<p>Not good news for non top 10%.
I just saw this on the website Summer</a> Freshman | Freshmen | Be a Longhorn
this morning:</p>
<p>2009 Updates
Summer Freshman Class (SFC) admission will not be available during the summer of 2009. The size of the 2009 2010 freshman applicant pool, the numbers of top 10% applicants, and the universitys enrollment capacity contributed to this decision by the university. </p>
<p>It was really our only hope. Very disappointing.</p>
<p>WTEFF!!! </p>
<p>No chance for UT now. :'(</p>
<p>This is a huge change in admission policy. Very interesting. Thanks for posting this news flash, fatxca. I think this is very recent news, perhaps posted late March 6?</p>
<p>What would explain this? I wonder… Perhaps they had to admit so many top 10% kids that based on their yield estimates the class would be too large if they also admitted a Summer Freshman Class? I’m sure we’ll soon learn more about this.</p>
<p>(Who will live in Kinsolving and Duren this summer, I wonder? Last summer, those two dorms were loaded with Summer Freshman Class kids.)</p>
<p>I remember when I took a summer session and lived in Kinsolving… the RA and I were about the only two people on our floor that weren’t part of the SFC.</p>
<p>I’m not really sure why they would do this… the Summer Freshman Class is only offered to about what 300 or so Texas residents? That can’t make that much of a difference in making the class size too large. But if it has anything to do with the top 10% rule, then it is just another example of why it has to go.</p>
<p>According to an admissions officer, last yr the summer freshmen enrollment was offered to 1500 kids. I’m real surprised at this change in policy.</p>
<p>1500? That’s quite a bit more than I thought… but regardless, I don’t think they should have canceled the program entirely for this year.</p>
<p>Pred, same thing (summer Kinsolving) my daughter experienced - last summer she took a class during the five-week second summer session and lived in Kinsolving - LOTS of summer freshman class people living there - almost no one else.</p>
<p>Don’t give up hope completely yet. I’ve heard of some people with top 25% ranks and decent SATs getting in this year…</p>
<p>Summer housing will be in San Jacinto this summer. Students who are admitted for fall and want to go to summer school may live on campus. Depending on the number of students who want to live on campus, we may open Brackenridge, Roberts or Prather along with San Jacinto. Kinsolving and Duren will be closed for the summer.</p>
<p>I wonder if the decision has anything to do with budget. Our local community college is considering not having a summer session to save money. Not sure how that would save money, but they are considering it.</p>
<p>Or maybe President Powers is using this as a way to increase pressure on the legislature to revisit the top 10% law.
This article was in The Statesman on March 5th [UT</a> president warns of consequences to automatic-admission law](<a href=“http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/03/05//0305topten.html]UT”>http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/03/05//0305topten.html)</p>
<p>Make it top 7%, problem solved IMO.</p>
<p>“Eighty-one percent of UT’s freshmen from Texas enrolled under the law this academic year, and Powers (UT’s President) said he expected that figure to rise to 86 percent for the entering class this fall.”
-Austin American Statesman</p>
<p>14% of the Texas enrolled freshmen are not in the top 10%…still a decent chance if you have good qualifications and are not in the top 10%</p>
<p>Yes, but there is the football team…</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, we love football. Just being realistic.</p>
<p>the number of entering freshman football players will not significantly change the % of non top 10% freshman…</p>
<p>Who do you think would have a better chance? Top 15% with a 1600ish SAT or a 25% with a 2000</p>
<p>Seems like a pretty even shot…</p>
<p>masri - didn’t really mean just football players. I was really refering to the many students that the university needs to round out the class that aren’t necessarily in the top 10%. Athletes, musicians, artists, etc.</p>
<p>I hope UT - Probably pretty even shot between the two. EC’s could make the difference there.</p>
<p>Top 25 with a 2000 IMO is a better shot because it shows that the student is smart enough to handle college coursework but just didn’t work hard during HS.</p>
<p>In all honesty, Bill Powers is being riddiculous by claiming the top ten law is going to make us not have a football team. He is a great guy, but that argument is exactly what people see as wrong with this great state.</p>
<p>Honestly I think the only change the law needs is that a provision for a guaranteed number of spots for kids who attend Texas schools that don’t rank should be added. But plain and simple: if you go to a Texas school and aren’t in the top ten percent of your graduating class, you don’t have much of a leg to stand on if you don’t get in. You could have done better against your peers, who are really the only people UT can fairly compare your grades to.</p>