81st Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 175, Chapter 1342 Page: 3 of 21
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S.B. No. 175
1 this subsection, the university shall offer admission to those
2 applicants by percentile rank according to high school graduating
3 class standing based on grade point average, beginning with the top
4 percentile rank, until the applicants qualified under Subsection
5 (a) have been offered admission in the number estimated in good
6 faith by the university as sufficient to fill 75 percent of the
7 university's enrollment capacity designated for first-time
8 resident undergraduate students, except that the university must
9 offer admission to all applicants with the same percentile rank.
10 After the applicants qualified for automatic admission under
11 Subsection (a) have been offered admission under this subsection in
12 the number estimated in good faith as sufficient to fill 75 percent
13 of the designated enrollment capacity described by this subsection,
14 the university shall consider any remaining applicants qualified
15 for automatic admission under Subsection (a) in the same manner as
16 other applicants for admission as first-time undergraduate
17 students in accordance with Section 51.805.
18 (a-2) If the number of applicants who apply to a general19 academic teaching institution during the current academic year for
20 admission in the next academic year and who qualify for automatic
21 admission to a general academic teaching institution under
22 Subsection (a) exceeds 75 percent of the institution's enrollment
23 capacity designated for first-time resident undergraduate students
24 for that next academic year and the institution plans to offer
25 admission under Subsection (a-1) during the next school year, the
26 institution shall, in the manner prescribed by the Texas Education
27 Agency and not later than September 15, provide to each school3
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Texas. Legislature. Senate. 81st Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 175, Chapter 1342, legislative document, June 19, 2009; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth149442/m1/3/?q=%22Education+-+Colleges+and+Universities%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.