March 15, 2002
Texas A&M Scraps Admissions Plan
Texas A&M University officials have shelved a controversial plan to admit the top 20 percent of graduates from 250 Texas high schools. Officials announced this month that they were considering altering the proposal to reduce the number of schools on the list and ensure that the criteria used to choose them were not based on race.
"We're not going to do anything until we're confident it's not race-based and can be defended as not race-based," said Scott Kelly, the university's
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