<p>Not Necessarily, a well deserving student(not calling your friend un-deserving, but I mean the ones who are really top notch but are just shadowed by the competition) at a competitive high school will get in. So you have these Harvard Kids applying who just aren’t in the top 10%+ the 10% kids…which makes it a crap shoot if you’re smart.
So As a result, the OOS students are top top notch, so UT end up getting better students then it deserves, which is quickly boosting its rank in both World and US colleges by 1-4 spaces a year.</p>