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House Bill 1843 |
House Author: Branch |
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Effective: 6-14-13 |
Senate Sponsor: Seliger |
Current law provides an exception to the state's top 10 percent rule that allows The University of Texas at Austin to limit offers of automatic admission for an academic year to first‑time resident undergraduate students who qualify for such admission under that rule, if the number of qualified applicants exceeds the number required to fill 75 percent of the university's enrollment capacity designated for that year for first-time resident undergraduate students, by using a percentile ranking system until enough qualified applicants have been offered admission to fill that percentage of capacity. Another provision of that law, however, prohibits the university from limiting offers of admissions under those conditions after a specified academic year. House Bill 1843 amends the Education Code to extend that exception to allow the university to limit offers of admission under the 10 percent rule by means of such mechanism for two additional academic years, up to and including admissions for the 2017-2018 academic year.