<p>You need to be eligible for a Pell Grant in order to qualify for an ACG-- that means your EFC needs to be $4041 or under.</p>
<p>It may be that your EFC was too high. I do recall filling out those “rigorous” high school coursework questions last year when our EFC was Pell-eligible, though, but I don’t recall having to click ‘calculate’ instead of ‘submit’.</p>
<p>This document seems to imply that it’s the FAA (Financial Aid Administrator) that inputs the rigorous info on the student’s behalf in ACG eligible cases, using FAFSA or FAFSA renewal. It also indicates that the ‘rigorous’ fields aren’t correctable via FAFSA correction.</p>
<p>[IFAP</a> - Electronic Announcements](<a href=“http://www.ifap.ed.gov/eannouncements/0630HERAACGSMART.html]IFAP”>http://www.ifap.ed.gov/eannouncements/0630HERAACGSMART.html)</p>