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Texas Schools Like UT Austin Use This Rule To Artificially Boost ‘Diversity’ Instead Of Merit

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The recent reaction to the video of a large section of seemingly South Asian fans cheering at the University of Texas at Austin football game drew attention to the skewed demographics at that school and the state’s university system writ large.

Racial and ethnic minorities make up 68.9 percent of undergraduates, and 56.2 percent of undergraduates are women. Meanwhile, only 13 percent of enrolled undergraduates at UT Austin are white males.

That number surprised many, but Texas law has been artificially inflating racial “diversity” at its universities since the 1990s.

While on the one hand, Texas law requires that no more than 10 percent of non-residents of the state be admitted to universities, there is another 10 percent rule that helps to artificially boost “diversity” at its schools.

Texas had attempted to use race as an admissions criterion in the 1990s, but in 1996, the federal Fifth Circuit Court ruled that Texas was not allowed to do so.

The decision had immediate impacts that revealed how race-based admissions had affected admissions. The class admitted immediately after the 1996 ruling saw major decreases of Hispanic (minus-15 percent) and black (minus-25 percent) enrollment.

In 1997, the Texas legislature responded to the court decision with an explicit attempt to shoehorn in racial “diversity” to the UT system. The Texas legislature passed the “Top 10 Percent Law,” which required that the top 10 percent of each private or public high school graduating class would receive automatic offers of admission into the UT........

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