Application Process

ACE applications are state specific and can be accessed through our website: https://www.acescholarships.org/become-a-scholar/. Additionally, ACE applications have the ACE logo on the landing page of the application as well as in the top left corner of the application itself. 

If you are unsure if you have applied for ACE or your school’s own grant and aid application in FACTS, please contact ACE by emailing support@acescholarships.org to confirm or calling (856) 746-6521.

Nonprofit organization with a mission to provide children of lower-income families with scholarships to private schools.

• Can answer questions about applying, qualifications, awards and award amounts, funds disbursement, timelines, partner school lists, etc.
• Utilizes FACTS for scholarship applications 

FACTS provides tools and solutions to private K-12 schools that elevate the education experience for administrators, teachers, and families. It is the platform ACE uses to process all applications.

• Can answer questions about uploading documents, incomplete applications, school FACTS applications vs ACE FACTS applications, etc.

(856) 746-6521 is a dedicated support line and routes to either ACE or FACTS depending upon the prompt selected. Please call! Both are here to help. 

Step 1. Apply/Enroll your student in one of ACE’s partner schools in your area. To see current partner schools, learn more about ACE, and see a list of requirements, please visit here, then scroll down to select your state.

Step 2. Apply for an ACE Scholarship on FACTS. You can find the link to apply here.

Step 3. Make sure that you have submitted your application (including all the correct documents and all application questions) on FACTS by the deadline (April 15th, 2025 at 11:59 PM in the time zone in which the school you are applying to resides).

Step 4. After you submit your application, you will have to wait a few days while FACTS processes your application and documents. FACTS will reach out to you via email if additional information is needed or if your application is complete. ACE will review applications after the application window closes on April 15.

Step 5. ACE will send out award notifications to families over the summer before the school year begins. (Schools will be notified after we have finished allocating awards and finalizing them.)

If awarded, you will receive a link to accept the award and complete a survey. Complete this by the deadline.

Step 6. We will reach out to the school to confirm the awarded students’ enrollment in early September and send funds to the school directly once enrollment is confirmed. Families are responsible for working out a payment plan with the school for the remainder of the tuition that the award does not cover.

Yes, all returning families must reapply each year to confirm their intent to continue to utilize the award in subsequent years. Additionally, students awarded in Louisiana as well as awarded a tax-credit scholarship in Arkansas, must continue to meet eligibility requirements.

The ACE Scholarship application for the 2025-2026 school year was opened on Monday, February 3rd, and closed on Tuesday, April 15th at 11:59 p.m. Please look for the 2026-2027 ACE application to open in early 2026. The link for the application will be posted on our website at https://www.acescholarships.org/become-a-scholar/. Please select your state in the dropdown, and you will be redirected to the webpage with your state-specific eligibility requirements as well as a link to the application.

You've decided to take control of your student's education and want to apply for an ACE Scholarship! Here are some tips to help you ensure that your application has the best chance possible of receiving an ACE Scholarship:

• Make sure that your contact information on your FACTS account is accurate and stays updated!
• Double check that FACTS is listed as a "Safe Sender" in your email. Otherwise important communications about your application may end up in your junk folder!
• When you upload any tax, SNAP, Social Security, TANF, etc. documents to your application, make sure that they are not blurry.

-If the documents are to blurry or hard to read on a computer, it will delay the process, potentially even making you ineligible for a scholarship!

-The document being uploaded must include the applicant's name, the amount received, and the frequency in which it's being received (i.e. Monthly or Annually). If the document doesn’t include this info it will be rejected and will slow down the completion process of the application.

• Get the application done early! If you run into any issues while applying, our staff can help before the deadline (April 15th) but there is nothing we can do after the application has closed.

• Review your application before you submit it. Sometimes small mistakes that you make on your application (such as listing the wrong grade level or school for your student) can mistakenly make your student ineligible for a scholarship.

• If you are a returning applicant, you must use the same username and password from the prior year in order for your child to be recognized as a returning student and carry forward applicant, co-applicant, and student data.

• If you have questions as you apply, don't hesitate to contact us! We are happy to help you.

For any questions on the process, please contact (856) 746-6521 or support@acescholarships.org. You will be routed to either ACE or FACTS depending on the nature of your question.

To apply, visit https://www.acescholarships.org/become-a-scholar/

After you submit your application, it will take FACTS time to process your application and documents. This can take a couple of days/up to two weeks. FACTS will reach out to you via email if additional information is needed or if your application is complete. For this reason, it is important to complete your application prior to the deadline if possible, to ensure that the documents you have provided are accepted and readable by FACTS and that your application is complete in its entirety by the deadline (April 15, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. in the time zone in which your school resides).

• Please be aware that you will receive an email from FACTS, not from ACE about the status of your application.
• To ensure that you receive communications from FACTS, please ensure that the email you provided on your application in FACTS is correct and your preferred email.
• Be sure to check your spam/junk folder in your email if you think you may have missed a communication from FACTS.

ACE will review complete applications after the application window closes and all documents have been processed by FACTS.

Unfortunately, we are no longer accepting applications for the 2025-2026 school year at this time. The deadline to complete the application for ACE Scholarships was 11:59 p.m. on April 15th, 2025. You are more than welcome to try and reapply once applications open in 2026 for the 2026-2027 school year.

Scholarships can follow a student to a school other than what was selected as the preference school on your ACE application. Transferring the scholarship to a different ACE partner school must be done prior to enrollment verification for the following semester.

Here are the steps you need to take:

1.  Ensure that the new school is an ACE partner school. You can see a list of ACE’s partner schools here: https://www.acescholarships.org/become-a-scholar/ (scroll down to select your state).

If their school is not an ACE partner school, unfortunately they will not be able to transfer the ACE award their new school.

2. Contact ACE Scholarships via email (support@acescholarships.org) or phone (856-746-6521) to let us know you would like to change the school. We will then change your listed school to “Undecided” on your application. 

3. Login into your ACE application in FACTS and update the preferred school to the correct one.

If you have any questions or need assistance in adding the school, you can contact FACTS at 856-746-6521.

4. Contact ACE Scholarships to let us know once you have changed the school. Then we will be able to finalize the change. 

*Please note: since awards are tuition based, the award amount may change based on the new school’s tuition amount.