https://students.ucsd.edu/academics/advising/majors-minors/selective.html
Agree or disagree, it is generally ill advised to apply to any UC and try to game the system by selecting a less “impacted” major hoping to change later into a selective/impacted major. Historically the change is very difficult if not impossible. Now UCSD just spelled out a point system for those people who screams for “disclosure” and “transparency.”
Personally I would have just defaulted back to a “holistic review” and left it at that. But I suspect the powers to be at UCSD doesn’t care this is going to piss off many many people, especially the rich ones.