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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m from Texas and a UT grad (2014). The rule used to be the top 10% but the state dropped it be more competitive. The main issue is that the top 6% vary widely by school/ district. For example, I went to a large Dallas high school that had 1400 seniors in my graduating class, the top 6% all had a GPA well over 4.5 (weighted). If you didn’t take the max number of APs and opt out of certain electives that had a lower value you would never make it to the top 6%. However, my suite mate freshman year was from the Rio Grande Valley and went to a high school where being in the top 6% meant a GPA of 3.2 or above. That means some students may have to work a lot harder, but that is true everywhere.

I think this also causes these top Texas schools to be safeties for many high ranking students and then there are less admits from lower ranked students in the class since spots were “full” for that school/ district.

I will say GPAs and rankings are nuts. Our top two students were locked in a bitter lawsuit over one thousandths of a decimal point.

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it's the fault of the state if they allow to districts to offer massively dissimilar educations. I actually like that a very conservative state [b]is pretending that all districts are equal for the purpose of college admission[/b] rather than punishing kids who live in substandard school districts [/quote]

Yep. It definitely hits the equity mark.
Of course, no one talks about the $%& show that is created when the freshman psychology teacher has the joy of grading on that bell curve where the kid for the Rio Grande Valley is always at the bottom due to this pretense during the admissions phase that all students who were admitted would do equally well. Just make sure these professors know that they are not to discuss their consternation about the disparity on a zoom call that's being recorded or they will risk being fired for pointing out the obvious issues such a policy creates.[/quote]

Did you listen to the podcast? [/quote]

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