Top 10 percent rule is unfair

Hunt
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:55:35 +0000

“If these students are in the top 10%, then they are qualified. Defining them as weak students is insulting.”

This is where I can’t agree with you. The fact that a student is in in the top 10% based on GPA at a weak high school does not mean that the student is really qualified to compete at UT. He may be, or he may not be. It’s not an insult to point this out. Indeed, I’d be interested in knowing about what UT has done to deal with the influx of students who would not have been admitted without this program. Are they flunking out? Has UT established remedial programs? Or are those students in fact performing as well as anybody else?