[trumandogz]

The core issue remains: Is it fair to reject someone that was in the top of their class BECAUSE of their race?

For now, if you are in the Top 10% of your class, you can gain admission to UT no matter your race.

However, even with that standard, UT is overwhelmed with admissions and is changing the policy to what amounts to the Top 8%.

There are no easy answers and even with the Top 10% rule, less than 5% of the undergraduate population is African American.

Therefore, there is little evidence that white kids are being denied admission to UT in favor or African American kids.

[Hulka]

Then why the rule to give preference based upon race.

Because they do discriminate based on race.

Also, look at all back HS’s in Dallas or Houston, then your numbers are wrong. Like I said, hard workers in a “high”-standard HS are discriminated because some black guy graduates from some low-standard HS. So, some nice guy in your high school gets passed over because a) he is white, and b) some black kid in some low end school is in the top 10 or 8%; (but would have been in the bottom 50%, or to be generous, the top 25% of your school.)