<p>Does UT fill up the total amount of admissions with 75% of automatic admissions or does that exclude out of state and international students? </p>
<p>I guess what I'm saying is, when they say 75% are they talking about just Texas admits? 75% automatic and 25% non-automatic Texas residents? Then international and out of state are handled separately?</p>
<p>I was wondering this because in 2009 71% of all of the students at UT were automatically admitted, so admitting 75% automatically would be making UT even more difficult for non automatic admits, and I thought the whole point of the law was to make it easier for non automatic admits...</p>
<p>Wondering the same thing! Boy, I wish I was in the automatic acceptance range.</p>
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<p>Yeah I know me too I’m 9.2% so it is very frustrating for me. I don’t know if this question will be answered though. I’ve already researched a lot and couldn’t find anything</p>
<p>Let me see if I can simplify things. </p>
<p>First, please realize that MANY, MANY more are admitted than elect to attend. So, that throws the numbers off. Students (attending)at UT can be very different than the admissions statistics. </p>
<p>The law is meant to hold spots open for Texas residents, specifically the top graduates of their HS classes. Each year, the top % (class rank cutoff) is set so that at least 75%of the admissions are to this targeted group. Its not an exact science. UT can admit whoever they want after the auto admissions are done.</p>
<p>Best wishes.</p>
<p>^ … except that UT “may not offer admission to first-time undergraduate students who are not residents of this state for that academic year in excess of the number required to fill 10 percent of the institution’s enrollment capacity designated for first-time undergraduate students for that academic year.” (excerpt from the Top Ten Percent statute)</p>
<p>Thus, the target enrollment groups are, roughly:</p>
<p>75% auto admits
15% other Texas high school applicants (those ranked higher than auto admit cutoff + all unranked)
10% OOS and int’l</p>
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<p>Ok so they automatically admit 75% of the intended total but those 75% aren’t necessarily going to UT so it ends up being less. Then the rest of the 90% are applicants admitted holistically(OOS and international being the other 10%)</p>
<p>Right?</p>
<p>longhorn12, you had this right all along…my bad for confusing things.</p>
<p>They admit however many they estimate, based on experience, is necessary to produce target enrollment percentages per statutory group. See the wording they use here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/freshmen/after-you-apply/automatic-admission[/url]”>http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/freshmen/after-you-apply/automatic-admission</a></p>
<p>So, under the “new” law effective this 2012 cycle, auto-admits should fill up to 75% of all <em>Texas seats</em> in the freshman class, which means my presentation above is not mathematically correct (because I applied the 75% to the whole class). You actually reached the correct figures in another post. Great work!</p>
<p>The proper breakdown of the class of 2012 should be:</p>
<p>10% maximum non-Texas residents
90%+ Texas residents, of which 75% are auto-admits and 25% holistic review admits</p>
<p>Which produces these whole class percentages:</p>
<p>10% maximum non-Texas residents
67.5% Texas auto-admits
22.5% Texas holistic review admits</p>
<p>Right?!</p>
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<p>Haha yes I think that’s right. Because I am the biggest freak about whether or not I’m going to get in, I was checking out the actual law and the only way I think those percentages won’t be correct is if they don’t estimate the 75% automatically admitted correctly. Its really good news though for people that are Texan and not in the top 9% because they used to make up only 10% of total admissions. Bad news for OOS and international because they were about 20% in the past.</p>
<p>longhorn12, the only thing you are wrong about is OOS/int’l making up more than 10% in the past. The statute says “non-residents” can compose a maximum of 10% of the freshman class. I’ve seen the yield at 9% and my memory thinks it could have been 11% once, but bottom line, they’ve never been 20%.</p>
<p>Texas Education Code, Chapter 51, Section 51.803(j)<br>
A general academic teaching institution that elects to offer admission under Subsection (a-1 [the top 10% rule]) for an academic year may not offer admission to first-time undergraduate students who are not residents of this state for that academic year in excess of the number required to fill 10 percent of the institution’s enrollment capacity designated for first-time undergraduate students for that academic year.</p>
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<p>The final yield percentages for auto-admits and holistic review admits are unlikely to be exactly 67.5 and 22.5. It’s quite a guessing game as to how many apply and then how many accept offers. </p>
<p>But you are right, the numbers for holistic review admits will shoot up significantly compared to past years! </p>
<p>Good luck. Hook 'em!</p>