AUSTIN (KXAN) — The University of Texas at Austin will soon cut down on the number of top Texas high school students automatically admitted to the university, dropping the threshold from 6% to 5%.

Students on the South Mall at the University of Texas at Austin on Feb. 22, 2024. (Maria Crane/The Texas Tribune, Maria Crane/The Texas Tribune) Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Starting this fall, students applying to the University of Texas at Austin will need to include their standardized testing scores. The change comes four years after UT removed ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- The University of Texas at Austin will once again require applicants to submit standardized test scores, beginning with applications to enroll in the fall of 2025. The university ...

Higher education in the United States ― and in Texas ― is not the same as it was last year. This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned affirmative action ― or race-conscious admissions ― policies, ...

The University of Texas at Austin will once again require standardized testing scores for undergraduate admissions after four years of a pandemic-induced policy that waived the practice. The decision ...

Students walk through the University of Texas campus. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that colleges can no longer consider race in admissions. Credit: Texas Tribune / Leila Saidane The U.S.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The University of Texas at Austin reached record enrollment and application numbers for the fall semester. UT said more than 66,000 students submitted applications for this fall, which ...

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