when does non-top10% decision come out?

ag54
Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:45:27 +0000

Tdrag, Yes, I do think we pretty much agree. And, trust me when I say, you DO have a good chance of getting in UT, but if you don’t Penn State would be awesome!

Good for you that you wrote your representative! That is really the only thing that can change anything. The bummer is that the legislators that really don’t want things to change have been digging in their heels on this thing for years. The supreme court changed their initial ruling in the Hopwood Decision in 2003, so there is no legal rationale for keeping the 10% rule in place. But, parts of Texas (especially the rural areas) have benefited from the ruling, and it is going to be a hard sell to the reps from those areas.

There is some talk that the rule might be tweaked to 5% or one of the other measures I stated above. There was a bunch of press at the beginning of this legislature’s session, now not so much.

Frankly, considering the Texas legislature can’t even figure out school funding (and they’ve been working on that for YEARS), I don’t have much faith that this issue will be resolved until the regents at UT start screaming (and louder than they have already screamed).

Just my two cents ;)

Do you go to one of the Plano schools? We have been up there the last couple of years for lacrosse tournaments (in fact that darn Plano East knocked us out of the state finals two years ago). Those are ENORMOUS schools!