March 27, 2008
Major Shifts in College Admissions Policies in Texas Had Unforeseen Consequences
New York
Texas essentially became the site of a large-scale education experiment as a result of two developments in the 1990s. The first was a 1996 federal-court decision, Hopwood v. Texas, that barred the state's public colleges from using race-conscious admissions. The second was state lawmakers' subsequent move to guarantee Texans who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high-school classes admission to a public college of their choice.
Over the past decade, researchers
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