Top Ten Percent Rule
More on GPA over SAT
Ta-Nehisi Coates – Authors – The Atlantic That point on focusing on the GPA over high SATs is interesting. More evidence for the top ten percent rule at UT Austin. What does it say about the SAT if people with higher gpas from “less challenging” schools are more likely to graduate than those with higher [...]
Doing the math
As a homeschooler, I know that money isn’t everything in education but it as Jaime Castillo points out, it certainly helps. MySA.com: Columnists The 10-campus UC system, which is considered by some as the nation’s best collection of public research institutions, has five medical centers, three national laboratories, and Berkley and UCLA. The UT System [...]
It had to come from an educrat
With the Top 10 % Rule, obviously more people are paying attention to how schools rank the students. MySA.com: KENS 5: Education Catherine takes mostly AP courses, and under the district’s system those courses earn more points than regular classes. But for three years of soccer, she earned no points at all. North East adopted [...]
What do you expect, look at the example
UT Austin President Bill Power’s letter to alumni: Dear Friends, Many of you have told me that you are concerned about the Top 10% Law and its effect on admissions at UT Austin. We’re concluding the admissions cycle here on the 40 Acres, and I’d like to share some figures with you. We received 29,626 [...]
Maybe we need more “Tier 1″ universities…
Top 10 rule limits UT-Austin, says school president | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle On Wednesday and in testimony before a House panel a day earlier, Powers said the university could attract a more diverse student body if it was not forced by the state, under a decade-old law, to accept every student with a high [...]
Just because they go to a competitive doesn’t mean they have been taught to think
Comment from a high schooler on one of my top 10% posts. Public policy in Texas–I’ve got mine « Texas Ed: Comments on Education from Texas # the top 10% rule is may very well promote diversity at the tier schools but at what cost? A kid taking advanced classes in a harder school [...]
Because a real solution would require money
Tricky Times for the Top 10 Percent Program Leicht says Texas has widened access to its elite flagship schools so much that UT-Austin has been overwhelmed. “The Texas problem is a big population, two flagship campuses, and far too few slots,” he says. “What the university system needs to do is figure out ways to [...]
This passes for leadership in Texas
Unbelievable. MySA.com: State Government Higher education cuts included a $6 million veto for a San Antonio Life Sciences Institute. The University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Texas Health Science Center had jointly asked for it, saying it would stimulate growth of the city’s biomedical and biotechnology industries and spur commercialization of [...]
No change to the top ten percent rule
Excellent! MySA.com: Metro | State 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, [...]
The best money can buy
Agreement reached on top 10 percent law | Postcards from the Lege House and Senate negotiators have reached agreement on changes to a 10-year-old college-admission law. Under Senate Bill 101, which still needs approval today from the full House and Senate, the University of Texas would no longer be required to accept all applicants who [...]