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Originally Posted by srmom
To answer a few questions posed above (sorry, it's long but it might clear up a few things from above):
UT offers admission to approx 11,500 students, expecting a yield (people who actually matriculate) of 7,200 (based on statistics and historical yields). UT has over 50,000 students, but they try to limit the freshman classes to 7,200 (so if you project a 4 year graduation rate, there would be 28,800 undergraduate students, but of course many take 5 to 6 years to graduate, and you have to add in graduate students, so that's how they get to the over 50,000).
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Is that how much they usually admit, or is that the number they have now because of the high number of top 10%. If it's just a number they use (regardless of the top 10%) I find that extremely low, especially considering that UTEP admits over 15,000 students a year.
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Originally Posted by srmom
Each school district in texas has their own grading system: some add points for AP/IB/honors classes, some don't, so it would benefit you (strictly from a rank standpoint) to never take and honors or AP class if your school doesn't "weight" AP classes; some limit the amount of AP bonus points you can get (our does this, you only can count as bonus 4 AP classes each semester), some don't, so it would benefit you to take all AP classes and no fine arts/athletics/music/theatre/etc.
Some are on 4.0 scales, some (like ours) are on a 6.0 scale - it's crazy all the variations!
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I never knew there was such variation among school districts. I thought that all school districts in Texas run fairly similar....I guess not! lol
Yeah my school district is fairly liberal with the grades. There is no limitation to how many AP/IB (although my school doesn't offer the IB program...only one school in EP does) points you can get. So it really is to your detriment if you don't take advantage of all the pre-AP & AP classes. I thought that it would be better to get a high grade in a "regular" class than a mediocre grade in an AP class, but I was wrong and my ranking reflected that.
I think TEA should try and make all the school districts run similarly. It might take a while for students to adjust, but it might make the whole Top 10% rule a little bit more even among all students instead of having so much variation.