The Top Ten % Rule in Texas State Colleges

The district corps determined that the board, the admissions deciding board, acted with an impermissible racial purpose when it sought to decrease enrolment of over represented asian american students at t j. As the court explained, board members discussions were permeated with racial balancing and its use of racial data to model proposed outcomes. In other words, the ten % rule was enacted to over come a specifically racially directed admissions practice.