A PROPOSED admissions policy change at Texas A&M University is rapidly devolving into a squabble over what constitutes racial preferences. Student leaders and anti-preference activists charge that the A&M regents’ plan to admit the top 20 percent of high school seniors from some of Texas’s poorly performing schools is both impractical and illegal.
On December 7, the A&M Board of Regents unanimously gave the nod for Texas A&M-College Station to pursue a new admissions policy, the gist of which would be automatic admission for the top 20 percent of graduating seniors from about 250 high schools classified by the state as “underperforming.” These schools are minority-heavy.
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