Other Impacts to Scholarship Renewal

In addition to not meeting overall GPA and earned hours requirements, there are some other circumstances in which your scholarship may change or be canceled.

If you withdraw from any courses for the semester after the add/drop period has passed for the course, you will receive a 'W' for the courses. A 'W' does not count as earned credit hours toward your 30-credit hour requirement for renewal. Make sure you keep this in mind if withdrawing because you may need to add additional courses to achieve your 30 earned hours. You may consider adding courses for spring (if you receive the 'W' for fall), adding mid-semester courses, or taking summer courses.

If you withdraw from all of your courses for the semester, your aid may be reduced. Aid is paid out with the expectation that you will finish the classes. Visit our Withdrawal and Aid Changes webpage for the impact on your institutional scholarships/grants if you withdraw from all courses during the semester or unofficially withdraw (such as stopping attendance).

Students taking an official, approved leave of absence from the University must also request to defer their scholarship, with appropriate supporting documentation for review. Leaves of absence may be granted from the program for medical reasons and the student provides a written statement from a physician.

For other leave of absence requests, students may submit for consideration the Scholarship Exception Request Form. More information about Scholarship Exception Requests can be found on our Scholarship Exception Requests webpage.

Students must notify the WVU Hub of their intent to enroll at least six weeks prior to returning to WVU. A student on leave of absence may typically have their eligibility extended by one academic year.

Starting with incoming, first-time students for the fall 2020 semester, the following scholarships are all portable between WVU campuses (Morgantown, Beckley, and Keyser). This means that if you have them on one of our campuses and transfer to another, the scholarship goes with you. The amounts will adjust based on the campus.

• Climb Higher Scholarship
• Go First Scholarship
• Distinguished Achievement Scholarship
• Diversity Scholarship
• International Scholarship
• Leadership Scholarship (no adjustment on the amount)
• Scholarship of Distinction
• Transfer Scholarship

However, all other institutional scholarships/grants cannot be used if you change to another WVU campus.  Please be aware that incoming students majoring in  online programs of study are not eligible for institutional scholarships. Students beginning in on-campus majors will lose their institutional scholarship eligibility if they switch to an online program of study at any point.

Certain college scholarships for incoming students may be impacted if you change your program of study.

2024-2025 Information

• For the Innovators Scholarship, if you change to a major outside of the Statler College, Davis College, Chambers College, or the Reed College the scholarship will be canceled.

If you are receiving a scholarship as a non-resident of West Virginia, your scholarship may be impacted in any circumstance where you are being assessed a reduced tuition rate. This may be through a program such as Ohio Reciprocity or through WVU programs that do not assess full non-resident tuition and fees.

If you receive reduced tuition rates and have the following institutional scholarships/grants:

• Climb Higher Scholarship recipients will see their scholarship canceled.
• Innovators Scholarship recipients will see their scholarship canceled.
• Scholarship of Distinction Level 1 recipients will see their scholarship replaced with a Distinguished Achievement Scholarship of a lower value, due to your reduced educational costs. All other levels of the Scholarship of Distinction will see their scholarship canceled.
• Transfer Scholarship Level 1 recipients will have the amount of their scholarship lowered due to reduced educational costs. All other levels of the scholarship will see their scholarship canceled.
• Excellence and Dean's scholarship recipients will see their scholarship value replaced with amount offered to WV residents.
• WVU System Connection Scholarships may be reduced or canceled depending on the original intent of the offer.

For students pursuing a bachelor's degree, institutional scholarship/grant eligibility ends if the student moves on to a graduate-level program.

Values will be adjusted accordingly if students change between associate or bachelor's degree programs. Changing between associate degree programs can also impact how long you may receive the scholarship. Students admitted into a bachelor's degree program may receive this scholarship up to a total of 8 semesters, or until completion of a first bachelor's degree — whichever comes first. Students admitted into an associate degree program may receive this scholarship up to a total of 4 semesters, or until completion of a first associate degree — whichever comes first. If an associate degree student is admitted into a bachelor's degree program, they may then receive any remaining semesters up to a total of eight semesters, or until completion of a first bachelor's degree — whichever comes first.