UT for a long time has auto-admitted top 10% of Texas students, but they are dropping it to 5%
Essentially, can UH breach the students in the 6-10% range that would’ve otherwise went to UT?
c: @uhlaw97
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There must have been too many minorities getting in under the 10% rule to suit the upper echelons of UT’s powerful alums.
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I just think the population has grown so much that high school classes have gotten bigger, therefore 10% is much larger today than say 30 yrs ago.
Are they really getting that much better quality of a student by doing this?
Don’t kid yourself. UT’s admission are skyrocketing because of the SEC and success of the football team. Remember: “Sports is the front porch of the university.”
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I’m not concerned with the amount of applicants. My question is have they done the math in which they can determine lowering the cutoff makes for admittance of a significantly better student?
Or is this the typical pretentious chest thumping that’s so often synonymous with the words “The University of Texas at Austin” ?
I’m taking the latter.
Every high school kid in the top 10% will apply to UT, A&M, UH, Rice etc just because you have to apply to multiple schools.
I did the same too during my application process.
Whether they enroll is another story.
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Test question.
Name the odd school out.
a. UT
b. A&M
c. UH
d. Rice
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I applied to all of them back in the day lol
Rice will be a stretch for most people.
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We should change ours to top 4%. lmao
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They’re not lowering the cutoff, imo. They’re lowering the number of applicants they HAVE to take, thereby making more of them discretionary.
My guess is that they want to change the overall profile of their average incoming student in addition to controlling their numbers.
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They’ve been top 6% for awhile. Top 5% is not as huge a swing as 10% to 5%
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Plus A&M thinking of pausing growth due to overcrowding
UH has a chance to capture some esp with the 2027 continental improvements to the campus
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A&M pausing its growth will help UH more than UT’s change in auto-admitting the top 5% instead of top 6%.
UT is all over its auto-admission stats. You can see how its admissions and yield breaks down by geography, ethnicity and parental educational attainment. For example, 37% of admitted students whose parents didn’t graduate from HS actually enroll. 54% of those whose parents attained bachelors and 52% for those with graduate degrees. Asian population has higher than average yield.
UT enrolls 75% of its class with the top 6% auto-admit. It carefully admits an entering class to be slightly higher than the previous year and its applications have grown rapidly to a point where this move was necessary. They admit roughly 100 more kids per year. A&M seems to enroll about 800 more per class. Just guessing. A&M is up to around 13,000 per freshman class with 77K students last fall (CSTAT and GTown) vs. 8300 at UT.
UT doesn’t allow auto-admits in business, engineering, architecture, CS, nursing and pre-med without holistic review. All A&M top 10% get into engineering or business automatically.
As it’s grown, A&M’s percentage of entering students in the top 10% has dropped to high 50% last year from around 70% a few years ago. This year or next will be the peak number of HS grads in Texas. It’s wise to pause the growth but not too wise to build a bunch of dorms.
UH relies on enrollment growth for bond ratings and to encourage area development. I know that an off campus housing group used that metric to get bank debt financing to go along with the equity.
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There are big discrepancy between qualities of high school. I transferred schools my junior year from a top 10 school in the city where I was in the top 25% to another lesser school where I came in as #13 in a class of almost 600, I literally learned nothing my last 2 years of high school it was all standardize test prep for a test I passed in 10th grade.
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We have some smart folks on this board.
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My cousin who is very intelligent was an alternate for Rice. He ended up at Utah and then went to Duke flr his grad degree. He works in DC with the federal government international business development. His area is eastern Europe and of course they’re focusing a lot of reaources in Ukraine.
He was a good sport but enjoyed their win over us. I think he knows we would have won if not for Shead’s injury.
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Get rejected from ut > get rejected from aggy > go to UH. This is often the flow. A&M is often the back up school if they get rejected by UT and, such is the case for A&M to UH
Depends on the major though
For example, if someone gets rejected by McCombs but accepted into Bauer, well then they might just attend UT’s school of economics
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Should drop our acceptance rate to 55%