when does non-top10% decision come out?

ohh_miss_zanna
Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:28:58 +0000

nathanTX07, I agree with you too. I’m also number 4 in my class, and I hate this top 10% rule. There are plenty of schools like mine where only the top 5 people are freaking geniuses and the rest of the 55 kids in the top 10% are B students. Then again, there are some schools where the top 25% will all make it into top 25 universities and LACs.

The top 10% rule just lets a lot of people in who shouldn’t be let in. Chances are, if you’re “smart” enough to be in the top 10%, then you are “smart” enough to make it into Texas without guaranteed admission.

The reputation of Texas at my school and the other schools I know, is that it’s a “back up” for the kids in the top 10%. (Funny because that’s probably the best place a lot of these “top 10%ers” could make it into.) Which is total crap for people like me, because I most likely have to come here because of money issues.