<p>I would think their objective would not necessarily be to reduce the Texas applications but to drasticially improve the number and quality of OOS applications. Their number of local applications and admits is far too overweighted for their selectivity index to be meaningful in comparison to other most selectives.</p>
<p>Part of being prestigious is being demographically, including geographically, diverse. Having a small student body with more than 50% of that student body from one place doesn’t get the job done. If they adopt the 35/65 split simba mentions and increase the size of the student body (also on the new prez’s wish list), they can possibly achieve a balance that doesn’t reduce the actual number of Texan spots, but does increase diversity by bringing in significantly more OOS students. But…this ideal is gonna involve serious outreach and marketing.</p>