UT-Austin tightens automatic admission threshold to 5% of Texas’ top high schoolers

The University of Texas at Austin tower on July 16, 2020. (Credit: Allie Goulding/The Texas Tribune)

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High school students in Texas will need to be in the top 5% of their graduating class to gain automatic admission to the University of Texas at Austin to enroll in the fall of 2026, a harder threshold to meet than the current 6%.