<p>I fail to see a slippery slope, and I continue with the argument pertaining to an academically-inclined person not being able to succeed. First off, who’s to say that they enjoy academics in the first place? Isn’t going and getting good grades for basically the express purpose of going to a good school? </p>
<p>A well rounded student will demonstrate not only the ability to handle coursework, however dry it may be, while also handling extracurriculars, some of which will be for the purpose of enjoyment as well (eg sports). </p>
<p>One can logically argue that some academically-inclined students actually enjoy study. That’s absolutely true. However, these are also the people that are largely using UCSD as a fallback and waiting on decisions from CIT/MIT. Does UCSD want to recruit such people? Obviously it does, however realistically the school really doesn’t have many incentives to lure them, and it’s likely to end up in a futile waste of an otherwise good spot for a prospective student, and an unnecessary increase of the minimum point total (I’m under the impression that they take an average)</p>