In 1997, the Texas legislature instituted the Top Ten Percent Law granting students in the top ten percent of their class automatic admission to any state university.

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But the Home Office said admission to the UK would not be automatic if the child had an interim adoption order, such as the one granted to the Kilshaws in Arkansas last month.

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