THECB Freshman stats

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Just published for 2018.

http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/reports/PDF/12390.PDF?CFID=98184990&CFTOKEN=39184692

Some stats… We are second in the state in acceptance percentage and third in the state among football schools in the number of Top 10% HS enrollees.

Applications
Texas 45,241
A&M 35,566
Texas State 24,923
Texas Tech 24,227
Houston 22,958
North Texas 17,612
UTSA 16,943

Acceptances
A&M 23,694
Texas State 19,733
Texas 19,050
Texas Tech 15,611
Houston 14,417
North Texas 13,915
UTSA 13,391

Acceptance %
Texas 42%
Houston 63%
Texas Tech 64%
A&M 67%
Texas State 79%
North Texas 79%
UTSA 79%

Enrolled
A&M 10,579
Texas 8,959
Texas Tech 6,171
Texas State 6,159
Houston 5,201
UTSA 4,982
North Texas 4,677

Top 10% Enrolled
Texas 5,862
A&M 5,797
Houston 1,500
Texas Tech 1,121
UTSA 808
Texas State 767
North Texas 716

Top 10% Percentage
Texas 65%
A&M 55%
Houston 29%
Texas Tech 18%
UTSA 16%
North Texas 15%
Texas State 12%

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I always like this % which no one seems to report but is easy to calculate.

School % Accepted Who Enrolled
UT 47.0%
ATM 44.6%
TTU 39.5%
UTSA 37.2%
UH 36.1%
UNT 33.6%
Texas ST 31.2%
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It’s the 8th year in a row that Houston has finished third in the state in the total number of freshmen enrollees who graduated Top 10% of their HS class…

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Awesome. We continue to improve.

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Those enrollment numbers when stacked against total enrollment also indicate the large number of drop outs Texas State has, with Tech coming up behind them.

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UT Dallas is another school that belongs on these lists, and we compare pretty favorably against them.

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I limited it to football schools.

We don’t compare favorably with UT Dallas except on size.

On the front end, their freshmen have higher SAT scores and a larger proportion of them graduated Top 10% of their HS class.

On the back end, their graduation rate is much higher than ours.

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I guess favorably wasn’t the right word. Academically they’re probably the stronger school, yet we’re only 3% behind them in terms of top 10% enrolled percentage despite having a much larger class size. Top 25% we have some catching up to do though.

I wish TECB reported SAT stats. I’d like to see if we’ve gained any ground on that front.

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Averaging the SAT 75/25 percentiles for reading and math from the Common Data Set. Note the SAT scores were inflated a couple of years ago under a new scale. We gained about 70 points:

Texas 1355
UT Dallas 1330
A&M 1275
TCU 1245
Oklahoma 1245
Houston 1220
Arkansas 1195
LSU 1180
Oklahoma St 1170
North Texas 1160
Texas Tech 1155
New Mexico 1145
UTSA 1130
Texas State 1095

I would not be surprised if UT wasn’t offering it’s top tier rejected candidates the chance (and maybe scholarship money) to go to UT Dallas.

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