Controversial Texas Top 10% Rule

qwerty999
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:20:29 +0000

Scenario (not me):


A student can graduate from a very competitive public high school (high school A) in a wealthy neighborhood. He is in the top 15%.
The same student moves to a mediocre, minority-majority high school (high school B) in South Texas. He graduates as valedictorian.
The student attends UT the following fall. The student’s friend who graduated in the top 12% at high school A gets rejected at UT and gets deferred to another UT campus.


This is happening right now. Why do students have to be “punished” for their achievements and academic motivations? I say 1) the State overturn the rule completely, 2) make the top 10% rule more fair: only allow students graduating in the top 5% at under-performing schools and raise the bar for motivated students at reputable schools to 15%. Just a suggestion. No offense, but its so obvious the state is favoring Hispanics. Its ridiculous.

By the way, I am in the top 10% at a competitive public school. I don’t plan on attending UT anyways unless its Plan II.

Sorry but many underachievers are dumbing down the academics and reputation of UT.