An ACG provides up to $750 for the first year of undergraduate study and up to $1,300 for the second year of undergraduate study to full-time students who are U.S. citizens, eligible for a federal Pell Grant, and who had successfully completed a rigorous high school program, as determined by the state or local education agency and recognized by the Secretary of Education. Second year students must also have maintained a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0.

Eligibility

To receive an ACG, you must:

• be Pell Grant-eligible during the same award year;
• be enrolled at least half-time;
• be a first-year or second-year undergraduate student
  or a student in a certificate program of at least one year
  in a degree program at a two-year or four-year degree-granting institution;
• have completed a rigorous secondary school program of study; and
• if you are first-year student, you completed secondary school after January 1, 2006; not have been enrolled in ACG-eligible program while at or below age of compulsory school attendance; or
• if a second-year student, you completed secondary school after January 1, 2005 and have at least a 3.0 grade point average as of the end of the first year of undergraduate study

Visit www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/about/ac-smart/state-programs.html to see the recognized rigorous programs of secondary school study in your state .