Grants - Federal Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG)

The Academic Competitiveness Grant provides up to $750 for the first year of undergraduate study and up to $1,300 for the second year of undergraduate study. The program became available for the first time for the 2006-07 school year for first year students who graduated from high school after January 1, 2006 and for second year students who graduated from high school after January 1, 2005. The Academic Competitiveness Grant award is in addition to the student's Pell Grant award.

To be eligible for each academic year, a student must:

Note that the amount of the ACG, when combined with a Pell Grant, may not exceed the student's cost of attendance. In addition, if the number of eligible students is large enough that payment of the full grant amounts would exceed the program appropriation in any fiscal year, then the amount of the grant to each eligible student may be ratably reduced.

The ACG is available to undergraduate students who have successfully completed a 'rigorous secondary school program of study'.

Eligibility is determined upon TSTC's receipt of the processed FAFSA. Students should complete and file the FAFSA as soon as possible after January 1, but no later than February 15 to ensure maximum eligibility.