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UT's admissions are dictated by state law: the top 6% of all Texas high school students are offered automatic entry to the university — making up 75% of the school's incoming class.
Its offices are located at the University's campus in Austin, Texas, United States. It offers distance education high school courses which allows academically talented students to earn high school credit or a diploma from anywhere in the world. It operates as a four-year school, serving students in grades 9–12.
Plan II Honors is a major at The University of Texas at Austin, offered since 1935.It is an interdisciplinary program that grants a Bachelor of Arts degree.. The program is notable for its relative selectivity, as most students come from the top 5% of their graduating high school classes while the average SAT score is over 1400 (out of 1600) [1].
As a state public university, UT Austin was subject to Texas House Bill 588, which guaranteed Texas high school seniors graduating in the top 10% of their class admission to any public Texas university. A new state law granting UT Austin (but no other state university) a partial exemption from the top 10% rule, Senate Bill 175, was passed by ...
Texas House Bill 588, commonly referred to as the "Top 10% Rule", is a Texas law passed in 1997. It was signed into law by then governor George W. Bush on May 20, 1997. The law guarantees Texas students who graduated in the top ten percent of their high school class automatic admission to all state-funded universities.
The University of Texas System Chancellor James Milliken, left, speaks to Chairman Kevin Eltife during a meeting at the University of Texas System building in Downtown Austin, Nov. 20, 2024.
Millions of high school students apply to college each year, with approximately 4.23 million in the high school graduating age group in 2018–19 and an estimated 3.68 million high school graduates (3.33 million and 0.35 million coming from public and private schools respectively). [4]
All three apartments are within the Austin Independent School District and are zoned to Mathews Elementary School, O. Henry Middle School, and Austin High School. [49] Many children of the UT Austin students living at Brackenridge and Colorado attend Mathews Elementary. [48] School buses come to Brackenridge to pick up students to go to Mathews.