Also, if your child receives that distinction, it means that if your child isn’t accepted into one of his or her UC selections, then he is eligible to be admitted to an alternate UC campus. Right now, that campus is Merced. Your child doesn’t get to pick and choose where he goes. It’s wherever there is space.
The letter, for our kids, came from their local high school, in the mail, telling them that they had received the “eligibility in the local context” distinction. The high school provides that data and information to the State.