Texas poised to keep top 10 percent rule, with UT exception (8%)
Source: dallasnews.com Posted By: post_123 5424 days ago
The House is poised to limit automatic admission to the University of Texas at Austin to the top 8 percent of graduating high school seniors but keep the current top 10 percent rule the same for all other public campuses.
That route, approved Thursday as House members debated how to structure automatic admissions to state universities, is dramatically different from what the Senate has approved, a cap that would allow a maximum of 60 percent of a freshman class to come from the top 10 percent....