<p>All I can tell you is what we were told by Admissions in the sessions for Fall 2011 applicants and that auto admission status did not guaranty admission into any major other than UGS. </p>
<p>If you are saying that by being in the top 1-2% of your class meant that the rest of your app was ignored by certain colleges and you could glide into any major, maybe that was the unwritten, uncommunicated truth. I could see why it wasn’t publicized as official policy, because that is not fair. Not all valedictorians are equal because the competition (school to school) is not the same, nor are the curriculum or grading standards. </p>
<p>Said another way: validictorian of an academically underperforming school is not equal to validictorian at a college preparatory academy. If there are 100 students at the college prep academy and 98 of them attend college and graduate college in 4 years (year after year after year), being ranked #100 in the college prep school is the same as being #100 in a school with 400 students. </p>
<p>Admissions must look at the peer group in the high school and do holistic review to get the best students to attend Texas.</p>