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What is preventing someone who's a top 50% at a good high school from transferring to a crappy school at the last semester of his senior year so that he can graduate in the top 10% of his class and gets automatic admission to University of Texas and other Texas schools?
What is preventing someone who's a top 50% at a good high school from transferring to a crappy school at the last semester of his senior year so that he can graduate in the top 10% of his class and gets automatic admission to University of Texas and other Texas schools?
The rules that require you to live within that school's attendance area.
We actually had the cops come to our house because the school was suspicious that we lived on the other side of the lake outside of our district.
I like this rule a lot. (More likely that kids that would transfer would go to a non-Texas university or to SMU, etc. instead) It's like a weapons control agreement is to A-bombs: without it HSs can always insert new courses, programs, curriculae so their kids have an advantage. It becomes a treadmill to nowhere.
With the 10% rule, HSs can focus on preparing kids for college or work. What do kids need to succeed at UT, Baylor? Not, what packaging can we put on them to make them more attractive.
It greatly levels the playing field for poor HSs that can't afford educational frills. It gives their kids a chance.
I think top 10% is too much, because this admission method fills up 75% of the freshmen class at UT. They should reduce it to top 2% instead. Tons of bottom 50% at good schools are much more academically prepared than those top 10% from crappy schools.
I think top 10% is too much, because this admission method fills up 75% of the freshmen class at UT. They should reduce it to top 2% instead. Tons of bottom 50% at good schools are much more academically prepared than those top 10% from crappy schools.
The top 10% only applies to incoming freshman and not sophomore, junior and senior transfers. If you are not in the top 10%, you can always go to a junior college for a year or two, save a bunch of money and then transfer to UT.
Even though I was too 10%, I went to a junior college and then transferred into UT. At that point, they only looked at my SAT scores and college transcript from the junior college.
Even though I was too 10%, I went to a junior college and then transferred into UT. At that point, they only looked at my SAT scores and college transcript from the junior college.
Didn't you get an AA degree from junior college? Why were they even looking at your SAT at that point?
Didn't you get an AA degree from junior college? Why were they even looking at your SAT at that point?
No, I did not get an associates degree.
I'm also not conerned by the incredibly tiny number of people who MIGHT try to scam the system by sending their kid to a low performing school their senior year.
My guess is that you have more parents sneaking their kids into better schools than worse schools.
The only situation that I ever hear about is parents sneaking kids to schools where their star athlete can be on the good sports team.
When the rule in its essence is unfair, sometimes, it forces people to play unfairly to compete.
Why do you think the 10% Rule is unfair?
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