2025 Notification of Eligibility for Automatic College Admission for Students Eligible to Enter College in 2025

posted November 2023

NOTIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR AUTOMATIC COLLEGE ADMISSION

FOR STUDENTS ELIGIBLE TO ENTER COLLEGE IN 2025

This notice confirms that, pending the satisfaction of all applicable requirements (see below),

will be eligible for automatic college admission.

A student is eligible for automatic admission to a college or university as an undergraduate student if the

applicant earned a grade point average in the top 10 percent of the student's high school graduating class

(Texas Education Code, §51.803). If an eligible student is applying as an undergraduate to the University of

Texas at Austin in the summer/fall 2025 or spring 2026, the applicant must earn a grade point average in the

top 6 percent of the student’s high school graduating class. The applicant in either case must also:

(1) earn the distinguished level of achievement under the Foundation High School

Program; or

(2) satisfy ACT's College Readiness Benchmarks on the ACT assessment or earn on the SAT

assessment a score of at least 1,500 out of 2,400 or the equivalent.

In accordance with Title 19 Texas Administrative Code (TAC), §5.5(e), high school rank for students seeking

automatic admission to a general academic teaching institution on the basis of class rank is determined and

reported as follows.

(1) Class rank shall be based on the end of the 11th grade, middle of the 12th grade, or at high

school graduation, whichever is most recent at the application deadline.

(2) The top 10 percent of a high school class shall not contain more than 10 percent of the total

class size.

(3) The student's rank shall be reported by the applicant's high school or school district as a specific

number out of a specific number total class size.

(4) Class rank shall be determined by the school or school district from which the student graduated

or is expected to graduate.

An applicant who does not satisfy the course requirements is considered to have satisfied those

requirements if the student completed the distinguished level of achievement under the Foundation High

School Program that was available to the student but was unable to complete the remainder of the

coursework solely because courses were unavailable to the student at the appropriate times in the student's

high school career as a result of circumstances not within the student's control.

To qualify for automatic admission an applicant must:

(1) submit an application before the deadline established by the college or university to which the

student seeks admission;

(2) meet all curriculum requirements for admission established by the college or university to which the

student seeks admission; and

(3) provide a high school transcript or diploma that indicates whether the student has satisfied or is on

schedule to satisfy the requirements of the distinguished level of achievement under the Foundation

High School Program or the portion of the distinguished level of achievement under the Foundation

High School Program that was available to the student.

Colleges and universities are required to admit an applicant for admission as an undergraduate student if the

applicant is the child of a public servant who was killed or sustained a fatal injury in the line of duty and

meets the minimum requirements, if any, established by the governing board of the college or university for

high school or prior college-level grade point average and performance on standardized tests.