Lowest GPA Accepted into UT?

Yalie_2011
Sat, 11 Feb 2017 16:06:05 +0000

Theoratically, it is possible as I was talking to a UT graduate last night and according to him, significant number of students with low GPA , low SAT and no course rigor get auto admitted because they rank high in their non competitive high schools from rural areas or poor urban/suburban schools. On the other hand solid students with higher GPA and SAT get rejected because they come from highly competitive affluent schools where kids in 11-25% are way more qualified academically than top 5% of other schools.

Texas has a diffrent admission system. UT has to invest a lot of resources into supporting these kids or they end up ruining UT’s graduation rates. This is one of the reasons UT doesn’t give much merit money as those resources are supporting financially or academically disadvantaged auto admits.