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Originally Posted by momof4girls
UT does not limit their admission to only to top 10%. The top 10% has automatic admission, but that alone does not meet the freshman class quota. If you look at the statistics for Fall 2008, Ms. Fisher fell right in line statistically with the freshman class that year. She was not mediocre.
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Yes, I know that UT does not limit their admission to the top 10%; this isn't even a topic of debate and has been posted widely in most discussions on this lawsuit.
I was questioning how, if they limit their admits to the Top 10% (or, really the top 7% these days), how would they admit legacies and athletes, two groups who typically DO NOT fall in line statistically with the rest of their classmates? This is a question that's been posed to other schools as well--both public and private.
You didn't answer that question, but decided instead to post what we've all been discussing upthread, and what was pretty much common knowledge. Thanks!
Yes, she was mediocre. Maybe not for an "average" school, but UT isn't an "average" school anymore. Since she wasn't in the top 10% of her class, she was in the general admissions pool with out-of-staters (who may have scored better and had better grades), athletes, legacies, and others who weren't in the top 10% of a high school class in the state of Texas.
She thought she was entitled to get into her state's flagship, and she didn't because her scores didn't measure up. Too bad, so sad.
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