Texas engaged in a large-scale policy experiment when it instituted the Top 10% Plan. This policy guarantees automatic …

from affirmative action to the Top 10% Plan in Texas decreased both retention and graduation rates of lower-ranked minority … hypothesis. These results suggest that most of the increase in the graduation gap between minorities and non-minorities in Texas …

In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase … newly available administrative data from the University of Texas at Austin, we take advantage of the unique policy … environment provided by Texas's Top Ten Percent automatic admissions law, which has not only increased the diversity of high …