Top 10 percent college admissions law will stay as is

Web Posted: 05/28/2007 12:48 AM CDT

Polly Ross Hughes and Lisa Sandberg
Express-News

AUSTIN — In a surprise move, the Texas House shot down a bill Sunday night that would have limited automatic admissions at the University of Texas at Austin for students graduating in the top 10 percent of their class.

A cheer went up in the chamber with the final vote, 75-64, against adopting a compromise bill that would have let public universities cap admissions of high-ranking students at 50 percent.

"The top 10 percent (law) has worked well. We should keep it because it says all of our high schools are created equal," said Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston.

The Texas Legislature passed the law 10 years ago to encourage racial and ethnic diversity after a court temporarily banned racial preferences in college admissions.

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