In The News
"10%
Admissions -- The Full Impact."
Published
in Inside Higher Education, April 6, 2009.
"Top 10 Percent Change Must Not Punish Minority Students."
Published in The Dallas Morning News, March 14, 2009
"Top 10%
Rule Closer to Change." Published in the El Paso Times (TX),
March 5, 2009
"UT President Warns of Consequences to Automatic-Admission Law"
Austin
American-Statesman, March 5, 2009.
"Erasing Race"
Published
in The Economist, February 26, 2009.
"The 10% Fight is Back."
Published in
Inside Higher Education, January 12, 2009.
"UT-Austin
pushes lawmakers to modify 'top 10 percent rule.'" Published in
The Houston Chronicle, January 7, 2009.
More News »
STUDY OVERVIEW
The Texas Higher
Education Opportunity Project (THEOP) investigates college planning and enrollment
behavior under a policy that guarantees high school seniors who
graduate in the top 10% of their class admission to any Texas
public college or university. The study is based on a two-cohort
longitudinal survey of sophomores and seniors who were enrolled in
Texas public schools as of spring, 2002. The senior cohort was
re-interviewed in 2003 and again in 2006. Sophomores were
re-interviewed in 2004, when most were high school seniors.
[Survey Overview]
The investigators have also assembled administrative data from 7
public and 2 private universities in Texas. The administrative data files,
which include applicant records and term files for enrollees, have
been standardized for maximum comparability over time
and across institutions.
The baseline applicant files
provide data on personal background, educational background, and application data.
[Administrative
Data Overview]
CURRENT EVENTS
In the News - Texas Legislature Changes the Top
10% Law
Revised Top 10% Bill
[SB
175] Passed by the 81st Texas
Legislature on May 30, 2009.
News
"Texas
Limits 10% Admissions"
Published in Inside Higher Ed,
June 1, 2009.
"Texas
Senate passes new Top-10 admissions rule for UT Austin"
Published in Dallas Morning News, May
31, 2009.
Background
"Bill
Changing Top 10% Law in House's Hands"
Published in Houston Chronicle, March
30, 2009.
"At a Glance: New Top 10 Percent Proposal"
Published in Dallas Morning News, March 25, 2009.
Release of Public-Use Data Sets
Documentation for Public Use Administrative College Application and
College Transcript Data is now available, and can be found under
Data Documentation
[Administrative
Data]
***
Public Use Administrative College Application and College Transcript
Data is now available for download from the
OPR
Data Archive. ***
*** Public Use Sophomore Wave 2 Survey Data is now available for
download from the OPR
Data Archive
. ***
