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[quote=Anonymous]It's more competitive for out of state students than you would think due to a policy set by the Texas state legislature where 75% of the student body is accepted by being in the top 10% of the high school class (or 7 or 8 or whatever percent, depending on the population of college-bound seniors that year). It was designed to allow equal access to the flagship institution for students across the state, whether they came from wealthy suburban high schools, magnet schools, inner city high schools, or small rural high schools. This means the remainder of the 25% is accepted via "holistic review" which includes athletes and out of state students. Supposedly, the acceptance rate for students outside of auto-admission through graduating in the top 10% of their class is under 10%. So the average GPA/SAT scores don't really tell the whole picture about the competitiveness.[/quote]
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