House Bill 212

foxshox
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:12:21 +0000

Even though I will most likely make it in as a non-top-10%er, I will, without a doubt, email my congressman about this. I saw way to many of my friends who graduated last year get capped, who were equally as smart as me, with a full class load. Then I talk to people from other schools who have absolute idiots in top 10% who get into UT and drop out because they can’t handle it.

All that is happening at UT as a result of the top 10% rule is a lowering of their standards dramatically when looking at the school from afar. UTD, a school with much fewer top 10% people, is considered a “worse” school, however, the student population is composed of many people who couldn’t make it in the top 10% but are of high caliber and thus giving UTD a better test score avg. Which means that all those other second-tier schools have had a boost in terms of the capability of their student population, while the most sought after schools actually appear to have lower standards.