<p>I heard from a source that he talked to an admissions officer and said that 95% of the admitted students in this year were top 10%. I have also heard 86%. Can anyone confirm these percentages? I would assume this helps people on the waitlist because many top 10% just chose UT as a backup.</p>
<p>College</a> Search - University of Texas at Austin - UT - At a Glance</p>
<p>scroll down and ull see it says 75%</p>
<p>I think those were last years numbers...</p>
<p>yea those are last years</p>
<p>these are for entering freshmen from Texas High Schools: 71% in 2007 and 81% in 2008</p>
<p>scroll down to the 9th page</p>
<p>This link might be of interest ...</p>
<p>yea thats all pretty good info but its all also not on the incoming 2009 freshmen</p>
<p>Maybe 95% of those admitted were from the top 10% and they anticipate that 86% of those actually enrolling in the fall will be from the top 10%, up from 81% in fall 2008.</p>
<p>Ummmm actuallyyyy...</p>
<p>Sultan316 - 86% is the percentage of freshman actually going to UT for the 2008-09 year that were automatically admitted by the top 10% rule - as opposed to the 81% of the 2007-2008 school year. This isn't the top10%ers to nontop10%ers ratio of those OFFERED ADMISSION </p>
<p>gpowsang - the 75% means that of all undergraduates, 75% are in the top 10%. Its lower than the fresman average because the top10% admit has climbed from ~50% and ~60% to what it is now: high 80%</p>
<p>So sultan316, I've never heard that 95% stat before - except that collegeboard says 95% of those attending UT are instate vs 5% - so your "source" may be telling the truth.</p>
<p>Percentages for those ADMITTED are different from those actually ATTENDING. And UT has stated that it has a higher yield rate for those accepted top10% than the nontop10% applicants. So if 95% accepted this year were actually from top 10%, history would have us estimate that next years freshman class will be 95%+ automatically admitted top 10%ers - up from the 81 and 86% of the past 2 years</p>
<p>UT won't release official figures on admitted, enrolled, etc. for the 2009-10 class until fall. (The best source on 2008-09 stats for comparison is the report henryj223 linked.)</p>
<p>Until then, anything you hear is hearsay.</p>
<p>We can reasonably deduce this year's top 10% admits are higher than ever because of the number of colleges already closed to admission, the number of top 10%ers being capped, fact the Summer Freshman program was canceled with top 10% being a cited reason, etc.</p>