Originally Posted by Val
... what percentage of scholarships are lost at the end of each year (x% of ending freshmen, etc,)... what's required on average to retain the required GPA --- by subject area.
This article appearing online for Time/Money, by Jacob Davidson, titled "3 Mistakes That Will Cost You a College Scholarship", dated September 3, 2014 gives a brief glimpse: between 5% to more than 40% of students lose renewable annual scholarships. Engineering, computing, and natural science students, and those with athletic scholarships are said to be less likely to retain renewable annual scholarships for all 4 years.

It would be great to have full transparency: college websites revealing a 5-year history of their student body's financial aid statistics, including retention of merit scholarships by school/discipline and scholarship type.