<p>I understand how it can be frustrating, and lucky for you being in a competitive high school did not hurt your chances. </p>
<p>I’m top 1% so I did not have to worry about the border line admission chances, but many of my friends did have that stress. Some were lucky enough to get into A&M, others not. I will say this: do not be surprised if you do not get into A&M, but if I had to take a guess, you are in. Hopefully, your luck from UT admissions will carry over.</p>
<p>aGGieENGiNeeR - Oh man, lucky. Yeah, I’ll just try my best to wait! And I’m sorry if I sounded rude to you (or anyone else :X) on here, I didn’t mean to at all…</p>
<p>You were not. I know waiting for schools to reply can cause quite the anxiety!</p>
<p>the top 10% was created to allow for kids in low performing school to be able to go to top colleges in Texas. It isn’t fair that a college like UT scoop up every applicant from a high school like, for example Belaire and ignore other high schools. It was meant to allow a more rounded population at the state universities. I can see your point of view, not fair that you are at a top high school and you feel it is unfair that kids from lower ranking schools to be admitted in the top 10% rule. It is a sticky wicket…
There are other issues as well, one issue my daughter ran into was not all high schools weight ap courses the same. In her high school, ap courses were weighted no differently than regular courses. This meant for her that there were a good percentage of kids in the top 10% that never took an advanced course. There were a few close to valendictorian level that never took anything but the recommended graduation plan classes. This really wasn’t fair and it has now been corrected. The kids intentionally did not take ap or dual credit classes to remain in the top 10% and gain acceptance to UT & A&M. Playing the games and it worked out for them.
The top 10% rule did its job though. There are tons of kids at top universities and these universities I believe have gained from this. What Texas needs now is more Tier 1 Universities to even out the 10% load UT & A&M have - and then allow them to be more selective with their student population.
UT actually had some rule changes on the top 10% and maybe you gained admission on that change.</p>
<p>klparker312 - When schools weigh AP and regular courses the same, that’s flat out not fair. I hope your daughter got into her choice of school despite that! Idk, I heard UT is changing their top 10% rule for the next academic school year…or maybe they did already, I have no idea. It’s hard for everyone to agree on one method of admitting students to universities…sometimes it makes me wish we all went to one really huge high school! Except not really haha</p>
<p>yes - my daughter was accepted into A&M college of architecture early admission as a review admit. She was in top 12%.</p>
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<p>Nah. I’m currently a freshman at A&M looking to transfer to UT next year. </p>
<p>Top 10% rule is going to change to top 8% next year. Not like it’s going to help any. -_-</p>