Texas at Austin will only automatically admit summer/fall 2014 applicants in the top 7 percent of their graduating class.
Though Texas law guarantees automatic admission to the state's public universities to students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school senior class, legislators modified the law in 2009 to allow UT Austin to limit such automatic admissions to 75 percent of its freshman slots for Texas residents.
The rest are chosen through a holistic review that various factors, includes race, which is now being contested before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The court heard oral arguments this month in a case brought by Abigail Noel Fisher, a student from Sugar Land who claimed she would have been admitted as an undergraduate to UT in 2008 had she not been white.
Starting in summer/fall 2011, when the admissions changes went into effect, the university only automatically admitted those in the top 8 percent of their classes, said UT spokesman Gary Susswein.
In summer/fall 2012, the university automatically admitted those in the top 9 percent and ended up with a record-breaking freshman class of more than 8,000 students this fall, Susswein said.
For summer/fall 2013, automatic admissions will drop back to 8 percent and then 7 percent in summer/fall 2014, Susswein said.
"Based on our applications and our yield, the number of students who come, we determine how many we need to accept to reach 75 percent," he said.
The TEA notice directed school administrators to share the changes with high school juniors and their parents.
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