April 22, 2005

The Contest to Qualify

By KARIN FISCHER

Students at Texas high schools focus on where they rank, a ticket to the best state colleges

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Near the entrance to Jesse H. Jones Senior High School stands a large bulletin board papered with college acceptance letters. Among them are offers of admission from the University of Houston and Prairie View A&M University, a historically black college 40 miles away. There

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