Posted on 07/20/2015 1:25:01 PM PDT by jimbo123
Tom Hicks, Kay Bailey Hutchison among those who helped underqualified students get in to UT-Austin, records show.
Dozens of highly influential Texans – including lawmakers, millionaire donors and university regents – helped under-qualified students get into the University of Texas at Austin, often by writing to UT officials, records show.
Among those who wrote directly to then-President Bill Powers and then-Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa, bypassing the admissions office, were famed golfer and UT grad Ben Crenshaw, former UT regent Scott Craven, Austin lawyer Roy Minton and Sens. Kevin Eltife and Carlos Uresti, records obtained by The Dallas Morning News show.
Dozens of other famous UT alumni also helped tip the scales. They include House Speaker Joe Straus, former U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, former regents Jess Hay and Thomas Hicks, former chairman of the state University Coordinating Board Larry Temple and former UT quarterback Randy McEachern.
The letters surfaced through an outside investigation into the admission process, known as the Kroll report. The investigation highlighted 73 students from 2009 to 2012 who entered the state’s premier campus despite relatively low high school grade averages (less than 2.9 on the 4.0 scale) and SAT scores of less than 1100. Such marks would usually have precluded their admission.
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Allow me to perform a public service here by translating the following:
“Underqualified” means UNQUALIFIED!!!
Any questions?
Curious how these students ended up.
Probably working for the Jeb campaign.
Were most of these admitted athletes???? It seems there were a lot of former athletes involved....
We can always count on the liberal richy richies to be generous with other people’s money and their earned opportunity.
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