UT is moving to 5% next year I believe.
Still, for in-state students, they accept about 40% of those who apply. That’s not bad for a flagship institution, where about 10,000 new students enroll every year in a state with 31 million people, of which around 2.8 million are 18-24 year olds, and 775,000 are in college of some sort (two year or four or grad). I’m sure the argument will or can be made that students who don’t think they have a chance won’t even bother applying.
And if we want to go down the road on the demographics of the state and representation, whites are not even the largest group anymore. UT Austin will look far different 10 years from now, as will aggy and other schools.
We are in an unfortunate situation where we need a major boost for the other branches in the UT (and aggy) and we needed it years ago, and we have lagged behind in doing that while the state grew extremely fast, although there are efforts being made. At the same time we have a bit of a war on education, learning in general, science, etc. being conducted by people who can influence those university systems.