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Originally Posted by Munchkin03
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Thank you! I was just about to call BS on srmom claiming that the black & Hispanic enrollment hadn't increased since '97.
I'm just going to say that I am
NOT referring to anyone here on GC, because I haven't seen these type of comments, but I (and many of my friends) have been hearing these things....so here I go.
I am soooo sorry that you don't think the Top 10% rule is inadequate for your situation. But i'm soo tired of hearing, "well if the students in your city can't pull the grades to compete with students in Austin/Dallas/Houston, then too bad, you have UTEP." UTEP is a good school, a great school but this isn't the fucking '60s. You keep referring to us going to UTEP, because you wanna keep us "
stupid Mexicans" out of UT. I'm sorry that your son/daughter couldn't get into UT w/ the Top 10% and that he had some outrageous 10.0/4.0 scale. But to say that, "his/her spot probably got taken by some stupid kid in El Paso" doesn't make you look too bright. Me, along with the other El Paso students, deserve to have a good education. We should be given the option of being accepted at any state school and not be relegated to UTEP just because it's here.
Don't blame the Top 10% school, just say what you really feel. You want UT to be white-washed, and want all the minorities at the smaller state schools. God forbid that your son/daughter couldn't get into UT and had to go to UTEP.
/end rant
I know that srmom and the others probably don't feel this way, but everytime I see the whole "my child has a 4.0 and still can't get in the top 10%" I remember these conversations.