UT admissions is based on the Top Ten Percent Rule.
If you are in the top 10% of your high school class, you are admitted to UT.
If not, you can go to one of the other schools in the state.
The kid should have worked a little harder in high school and kept up with the top 10% of his class.
If that was the only criteria, no problem, but “The University of Texas does use race as a factor in admissions.” That is a Big Problem. That is a racial discrimination problem, and if the left taught us anything, they taught us racial discrimination is wrong.
The top 10% rule did supplant racial preferences, or was substituted as a proxy for racial preference. The result is that kids in the 89th percentile from very good schools don’t get in, while kids in the 90th from marginal schools do. A lot of private schools just don’t give a rank in class to avoid this. Side effect is that is it much easier to get into to the flagship universities at the sophomore or later levels, because huge vacancies occur from inadequately prepared students admitted by the top 10% rule. My understanding is the last legislature has changed this rule.
That's what I thought, too. But, according to the original article in American Thinker, that's no longer the case:
Thus, following the decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, race was once again considered as a factor in admissions, and the number of African-American students admitted to the university doubled. In similar fashion, the number of Hispanic students increased by 65%.