| TO: | Honorable Geanie Morrison, Chair, House Committee on Higher Education |
| FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HB78 by Branch (Relating to limitations on the automatic admission of undergraduate students to general academic teaching institutions.), As Introduced |
The bill would amend the current automatic admission of high school students graduating in the top ten percent of their class by allowing universities to admit as little as 40 percent of the institution's enrollment capacity to these students. Institutions would be required to offer admission to those applicants by percentile rank according to their graduating class standing until a sufficient number of applicants have accepted admission offers to fill those spaces. There would be no significant fiscal impact on the state.
| Source Agencies: | 710 Texas A&M University System Administrative and General Offices, 720 The University of Texas System Administration, 781 Higher Education Coordinating Board
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, MN, RT, JMI
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