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Tazate · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

In 1997, in an attempt to give the best students from poor and minority public school

districts an equal footing in university admissions without falling afoul of the Hopwood decision, the legislature enacted a law that guaranteed automatic admission to state universities for high school graduates who finished in the top _____ percent of their class.
A) two
B) five
C) ten
D) fifteen
E) twenty

Question 2

A 1997 law concerning Texas university admissions policies allowed university officials deciding which students would be admitted to consider criteria such as

A) a student's family income and individual income, and a parent's employment.
B) a parent's education level and income level, and the student's employment.
C) a student's high school class standing and income level, and a parent's employment. D) a student's family income and high school standing, and a parent's education level.
E) a parent's education and employment, and a student's employment in the armed forces.