<p>All this means is that UCSC is trying to save money.</p>
<p>Cliffs of the article…</p>
<p>-UCLA, UCB, and UCSC all use the same general holistic approach to admission (ie, they give your application a score on a similar platform across UCLA/UCB/UCSC)
-In an effort to save time, if UCSC applicants also aplied to UCLA or UCB, they will use the score that those schools scored the applicant at for their own admissions review so that they do not have to score the application themselves</p>