<p>what exactly is the top 10% rule and who does it apply to mostly??? =)</p>
<p>In Texas, if you graduate in the top 10% of your class (no matter how big or small your graduating class is), you have automatic acceptance to any public Texas university (UT, A&M, Tech, UTSA… etc.). It only applies to in-state students, if that’s what you’re asking. </p>
<p>The universities, especially UT, are pushing to get rid of the rule, or at least put a cap on it, because over 2/3 of the UT incoming freshman class was made up of top 10%-ers, which leaves little room for the more well-rounded students who were right outside of the top 10%, and students from more rural areas may not be ready to handle the courseload at the major universities.</p>
<p>Just to be clear, the law does not apply to OOS students.</p>
<p>Also, the percentage was projected to be around 86% for this fall’s class, only 2/3rds. </p>
<p>The law was recently changed. It is the same other than for UT-Austin the number of students with automatic acceptance under the law is capped at 75% of incoming freshman from TX, starting for the fall of 2011. OOS students will be capped at 10% and admission for them does not deal with top ten percent. </p>
<p>I think the TTP law is horrible. I had hoped for more change.</p>
<p>I know some of the people in the top ten percent at my school are NOT ready for college at UT, and yet, there they’ll be, plopped in the middle of a huge university…</p>
<p>Heck, I’m not even sure I’m ready for it, and I’m in the top two percent.</p>
<p>I think that in essence, it’s a good idea, but there are simply too many students and not enough good university choices. Maybe it should be like… Top five percent. Or the schools should take all of the top kids and then choose the best and have those make up fifty percent of admission or something. It’s a difficult situation, I guess.</p>
<p>Top ten percent of all graduating students from Texas high schools have automatic admission to any of Texas public universities.</p>
<p>Has this rule resulted in families from higher-achieving school districts relocating to lower-achieving schools in order to get their kids into less-competitive situations? If so, I can envision both potential pros and cons to the inadvertently-resulting social engineering. Has that been a significant phenomenon and if so, what has been its impact?</p>
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<p>I wouldn’t be surprise if this became a factor, or more so a even better factor is the lower respected high school became more fair or say well understood/ equal to many other universities with help by local/ state wide residents so all students being admitted ( with the law of top 10 percent) are at equal chances. Then again, those that still attend some of Texas most rigious high schools still have a good chance of admission, or may not be affected by much since they plan to attend out of state.</p>
<p>Screw Texas schools.</p>
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<p>That has not happened at all. Parents aren’t going to move their kids from huge, posh suburbs like Southlake, Plano, or Frisco to live in the bad parts of Dallas proper. It’s just resulted in these students completely writing off UT and A&M. The best kids apply at other state’s flagships and private schools. If anything, the affirmative action rule has helped SMU and TCU out a ton. </p>
<p>I know I did, for two reasons: I was in the top 11% of my extremely competitive school and got into Dartmouth (although I was waitlisted and got zero scholarships) so I’m not stupid, but I was not about to let myself get rejected by UT of all schools because I might not have been the best out of the 5% that they could let in that were in-state and not top 10%. </p>
<p>The second huge reason is that I did not want to go to school with all of the people who got in simply because of affirmative action, whether they be from some ghetto school in San Antonio, or from a small remote rural town up in the Panhandle.</p>