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Colleges and Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p>So Texas has this law that anyone who graduates in the top 10% is guaranteed admission into any state-funded school.</p>

<p>This causes some great public schools such as University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M to be half-filled with kids who are admitted under the top 10% rule and might even consider the school a "back up," which makes it extremely difficult for kids with good credentials who aren't necessarily in the top 10%, who REALLLYY want to go there, to be admitted at all.</p>

<p>So are we pretty much the only state who does this, or do a lot of your states have something similar?</p>

<p>This doesn't have much to do with Princeton besides the whole backup school thing, but just wondering...</p>

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<p>Oh, ABC did a report about that.</p>

<p>I spent some time at University of Texas at Austin. Though it was nice for about a week...the weather killed me. Campus food was also mediocre, only decent place was the Madam's Noodle place and the Crusty Anchor.</p>

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<p>haha seriously? i actually LOVE it there!
in fact, i love this rule.
it makes texans lucky =)</p>

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<p>top 4% of californians are guaranteed in at the UC's....</p>

<p>UC Davis offered just offered me a place and a generous amount of money...maybe i will go there if not accepted to princeton. :)</p>

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<p>oh wow never mind! californians are much more lucky then! =O
ut austin and texas a&m are great, but the UCs are awesome!</p>

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<p>MA has a program that if you do well (I don't know %) on the state mandated test, MCAS, you are guaranteed tuition at a state school. This isn't saying very much though, because MA public higher education isn't the best, and the tuition isn't very much anyway.</p>

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<p>UMASS Amherst is decent. Though I just got the application for the free waiver for state schools, and the extra 2 requirements are pretty low. I think you have to score 600+ on a SAT II? o_o</p>

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<p>The UCs are different--if you're in the top 4% of your high school class, you gain admission to a single UC, NOT of your choice. They often pick the worst UCs--I think it was Merced or Riverside this year, both of which are worse than UT-Austin.</p>

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<p>that is....if you are in bottom pool of ELC students.. </p>

<p>most of the ppl in our high school who are in top 4% got acceptance lettters from UC Davis, Irvine, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz even before we applied tehre.</p>

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<p>oh so they contact you?
that's so strange!</p>

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<p>top 5% into UFlorida & I qualify for the honors program, and with all my community college credits I could graduate in like 3 semesters with a bachelors :O</p>

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<p>im not sure, but i think Rutgers (state univ. of NJ) has a rule where ppl w/ certain credentials are guaranteed full tuition.</p>

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<p>isn't rutgers was a really nice state school?</p>

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<p>lol thats what they say, but i dunno. i personally don't want to go to a school where half of my class goes</p>

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<p>"that is....if you are in bottom pool of ELC students..</p>

<p>most of the ppl in our high school who are in top 4% got acceptance lettters from UC Davis, Irvine, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz even before we applied tehre."</p>

<p>Wrong. Either they're lying about the time they got acceptance letters, or the campus (or, for Berkeley, Regent's Scholarship notifications). Most ELC students do get into the better UCs, but this isn't necessarily because of the ELC status. Those students are often academically qualified (they wouldn't be getting ELC otherwise, usually), and usually don't have a problem getting into the upper UCs because of this.</p>

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<p>hey do that UT austin thing is valid for international applicants?</p>

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<p>it's top 10% for state residents...</p>