Applicant must be an incoming high school graduate who is admitted to IPFW and who will earn an Indiana Core 40 or Academic Honors Diploma (residents of other states will be completing a college preparatory high school curriculum), and who: (a) ranks in the top 10% of their high school class and have a SAT score of 1800 or greater (ACT composite of 27 or greater with writing); or (b): is a graduate of any school with a 1950 SAT (ACT composite of 29 or greater with writing); or (c): was recognized as a valedictorian or salutatorian from a regionally or state-accredited high school.