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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These are the Ters

Cal, UCLA, Mich
UT Austin, UNC, UVA, GTech, UCSB, UCSD

UF UGA Wisc, UCI, UCDavis,

UIUC

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Close. More like:

Cal, UCLA, Mich
UNC, UVA, GTech
UF, Wisco
UGA, UIUC, Purdue

Notice all those other UC schools are absent. Just because U.S. News & Woke Reports ranks them highly now because of Pell Grant and first-gen data doesn't mean they're elite schools. Solid, yes, but not among the 10-12 best publics -- no way.[/quote]

Why did you leave UT-Austin (the school this thread is actually about) off your list? It belongs somewhere in between your 2nd and 3rd groups of schools.[/quote]

Oversight. It should be with UF and Wisco despite its impossible admissions from OOS. That is balanced by the fact that anyone from Texas can get in, even with a 900 SAT, if they finish in the top 6% of their hood/trailer park high school.[/quote]

No one who gets a 900 on the SAT is finishing in the top 6% of their high school class...no matter how hood/trailer park.[/quote]

It does seem low.  However, there is no question that the top 6% rule allows students to matriculate to Texas that wouldn’t  be admitted if they were [b]based on merit[/b]. [/quote]
Huh? Top 10 in a class of 200 or so at some terrible high school in a rural area near the Mexican border? You deserve it, based on merit. Will you then have to up your game and make up deficits at UT? Yes. [/quote]

The average SAT score in Texas is about 1000.  So 900 is not out of line with the Texas public schools.

And I agree.  Students who are in schools in the worst gang infested neighborhoods where nobody is invested in education and they still did a good job deserve a chance.   [/quote]

The average SAT score in the whole country is 1028.[/quote]

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