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<p>An exception may be Texas public high school students in the top N% of their class who can use UT Austin as a safety if they can afford it. N is described here: [Automatic</a> Admission | Be a Longhorn](<a href=“http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/freshmen/after-you-apply/automatic-admission]Automatic”>http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/freshmen/after-you-apply/automatic-admission)</p>
<p>Other Texas public universities like Texas A&M also have automatic admission thresholds based on rank or rank and test scores.</p>
<p>(However, students seeking impacted majors like engineering majors at UT Austin are not necessarily automatically admitted to the major, even if they are automatically admitted to the campus.)</p>
<p>Another exception is University of Alabama, which has published merit scholarship thresholds (presuming that students with the stats to get the automatic merit scholarships will be admitted as well). It is ranked in the usual ranking lists, though perhaps not in the top 10 or so that people on these forums tend to obsess about.</p>