> Here in Texas, any student from the top 10% of their high school is guaranteed a place at the flagship University of Texas at Austin. > high schools in under

> Here in Texas, any student from the top 10% of their high school is guaranteed a place at the flagship University of Texas at Austin. > high schools in underprivileged areas - rural or urban - will produce students who are nowhere nearly as prepared as students from elite or wealthy schools. The most cynical read of the Texas policy is that it is an end-around of the SCOTUS ruling that relies on continued, widespread school segregation in Texas. If Texas schools were not segregated by race and wealth, this policy would not have the result of producing the diverse classes that the University of Texas system desires. The university system depends on the unfairness of the K-12 system to achieve its narrow set of policy goals.