...at least as frosh. They hold a lot of spots for "the top 10%" of each Texas high school...no matter how awful the high school is. There are a lot of smart 11 percenters (who would be valedictorians at the lesser schools) who can't get in as frosh to the top state schools in Texas. It is getting like Maryland, where people don't start at the flagship school, but try to finish there.
Not sure how an out of state guy like Rittenhouse would fair. I wonder if he had in state residency.