Wouldn’t her top 20% rank and 1200 SAT give her automatic admission to a large number of Texas public universities?
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/texas-colleges/1677484-texas-public-universities-requirements-for-guaranteed-admission-2015-p1.html is an older list of automatic admission criteria at Texas public universities; check the school web sites for changes (and adjustments for the new SAT versus the old SAT used in this list).