T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X A S A T A R L I N G T O N
Wednesday
September 22, 2010
Volume 92, No.
16
www.
theshorthorn.
com
Since 1919
BY SARAH LUTZ
The Shorthorn senior staff
Nadia Siddiqi applied to go
to school at UT-Austin during
her senior...
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T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X A S A T A R L I N G T O N
Wednesday
September 22, 2010
Volume 92, No.
16
www.
theshorthorn.
com
Since 1919
BY SARAH LUTZ
The Shorthorn senior staff
Nadia Siddiqi applied to go
to school at UT-Austin during
her senior year of high school,
along with 31,362 students
in 2009.
She and more than
17,000 others learned they
needed higher marks.
Then, she found a home
at UTA through the Coordinated Admission Program,
which gives students who
maintain a 3.
2 grade-point
average, take state-mandated
core classes and accumulate
30 credit hours at a sister university admission to UT.
She
stressed her way though the
year, had a 3.
7 GPA at the end,
and decided to stay.
Siddiqi got caught up in
campus life, and couldn’t
make herself leave.
“When I got involved I just
didn’t want to go,” she said.
“I
met so many people, I didn’t
want to go through it again.
”
Each year between 200
and 300 students, like Siddiqi, enroll in UTA planning
to leave, and each year
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