Texas House Bill 588
Texas House Bill 588 is a Texas law passed in 1997. It acts to guarantee automatic admission to all state funded universities for students who graduated in the top ten percent of their high school class. It's drawn praise and criticism alike, often for favoring minorities or being unfairly balanced against small high schools. It has been blamed for keeping students not in the top ten percent, but with other credentials, out of the larger state universities, such as the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University. Some administrators, such as UT Austin President Larry Faulkner, have advocated capping the number of top ten percent students for any year at one half of the incoming class. The law is next able to be revised during the 79th Regular Session (2005). External LinksUniversity of Texas at Austin: Perceptions of entering freshmen on HB 588Editorial against HB 588Editorial in favor of HB 588
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