<p>ok so if im in the top 8 percent of my class, am i guaranteed 100 percent admission into UT? like is there any chance i might be rejected? thanks</p>
<p>Never heard of it not happening. But I’m sure if you strapped a bomb to yourself and attacked UT, they might reconsider.</p>
<p>If you are an instate student.</p>
<p>You also have to have taken certain required hs classes</p>
<p>lol <3 supaumar</p>
<p>The 8% is a guesstimate only. If you want to be certain of automatic admission try for the top 7%. Also, you’ll need to have at least a SAT of 1500/2400 and meet benchmarks on the ACT. And of course be a Texas high school graduate on at least the recommended track. You can read the bill below.</p>
<p>[81(R)</a> SB 175 - Enrolled version - Bill Text](<a href=“http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/html/SB00175F.htm]81(R)”>81(R) SB 175 - Enrolled version - Bill Text)</p>
<p>From what I understand, the ACT/SAT requirements are only for those students not graduating on the “recommended” track in high school. </p>
<p>Also, the top 8%, for 2011 grads anyway, is pretty firm according to the latest UT ex-students magazine, The Alcalde.</p>
<p>yes if you are in the TOP %8 you will automatically get in, it is law
but you should try to get top 7% 2 be safe but you will get in</p>
<p>Actually, the law (SB 175) states UT can admit up to 75% of it’s freshman class from the top ranked students. They are to start at the top percent and work down until reaching 75%. Nowhere does it address the Top 8%. The 8% is just a close approximation from us, UT, the media, and the general public. Who’s to say UT won’t decide to decrease the class size or there’s even more applicants or a dozen other scenarios that might limit the % even more. To be safe, strive for the Top 7%.</p>
<p>The law is three fold - rank, SAT/ACT scores, and recommended track. There are provisions for homeschool and schools that don’t rank. </p>
<p>Read the link already posted. It’s very simple language.</p>
<p>yea @nunya is right, so just make sure you apply early and you will beat that 25% cutoff</p>
<p>so as long as you are right at Top 8% or above and apply early(october or earlier possibly early november) you are safe</p>
<p>but then again i know people in the top 10% that applied end of november and still got in, so either way you have a good shot,</p>
<p>so since the rule is top 8, probably around 60-70%(as to 75% right now) of incoming freshman will be under that rule.</p>
<p>Pierre, the law specifically states 75%. Please stop replying to every post when you don’t know what you’re talking about.</p>
<p>Actually, UT has said that for the Fall of 2011 and the Spring of 2012, it will automatically admit the top 8%. After that, it is to be determined what the percentile cut off will be.</p>
<p>[Automatic</a> Admission | Freshmen | Be a Longhorn](<a href=“http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/freshmen/after-you-apply/automatic-admission/index.html]Automatic”>http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/freshmen/after-you-apply/automatic-admission/index.html)</p>
<p>@maine around 75% of incoming freshman got in through the top 10 rule im just saying that it will likely be less than 75% next year since 2% of kids wont be able to automatically get in, so their will be a 5%-10% decrease of automatic admits</p>
<p>I just read through part of the law, note it is early morning so I may have missed something, but I didn’t see anything that alluded to rolling admission or any advantage given to early applications. Did I miss something? What it looks like to me, is that starting with the HS class graduating in 2011 admission can be automatically granted to kids in whatever is the highest percentile that falls within the cut off top 75% of admissions. So if the cutoff is somewhere in the 7th percentile, then all students in the 7th percentile will be admitted but none in the 8th. The law says in section 3a:</p>
<p>"the university shall offer admission to those<br>
applicants by percentile rank according to high school graduating<br>
class standing based on grade point average, beginning with the top<br>
percentile rank, until the applicants qualified under Subsection<br>
(a) have been offered admission in the number estimated in good<br>
faith by the university as sufficient to fill 75 percent of the<br>
university’s enrollment capacity designated for first-time<br>
resident undergraduate students, except that the university must<br>
offer admission to all applicants with the same percentile rank. </p>
<p>I think the law also indicates that UT will estimate the cutoff at the start of the HS Junior year which is what the Be A Longhorn link is doing when it says that for admissions in 2011 the cut off will be in the top 8%, and for 2012 it will be determined in the fall of 2010.</p>
<p>I am also trying to figure out when the student has to be in that percentile. In section 1a it says, “…of the student’s high school graduating class in one of the two<br>
school years preceding the academic year for which the applicant is<br>
applying for admission…” But section 3a (above) says the rank is according to the graduating class standing. And the Be a Longhorn page says: </p>
<p>“Each fall by September 15 the university will notify Texas school officials of the class rank that current high school juniors need to attain by the end of their junior year in order to be automatically admitted two years out.” </p>
<p>Does this mean that a student graduating at the end of the spring semester of 12th grade needs to have been in the qualifying percentile anytime in their Junior or Senior year or anytime in their senior year or at the end of their junior year? Does anyone know which semester ranking is the one that counts towards the percentile that will qualify them for admission?</p>
<p>pierrechn–Just stop it. Your assertions are incorrect regarding this topic. Please read nunya’s link if you wish to truly understand the change in UT admission procedures going forward. But, since it doesn’t affect you, I can’t see why you would bother.</p>
<p>Your incessant, uninformed posting is trollish. You are not helping anyone on this thread or on others where posters are genuinely seeking informed advice. </p>
<p>From what I can gather from your posts, you have not been admitted to UT, nor is it likely you will ever attend UT. So, knock it off.</p>
<p>spectrum - since the admissions application deadline has been moved to December 1st, I am pretty sure that the end of the junior year ranking is the only one that will affect automatic admission for the fall semester.</p>
<p>@ QueenofEverything - I agree that end of junior year is the ranking that matters. The wording from both UT and the TX Code agree on this:</p>
<p>From the UT Automatic Admission page, above:
“Each fall by September 15 the university will notify Texas school officials of the class rank that current high school juniors need to attain by the end of their junior year in order to be automatically admitted two years out.”</p>
<p>Texas Administrative Code Rule 5.5
" (4) The student submitted an official high school transcript or diploma not later than the end of the student’s junior year of high school. The transcript or diploma must indicate that the student satisfied the requirements outlined under paragraph (2)(A) or (B) of this section."</p>
<p>Thanks Queen and Vail, I hope my soph can hang in there for another year!</p>
<p>hopefully your soph can !!!</p>