(a) Eligibility for the Second Effort Scholarship Program shall be based on the criteria set forth in this section as well as program rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this subchapter by the Department of Higher Education.
(b) A student shall be eligible for an award from this program if he or she meets all of these criteria:
(1) The recipient shall be at least eighteen (18) years of age or a former member of a high school class which has graduated;
(2) The recipient shall have been a resident of the State of Arkansas for at least twelve (12) months prior to successful completion of the General Educational Development Test;
(3) The recipient must be a citizen of the United States or be a permanent resident alien;
(4) The recipient must be accepted for admission at an approved postsecondary school or college as a freshman, as defined by the Department of Higher Education, and must enroll in an approved institution within eighteen (18) months following passage of a high school equivalency test;
(5) The recipient must have passed a high school equivalency test in the calendar year prior to application for the scholarship; and
(6) (A) The recipient must have scored in the top ten (10) of all Arkansans who took a high school equivalency test in the calendar year prior to application for the scholarship, as certified to the Department of Higher Education by the Adult Education Section of the Department of Career Education.
(B) Provided, however, that the Department of Higher Education is authorized to award a high school equivalency scholarship to an otherwise eligible student who scored in the top twenty-five (25) on the previous calendar year's high school equivalency test if all test-takers scoring above the applicant on a high school equivalency test:
(i) Have either received a scholarship;
(ii) Have not applied by the application deadline; or
(iii) Are otherwise ineligible to receive a scholarship.
(c) In no case, however, shall the Department of Higher Education award more than ten (10) scholarships per year.
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