACT pays $9,000 a year. A 3.0 GPA with an 1100 SAT or a 22 ACT pays $1,000. Alabama in Huntsville runs the same way: its Jupiter C tier pays $2,000 at an 1060 SAT with a 3.5 GPA, and its Juno I tier covers full in-state tuition at a 1390 SAT with a 4.0."},{"h":"The same scores often pay more to an out-of-state student.","p":"Missouri's top tier pays $21,500 a year to an out-of-state student at a 1400 SAT or a 30 ACT. The in-state tier at those same scores pays $7,200. West Virginia's Climb Higher Level 1 pays $17,000 out of state and $5,000 in state, both at a 1360 SAT. Alabama at Birmingham pays $28,500 to an out-of-state student with a 1420 SAT and a 4.0 GPA."},{"h":"The biggest named scholarships are not automatic.","p":"Duke's Robertson, Emory's Woodruff and USC's Trustee all cover tuition or more, and all of them take an application and a committee. USC asks a 1500 SAT or a 34 ACT just to be in the running. On those grids a score is a bar to clear, not a promise."}],"license":"CC BY 4.0 \u2014 quote with attribution to Test Prep Gurus (High School Reach)","method":"Every row is one tier of one college's own published scholarship grid, with the score bar, the GPA bar, the residency it applies to, the award, the college's page and the date the row was read. The file holds 340 tier rows across 63 colleges. The first table takes the largest automatic award at each college, reading a full-tuition award as the top one; the second takes the lowest tier with a published SAT floor at each college; the third takes the largest competitive award at each college. No tier was merged or recalculated, and the remaining tiers of each grid sit on the college's own page. A college that publishes no grid is not in the file.","question":"Which colleges publish a guaranteed or tiered merit scholarship by SAT/ACT score and GPA?","related":[{"label":"Merit scholarships by score and GPA","url":"/merit-scholarships"},{"label":"Do test scores still matter?","url":"/test-scores"},{"label":"State merit scholarships: the GPA and test score each state requires","url":"/research/state-merit-scholarships"},{"label":"What score gains look like at Test Prep Gurus","url":"https://www.prepgurus.com/results-at-test-prep-gurus"}],"sections":[{"h2":"What a score grid is","paragraphs":["A score grid is a chart a college publishes that pairs an SAT or ACT score and a GPA with an award. Some grids are automatic: hit the numbers, get the money. Others are competitive, where the numbers only get the file read.","63 colleges publish one, and their grids hold 340 tiers between them. Most of these colleges are public universities, and many are in the South and the Plains. The private colleges on the list mostly run named, competitive awards instead."]},{"h2":"How to read a row","paragraphs":["Three things in a row change the money. A grid often pays an out-of-state student more, because the college is competing for that student. The test matters too, since a grid usually names an SAT score and an ACT score for the same tier.","The third is what the award covers. Some rows carry a dollar figure a year. Others carry words, such as full in-state tuition, because the award tracks a price that moves. A blank is not a zero. It means the college does not publish that piece."]},{"h2":"What a family should do with this","paragraphs":["Open the grid on the college's own page, the link in the last column, and find the tier your student's current score and GPA land in. Then look at the tier above it. The difference between those two rows is the money a higher score would add, and it is the clearest reason to sit the test again.","Then check three details on that page: whether the award renews each year and what GPA it takes to keep it, whether an application is needed, and the date the grid applies to. A grid can change for the next entering class, so read the one for your student's year."]}],"slug":"merit-scholarship-score-grids","sources":[{"label":"Reach: merit scholarships by score and GPA","url":"https://highschoolreach.com/merit-scholarships"},{"label":"University of Alabama in Huntsville freshman academic scholarships","url":"https://www.uah.edu/admissions/undergraduate/financial-aid/scholarships/freshmen/freshman-in-state-academic-scholarships"},{"label":"Each row links the college's own scholarship page in the table","url":"https://highschoolreach.com/merit-scholarships"}],"tables":[{"columns":[{"fmt":"str","key":"college","label":"College"},{"fmt":"str","key":"state","label":"State"},{"fmt":"str","key":"scholarship_name","label":"Scholarship"},{"fmt":"str","key":"tier_label","label":"Tier"},{"fmt":"str","key":"residency","label":"Who it is for"},{"fmt":"int","key":"sat_min","label":"SAT needed"},{"fmt":"int","key":"act_min","label":"ACT needed"},{"fmt":"str","key":"gpa_min","label":"GPA needed"},{"fmt":"str","key":"gpa_scale","label":"GPA scale"},{"fmt":"money","key":"annual_amount","label":"A year"},{"fmt":"str","key":"amount_label","label":"What it covers"},{"fmt":"url","key":"source_url","label":"The college's grid"}],"h2":"The top tier of each automatic grid","intro":"One row per college: the largest automatic award its own grid publishes.","link_base":"/colleges/","note":"Automatic means the college states the award follows from the score and the GPA. 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