Eligibility
Accelerate, Complete, Engage (ACE) Program eligibility criteria and majors.
Criteria
You may be eligible for ACE if you answer YES to the following questions:
- Are you an incoming freshman or transfer student with an associate degree from any institution (CUNY or other)?
- Are you a New York State resident and/or eligible for in-state tuition?
- Plan to declare one of the majors below?
- Completed the FAFSA using York College Code 004759 and the New York State Tuition Assistance Program application (TAP) using college code 1418?
- Students under the New York Dream Act may be eligible to receive state aid, including TAP, Excelsior, and other state-administered scholarships. Visit the DREAM Act website for eligibility and to apply.
(*Students not receiving financial aid due to immigration status may join ACE but will not receive a tuition gap scholarship.)
Note: Students cannot participate in ACE and SEEK. New transfer students who are confirmed to participate in SEEK are not eligible to apply to ACE.
| Major | Freshman | Transfer |
|---|---|---|
| Aviation Management | Eligible | Ineligible |
| Biology | Eligible | Ineligible |
| Biotechnology | Eligible | BMCC and QBCC joint degree transfers only (A.S in Biotechnology) |
| Business Administration | Eligible | Eligible with completion of introduction to Business, Principles of Accounting and Macroeconomics |
| Community Health Education | Eligible | QBCC joint degree transfers (A.S in Public Health) |
| Computer Science | Eligible | Ineligible |
| English | Eligible | Eligible with completion of English composition 1 &2 |
| Finance | Eligible | Eligible with completion of Fundamentals of Finance, Principles of accounting and Macroeconomics |
| Health Science | Eligible | Ineligible |
| Journalism | Eligible | Eligible with completion of Introduction to Journalism |
| Marketing | Eligible | Eligible with completion of Introduction of marketing, Macroeconomics and Principles of Accounting |
| Mathematics | Eligible | Ineligible |
| Movement Science | Eligible | Ineligible |
| Political Science | Eligible | Eligible with completion of Introduction to Politics |
| Pharmaceutical Science | Ineligible | QBCC joint degree transfers only (A.S in Chemistry) |
| Psychology | Eligible | Eligible with completion of introduction to psychology |
| Public Health | Ineligible | LAGCC, BMCC, QCC joint degree transfers only (A.S in Public Health or A.S in Public and Community Health) minimum of a 3.0 GPA |
| Social Work | Eligible * | Acceptance into Social Work program, include successful application, minimum GPA of 2.7; completion of SCWK 101, SCWK 203 and 293* |
| Sociology | Eligible | Eligible with completion of introduction to sociology |
| Studio Art | Eligible | Ineligible |
* Application required
** Double majoring is not a possibility
