Top Ten Percent

The Senate Higher Education Committee approved on Wednesday with a four to one vote for a revision on the Top Ten Percent law. The Dallas Morning News article, "Legislation proposes revamping Texas top 10 percent law for college admissions," describes how the automatic admission of the top 10% of the class will be altered better suited for diverse teenagers. The revision has been used to show teenagers with leadership skills, individuality, and talents that they have a chance at their dreams in a public Texas university. Many freshmen hoping for admission in public Texas universities, will have to compete for space and no longer have to fight with the automatic admissions of the top ten percentile.

With the revision of this law it allows teenagers with talent but low academics a spot in Texas public universities without contention of space to be automatically accepted by the top ten percent rule. For many people applying to colleges now, they will have to consider things outside the academics to show how well rounded they are. This subject applies to incoming freshmen which are considering admissions into a public university, to now include extracurricular activities in their schedules. People who are in public universities now will not be affected. However if this rule was revised before, many colleges would have had spots for many students with diverse backgrounds.