- ANNOUNCEMENT -
Academic
Competitiveness Grants
To meet the
growing need for improved math and science instruction, on Feb. 8,
2006 President Bush signed into law two new student grant
programs—the Academic Competitiveness
Grants and National Science and
Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grants.
General Requirements
To
qualify, students must be
- Eligible
for Federal Pell Grants;
- United
States citizens; and
- Full-time
students.
Academic Competitiveness Grants will be
available to students for their first and second years of college.
- Up to $750
will be awarded to eligible first-year students, and up to
$1,300 for second-year students.
- Students
must have completed a rigorous secondary school program of study
as established by a state or local educational agency and
recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education.
- Students
must be enrolled or accepted in a two- or four-year
degree-granting institution of higher education.
- First-year
students must not have been previously enrolled in a program of
undergraduate education and must have graduated from high school
after Jan. 1, 2006.
- Second-year
students must have graduated from high school after Jan. 1,
2005, and have had at least a cumulative 3.0 grade-point average
(GPA) during their first year of college.
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