This will mostly be of interest to law school applicants for next year: For many years, my institution, the University of Texas School of Law, had an 80% in-state residency requirement on admissions (so only 20% of the class consisted of non-residents). Fortunately, Texas is a very big state (only California is bigger), and the pool has been quite strong. But because of the relatively high in-state residency requirement, we have had to turn away many highly qualified non-resident applicants each year. Starting next year, however, Texas will be able to admit up to 35% of the class from out-of-state. Given that even non-resident tuition at UT is well below tuition at our competitors (both private schools like Penn and Georgetown, and public schools like Boalt and Virginia), this is likely to be of special interest to many non-resident applicants next year.
UPDATE: A word of clarification, since several readers have e-mailed with questions about this: the change in the law will permit 35% of the matriculated class to be non-residents, as compared to 20% now. The percentage of non-residents and residents offered admission may be different (since the yield is always higher on resident admits, my guess [I am not involved in admissions] would be that far, far fewer than 65% of resident applicants will be offered admission in the future, just as, I would guess, far, far fewer than 80% of resident applicants are now offered admission).
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