In a letter to alumni and donors, UTAustin President Bill Powers lays out the devastating effect of the legislative admissions policy. By next year, 100 percent of students will be automatically admitted under the rule. Powers spells out the consequences:
We will be a university with no place for the outstanding musician, actress, or dancer. Without international students who have so much to teach us from their home cultures. Without the student body presidents, newspaper editors, and gifted leaders who are in the 11th percentile of their classes.
Why can’t the Top 10 Rule be modified? Because Speaker Tom Craddick of Midland refuses to consider it. Which is another good reason to hope that indications he will be pulled from the podium in the next session are true.
Clarification: see here.
