Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG)
The Academic Competitiveness (AC) Grant is a need-based federal grant for high-ability freshman and sophomore students.
Details
- A FAFSA must be filed.
- A student must be receiving a Federal Pell Grant (and thus have an EFC of $4617 or less and be working on their first undergraduate degree); however, not all Pell recipients are ACG-eligible, since the ACG is also based on academic achievement.
- A student must be a first- or second-year, full-time, degree-seeking student.
- First-year students must have completed their secondary-school program after January of 2006.
- Second-year students must have completed their secondary-school program after January of 2005.
- Enrollment status is based upon the number of enrolled hours at the end of the first week of classes.
- A student must have completed a “rigorous” secondary-school program; second-year students must also have at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA.
- For the 2009-2010 academic year, $750 is the maximum award for first-year students; $1300 is the maximum award for second-year students.
- The ACG is a need-based award and thus counts towards fulfilling a student’s overall need figure.
