Does assured admission apply only to Texas residents?

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I’m in the process of applying to Texas Tech and was under the impression that assured admission applied to all US students, but it’s dawning on me that that may not be the case.

On their website it says “You are assured admission if you are graduating from an accredited high school and present the required combination of high school class rank and college entrance test scores indicated below”, following with a chart showing that anyone in the top 10% regardless of test scores is assured admission.

So does the “accredited high school” refer only to Texas schools? I’m just trying to figure out if I need to write the optional essays lol (I am in the top 10% of my class, but I am OOS). Thank you!

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I believe that it applies to Texas residents only. Texas has a Top 10% rule which states that if you are within the top
10 percent of your class, you will be an auto-admit to all public Texas universities (excluding UT), however touch up with the university on this. Im pretty sure it only applies to In-state students but it may apply to OOS as well! Good luck!

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Thank you

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The top 10% (or 7% or 6% at UT Austin) rule is for Texas residents.

However, campuses may have extended auto-admit criteria that may include non-Texas residents. Check each campus of interest.

For example, Texas A&M has top 10% rank auto-admit for Texas residents (“Top 10% Admits”), but an additional way of auto-admit based on rank and test scores that does not specify that one needs to be a Texas resident (“Academic Admits”). See http://admissions.tamu.edu/freshman/admitted .

Note, however, that auto-admit to a campus does not necessarily mean admission to one’s intended major.

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@ucbalumnus Yeah, there’s nowhere on Texas Tech’s website that specifies Texas residents but I wasn’t sure. I just have a lot to do by Dec1 and wasn’t really planning on having to write 2 additional essays lol (which are only suggested if one doesn’t qualify for Assured Admission). I don’t want to risk not getting in because I was misinformed, but it appears that it’s not just Texas residents, so thank you!