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Old 03-09-2009, 03:29 PM
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Yes, I can compare the Florida method with the Texas methods, so I will continue to do so. Florida also guarantees admission to those who are in the top of their classes. The difference between Florida and Texas is that the demand is spread out among the 11 campuses of the State University System; it looks like most students in Texas pick UT as their first choice.

It might simply come down to the fact that UF and UT-Austin may end up like UVa and Berkeley in that admission isn't guaranteed to everyone from that state who applies.
Exactly.

I'm sorry, but I don't see any problem with the Top 10% rule. So some kids gets good grades and get left off their school's top 10%, so what? Not everyone can be in the Top 10%.

The people that should be blamed for how UT enrollment is today are the people in charge of budgeting the money to the schools. If the other UT schools could get enough funding, then maybe they might be a little bit more desirable to students. But until that happens, UT is going to be overcrowded.

Now lawmakers wanna lower the number of top 10% students---instead of it making up about 85% of UT's enrollemnt, then wanna make it something like 50% (or 15% can't really recall the number). Once they do that, there are gonna be people complaining that their kid can't get in.
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Old 03-09-2009, 04:41 PM
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I'm sorry, but I don't see any problem with the Top 10% rule. So some kids gets good grades and get left off their school's top 10%, so what? Not everyone can be in the Top 10%.

You're correct, not everyone CAN be in the Top 10%....but just because they are does not mean that they should be guaranteed admission. When a student in Texas attends a high school so competitive that a 4.0 isn't even in the top 25% and is denied admission over a student with a 3.0 from a less competitive school and is in the top 10% who is admitted, there is a problem.

The President of UT recently released this report on the impact of the Top 10% Law on the university. Legislators voted to keep this law to assist high school students living in rural areas attending less competitive schools gain admission to Texas's flagship universities. According to this report, UT has seen no significant change in admissions of these "rural" students. If that's the case, then Texas legislators have no valid reason to retain this law.
http://www.utexas.edu/president/spee...dInterest=1292
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