​The "Top 8 Percent Rule" _____

question 21

Multiple Choice

​The "top 8 percent rule" _____.

• A)​was designed to give university access to students who graduated from urban minority schools
• B)​was designed to ensure that diversity would remain at state universities
• C)requires the University of Texas and Texas A&M to admit anyone who finished in the top 8 percent of his or her high school class
• D)​was response to a Texas attorney general ruling that affirmative action could not be used for admission to institutions of higher learning
• E)​all of these

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