. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Race Soc Probl. 2012 Apr;4(1):57–67. doi: 10.1007/s12552-012-9065-7

Table 3.

Admission and Enrollment Rates, and Share Admitted and Enrolled at UT-Austin and Texas A&M across Three Admission Regimes

	Admitted						Yield
	UT-Austin			Texas A&M University			UT-Austin			Texas A&M University
	(Admitted / Applicants) × 100						(Enrolled / Admitted) × 100
Group	Affirm. Action (‘90-‘96)	No Policy (1997)	Top Ten Percent (’98-’03)	Affirm. Action (‘92-‘96)	No Policy (1997)	Top Ten Percent (‘98-‘02)	Affirm. Action (‘90-‘96)	No Policy (1997)	Top Ten Percent (‘98-‘03)	Affirm. Action (‘92-‘96)	No Policy (1997)	Top Ten Percent (‘98-‘02)

Whites	71.7	83.2	71.4	73.9	79.9	74.0	59.1	64.0	61.7	61.8	57.4	64.6
Hispanics	74.9	75.4	67.7	86.2	76.2	70.8	54.5	64.3	60.2	50.3	46.5	51.7

	Composition of Admittees (%)						Composition of Enrollees (%)

Whites	.65.1	65.6	61.3	73.0	74.9	76.6	66.4	66.8	62.3	78.2	80.5	82.2
Hispanics	15.9	12.4	14.5	14.4	11.2	10.9	15.0	12.7	14.4	12.5	9.8	9.4
Totals	81.0	78.0	75.8	87.4	86.1	87.5	81.4	79.5	76.7	90.7	90.3	91.6

Note: Number of observations is 169,547 and 140,472 for UT-Austin and TAMU, respectively. Composition of admittees is calculated as group specific admits / total admits. Similarly, composition of enrollees is calculated as group specific enrollees / total enrollees.