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A bill has been approved by the Texas Senate that would change a state law, which required University of Texas Austin to accept all in-state students who ranked in the top 10 percent of their high school class.
The change would limit the number of students admitted in this manner to only 60 percent of all incoming freshman classes, meaning each individual UT campus would have discretion over the other 40 percent.
What this means practically is that out-of-state applicants to UT Austin will have a better chance of getting into the elite state university.
For a number of years, UT Austin has been as hard to get into as an out-of-state student as the most competitive public universities in the country. In fact, only 5 percent of UT Austin's undergraduate population is from out-of-state because of the law requiring preference for in-state top 10 percent studnets.
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