How to: Secure pdf form that is emailed and later uploaded

We have a pdf form that will be posted on our website. Local college/university faculty will link to the form on their websites or just give students the link to our page. Students will fill the form and it will be emailed to a faculty member from their specific school. The faculty member then needs to review the form and select candidates to present for an internship. At that point, they need to upload the form back to our server.
This form will contain sensitive information and therefore needs to be secure during the filling, emailing, and uploading processes. The faculty member receiving it needs to be able to access it as does the person on our end that will do the final reviewing after it is uploaded back to us.
I have no idea how to even start. I've created interactive forms but have never embedded one in an website. The closest I've come is a recently created web application that filled a pdf form in the code-behind and then emailed it, but that didn't require any security.
Any help will be appreciated.

Yeah I kinda figured that... Really too bad. Seems lke it should be possible somehow. Anyway, do you all have any suggestions about the best way to combine a static form that is really just text fields and such (that comments and markup tools can be used in) with another page that is sections of narrative that would need to be able to flow?
Or better yet, a way to draw lines on to a form without using the comment and markup function?
I like your idea about connecting two forms - but I need to keep the final product as simple as possible. Once the user fills it out, they would be to be able to submit it and it show up as one file, even if that is just a flat file. I don't expect you all to tell me how to do this, but it would be nice to know its possible before I commit to the project and research. Thanks in advance.

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Thanks everyone for responding. I should have supplied more information.
I was hired by my client to create PDF forms that can be downloaded from their website, filled out electronically in Acrobat Reader, and then saved (with all the form fields filled in) and emailed.
I was supplied with scanned forms as the base for creating the form fields in Acrobat Pro. These web visitors that will be filling out the forms and emailing them will only have Acrobat Reader, most likely.
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