The current threshold is 6%. The change comes after the university received a record-breaking 73,000 undergraduate applications for this fall.
Top 10% Rule
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Higher Education
UT-Austin has no plans to drop affirmative action policy, despite new Trump administration guidelines
Though the Trump administration rescinded Obama-era guidelines encouraging colleges to factor race into admissions, it doesn’t force campuses to change their policies.
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Higher Education
UT-Austin changes automatic admissions threshold from 7 to 6 percent
Texas students who graduate in the top 6 percent of their high school class will earn automatic admission to the University of Texas at Austin in 2019. Currently, the threshold is 7 percent.
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Criminal Justice
Man behind Fisher affirmative action case files new lawsuit against UT-Austin
After years of challenging the University of Texas at Austin’s use of affirmative action in federal court, Edward Blum will now try to end the practice in state court.
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Higher Education
When UT denied this valedictorian, she got it to change admissions rules
Madison Mau is valedictorian of her tiny high school’s senior class, but the University of Texas denied her anyway. Unwilling to accept that result, she lobbied the school to change its admissions policy.
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Higher Education
Author of effort to peel back Top 10 Percent Rule says his bill is dead
State Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, says he doesn’t have enough votes to repeal or peel back the Top 10 Percent Rule for college admissions.
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Higher Education
Has the Top 10 Percent Rule impacted diversity at UT-Austin? It’s complicated.
It’s hard to know exactly how the Top 10 Percent Rule has impacted diversity at UT-Austin, but data suggests it does boost the school’s Hispanic population right now.
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Higher Education
Texas senators mull eliminating Top 10 Percent Rule
The Senate Higher Education Committee on Wednesday reviewed the state’s automatic college admissions rule, which is popular among minorities but loathed among many suburban students and parents.
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Public Education
East Dallas High School Tries to Plant, Nurture College Dreams
On the first day of a new school year, Bryan Adams High School teacher Krystal Morrow greeted the next crop of students she will try to help overcome the financial and confidence hurdles that keep many of the school’s students from attending college.
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The Price of Admission
Reveal Radio: Nearly Neighbors, Worlds Apart
On this episode of Reveal, we explain how an attempt to boost diversity in Texas colleges could, paradoxically, end affirmative action. This is part of our Price of Admission series.