Lowest GPA Accepted into UT?

MYOS1634
Sat, 11 Feb 2017 23:28:21 +0000

Actually NO ONE gets into UT with a low GPA. Students may have low test scores but the only factor for admission if you’re instate is to be top 8%. Period.
In choice of major, course rigor and grades count, so that you better have top grades and excellent rigor if you want engineering or business.
This system was chosen by the people of Texas. The alternatives were either using affirmative action (which overwhelmingly Texans don’t want) or homogenization of school district budgets, meaning higher taxes for the wealthy counties.
This solution is the best for all people involved. That’s why it was chosen. You can’t have your cake and eat it too - the people who made that choice weighted the different possibilities and chose what was fairest and in agreement with their beliefs.

The goal of the University of Texas is to serve all people on Texas, not just the affluent suburbs of Houston and Dallas. The public universities exist to serve the top students from each district throughout a very large, very diverse state. They’re a common good.
Top students who can’t get into UT and have high test scores can get into excellent universities such as UT Dallas, with some if the best merit scholarships in the country.
Also, Texas used to have grants, but a while back the state government decided to convert them to loans so that students had 'skin in the game '.