The University of Texas at Austin will soon cut down on the number of top Texas high school students automatically admitted to the university, dropping the threshold from 6% to 5%.

Dale Price, the Founder and CEO of Access College America, spoke with KXAN’s Mike Rush about the reasoning behind this change and potential impact on future UT Austin applicants.

Austin tightens automatic admission threshold to 5% of Texas’ top high schoolers" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy,