6.43 out of a 6.5 ACT score was a 32- Which means I scored in the top 1% in the country. Had all the extracurricular bull**** too, football captain, volunteered, internships, in clubs, Mr. ______ High School see post above regarding how good my high school was. I was also accepted into much better schools than UT also, like the bulk of the california schools except Berkeley. But my heart resided at Texas so I really just applied to those other schools for ****s and giggles. At least they got their head out of their ass and accepted me off the wait list.
So UT did accept you? I thought that it should. No arguments then. I was questioning people who said they got rejected with a SAT score of 2000-2100 ...
You have to remember the reasons they came up with the top 10% law. Once they decided on doing it, they had to draw the line somewhere.
Having served on an admissions committee before, I can tell you that there is always going to be an arbitrary cut off, regardless of your standard. If you are allowed to admit X students, there probably isn't going to be any significant difference between who is #X on your list and who is #(X+1).
That doesn't really tell us whether or not your school was good. That just tells us that the top 34 students at your school were all comparable. They could have been 34 mediocre students for all we know. :grin: I'm glad you still got into UT, by the way.
They didn't have to draw a line anywhere when it came to class rank. It's a pointless rule meant to navigate around affirmative action.
Yay, continue to encourage herd mentality with SAT. College isn't about learning to think for yourself, lolz.
I don't know hardly any admissions process where they have a standard that says "If you are below X score/rank, you have 0% chance of admission." Or for that matter "If you are above X score/rank, you have 100% chance of admission." What committee were you a part of (grad, undergrad, etc)? What school? Don't feel obligated to divulge, just curious.
SAT is hard knowledge. It's rigid. It's the basics. Everyone is supposed to know these things to succeed in academia. A good SAT score and "independent thought" are not mutually exclusive, and to say that one discourages the other is ridiculous.
If you think it is right to not admit people to college based on a holistic process that weighs their individual merits then yeah, the top ten percent rule is the right thing to do.
Alief schoold are freaking harvard compared to some of the schools in smaller Texas towns. My wife had to live in Dimebox, Texas for two years during highschool, and they only offered Geometry every other year. I'm not sure if they even offered Calculus. Should we penalize those kids?
You are looking at it only from your point of view. You don't consider others. I think there are pros and cons. A fair example: http://www.hro.house.state.tx.us/focus/topten79-7.pdf
I've looked at it from every point of view. I wrote my freaking senior thesis on this. Look at my earlier posts. I agree there is a problem. However, there are better ways to fix it than this.
