This scholarship is open only to students are properly enrolled in the Department of Statistics and who have graduated from an accredited high school in one of the following states: Kansas, Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, or Texas. Preference will be given to strong students who meet criteria in the following order:
- Undergraduates who graduated from an accredited high school in rural Kansas.
- Undergraduates who graduated from an accredited high school in Kansas.
- Undergraduates who graduated from an accredited high school in one of the states listed above.
- Graduate students who graduated from an accredited high school in one of the states listed above and did undergraduate work in Engineering.