Falon Little, a senior at TMI – The Episcopal School of Texas, has received an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. The appointment is equivalent to a full, four-year scholarship at the Academy, where graduates are prepared to become professional Air Force officers.

Little serves as Battalion Commander of the Texas Military Institute Corps of Cadets, the top-ranking student officer of the school’s JROTC unit and attended the Academy’s summer program last summer.

Appointments to the Academy are awarded to only about 1,200 of 9,700 applicants. Little has accepted and will report to the Academy on June 26, 2014.