Is it true that 90 percent of every UT should be filled with texas residents, and 75 percent of that 90 percent has to be the top 10% of the school? That seems really hard. I’m from a competitive school in California and a 3.79 UW GPA puts me at the 75th percentile. Going to an equally competitive school in Texas would put me in some trouble. So how do you Texans deal with it?
I think 75% of students at UT Austin are by auto-admission and the cut off this year is 8% not 10%.
yeah that’s really hard… especially if the school is competitive and has a high number of high performing students. so do most students in texas resort to community college or out of state schools if they cant afford private schools?
i’m not sure about the other numbers, but I remember texas having an auto-admit system for those in the top 10% of their class for public school. UT Austin is the exception since i think they accept people starting at 1% and then go down to 10%, which usually leaves them only accepting the top 7% or so usually. However, that’s not to say that the only people who go to public schools in texas are in the top 10%, remember, that’s only for the auto-admit, plenty of people in texas go to public schools without being in the top 10%.
Kids who really want to go to UT and aren’t in the top x% can attend one of the branch schools and then transfer to the main campus after a year. To do so, they must take certain courses and maintain a certain GPA. There is also a CC option in which the student attends CC in Austin, lives on the UT campus, but doesn’t become a full fledged UT student until the second year.
So it is tough but not impossible.
@Lizardly if they do choose to go to a UT campus do they HAVE to to to a CC in Austin? They can’t go to a cc closer to home? Also isn’t one of of the major perks of CC to live at home and save money? Doesn’t forcing cc students to live on a UT campus defeat this purpose?
@iamjack you could still go to a CC close to home, but wouldn’t be put in UT’s program. Why would they care to give you priority for transferring in if you don’t go to their college? It’s their program.
An example would be that in Delaware where I live, there’s a less financially straining option to go to DelTech for 2 years and switch to UD to get a Bachelors, but it’s a specific program (SEED) and you wouldn’t be in that program if say DelState was closer to you. SEED also helps if your credentials aren’t good enough to get into UD, which is what I think UT is going after instead of prioritizing affordability. I’m not from that area so my post could be completely, wrong, but I hope this helps to explain from a different perspective
UT has the CAP program it offers to some of rejected applicants (1 year at branch campus then auto tranafer to UT). There’s other schools in Texas besides UT. You have Texas Tech, A&M, Houston, UNT, UT branches, A&M Branches, etc.
@fireonmytoast Texas’ community college system is quite different than California’s … and I think California’s is much more financially convenient for the most of us (not being biased). You can choose any of ~200 community colleges and then have a good chance of transferring into a UC, without paying the jacked up price of boarding and rooming of a UC and living away from home.
@iamjack you can attend any of the CC’s in Texas and transfer to UT. Why are you asking about UT’s admissions if you are a student at UC Davis (just curiosity)
@Machovich just out of curiosity. I saw someone post something about 90 percent of UT students HAVE to be from texas by law and I thought that was surprising.
Does anyone know what percentage of seats of UC’s are required to go to in-state students?
So to clarify, this is all a mental exercise for you?
@“Erin’s Dad” No, I have a big test on it tomorrow!