U Texas Alters Admissions Rules for Valedictorians

Madison Mau, the valedictorian of a 10-student graduating class at Fayetteville High, in a 258-person town in Texas, managed to convince the University of Texas at Austin to change its admissions policies, The Texas Tribune reported. The university currently automatically admits the top 7 percent of the class of every public high school. But if you are like Mau, you may have a perfect record, but it's impossible to be in the top 7 percent. She campaigned, and the university relented, for valedictorians of such high schools.