No change to the top ten percent rule
May 28th, 2007
Excellent!
AUSTIN — In a surprise move, the Texas House shot down a bill Sunday night that would have limited automatic admissions at the University of Texas at Austin for students graduating in the top 10 percent of their class.
A cheer went up in the chamber with the final vote, 75-64, against adopting a compromise bill that would have let public universities cap admissions of high-ranking students at 50 percent.
Now maybe people can start thinking about what Texas can do to improve the quality of all it’s universities.
As for the brain drain argument, drain away. Maybe all of these people who leave the state will choose to live outside of Texas. Then as more graduates of Texas’ top universities look more like Texas as a whole, these graduates will lead the way to improve higher education opportunities for everyone, not just the children of wealthy parents in north Dallas and the Houston suburbs.
See also:
- If you can’t join them, sue them (April 8th, 2008)
- Randolph-Macon College (January 26th, 2008)
- College Admissions Selectivity Equals Quality? (January 25th, 2008)
- Who knew that privilege was such a disadvantage? (January 3rd, 2008)
- The College Search: Colby-Sawyer College (November 26th, 2007)
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