> If you graduate in the top 10 percent of your class, then you are guaranteed admission to all state funded universities.

UC is the more elite of two separate state funded university systems in CA, but it has a similar guarantee (but not campus-of-choice), that evaluates earlier (counts only 10th and 11th grade) and has a 9% cutoff for the “in your class” guarantee, which is called “Eligibility in Local Context”.

https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...

They also guarantee admission to the top 9% statewide, even if they aren't top 9% of class.

https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...

California State University, the larger state-funded system, has a process called “redirection” which functions as a kind of admission guarantee for qualified California residents who are applying as first-time freshman or certain transfer statuses, but I can’t easily find clear documentation of the cutoff (which may just be the minimum CSU eligibility cutoffs), but in any case is broader than UCs.

I'm not convinced that Texas is more progressive here. (Even before considering the sibling comments that indicate that the actual current guarantee is less than the top 10%.)