Texas Senate subcommittee OKs bill to require colleges to consider SAT, ACT in admissions
- vkorobko1
- Apr 18, 2023
- 1 min read
The Texas Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education advanced a bill Monday that would require public universities to consider standardized test scores in their admissions processes.
Texas public universities currently are required to automatically admit in-state high school students for undergraduate programs if they are in the top 10% of their graduating class, although the University of Texas has a unique exception allowing it to only automatically admit students in the top 6%.
For the undergraduate students who don't qualify for automatic admission, public universities can consider a variety of factors, including extracurricular activities, academics, test scores and socioeconomic status, but they are not required to consider any of these factors, according to the Texas Education Code.
