What is this all about top 10%?

ag54
Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:23:39 +0000

Actually, it was in reaction to the “Hopwood Decision”

which took the position that the University of Texas Law School could not take race into account in admissions either to promote diversity or to remedy the effects or the State’s formerly segregated system of public education, but could only seek to remedy the Law School’s own discrimination.





In response to the judicial ban on the use of race-sensitive admissions, the seventy-fifth Texas legislature passed H.B. 588, which guarantees admission to any Texas public college or university for all seniors graduating in the top decile of their class.