<p>This is what I understood from it:
This only applies if you applied to either UCLA or UCB AND to UCSC
1)UCLA/UCB will give you a score
2) UCSC will use that score to decide your admissions
3) UCSC will ONLY read apps that did NOT have a UCLA/UCB score (meaning you did not apply to these two)
4) Therefore, it makes sense that some people were not admitted to UCSC (despite competitive scores) b/ UCLA/UCB scores harsher that the other UC’s.</p>
<p>I got in UCSC so IMO, UCLA/UCB gave me a relatively good/okay score</p>
<p>UCSC is doing this to save time and money. It will not re-read an app that has already been scored by UCLA/UCB. Instead, it will simply transfer those scores and admit/reject based them. </p>
<p>make sense?</p>