Wow.
http://www.kvue.com/news/education/ut-automatic-admission-rate-changes/475222135
2 million more kids in Texas public schools since I graduated HS! Lots more competition for spots even though tuition keeps rising higher.
I wonder when it will reach 5 percent.
The only way for things to change is if Texas invests money into creating way more places at UT as well as other Universities and/or create a new university with a few top programs to free up spaces elsewhere in a domino effect. The state’s population has grown so much in the past decade that I don’t see how it can avoid that.
This policy, whatever the threshold, seems to me to put enormous pressure on high school teachers. I just imagine aggressive parental and student pressure to change grades, especially for whichever students make the highest B’s in a class. The B could really make a huge difference in college application outcomes. That can be true at any school but very directly under this Top Class Rank model.
If that means opening more spots for regular applicants, it is a good thing.
It’s not opening mode spots to students outside the top 6%.
I think high school rank is stupid and should be abolished, but that is because I am a salty parent lol.
My daughter’s school rank is Weighted only and all students don’t get the same options for DC/AP it all depends on what the counselor lets you take your freshman year. Some kids get a extra class or two and that forever pushes their weighted gpa higher.
Our 2 NMSF and NMF finalist were (6th, 21st, and 9th out of 221) at our school (clearly smarter), but not ranked as high because of stupid weighted ranking and kids played the system taking DC fluff credits parents pushing or taking classes over the summer.
It is a big game these days and it shouldn’t be.
The UT Austin automatic admission rank threshold is intended to keep the automatic admission at around 75% of the frosh class, allowing around 25% of the class for admission review using additional factors (test scores, extracurriculars, essays, etc.).
Note that automatic admission applicants are not automatically admitted to their intended majors, since some majors (e.g. engineering majors and CS) have too few spaces for all of the automatic admission applicants who are interested in them.
@carolinamom2boys Thanks! Let’s hope Clemson shows her some love…Since it doesn’t look like her home state flagship will be /
@labegg Fingers crossed.
@ucbalumnus don’t forget that for the remaining 25% pool they are also looking for full pay oos/ intl as well.