Now, how would you have reacted if your boy was rejected in favor of a minority that graduated in the top 10% of some no-name HS?.
Wouldn't like that, in fact, I wager, you would be howling. And I know UT, lectured there many times and they are mostly left-wing nutburgers in the pol-sci department. I am not impressed by UT.
My son went to one of the better public high schools in Austin, it is the same school where the Bush daughters attended and most of the local political and business elite send their kids. It is a tough school to place in the Top 10% but it obviously can be done.
And if my boy had been rejected from UT in favor of some minority kid that would have been just fine with him. He would have instead done his first year at one of the other UT schools and entered UT as a sophomore and would still graduate with that UT degree.
No big deal as it is only the freshman year at UT that kids are missing out on.