<p>That would complicate thing quite a bit for your friend, wouldn’t it?
The assumption is for anyone to make it into this program, he/she ought to have been a very strong student, and yet the person can’t make the requirement. Not sure if this’d be a positive pr for the program to have people drop out like that. On the other hand, UCSD can potentially put on a spin that it’s the student who’s not up to it, or Caltech is too rigorous.</p>