<p>@CAcoll:</p>
<p>It basically means that UCSC made a big mistake on their part and ended up admitting UCB/UCLA material students. Typically, students who are admitted to UCLA/UCB won’t attend UCSC. So this year, Ms. Sun expects the vast majority of UCSC admitted students to attend UCB/UCLA (because they will presumably be accepted there as well), thus leaving hundreds/possibly thousands of free seats open at UCSC. In other words, UCSC reviewed their applicants as tough as UCB/UCLA would have reviewed them and so the actual UCSC level applicants were rejected. Don’t make false assumptions like these though:</p>
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<li>Getting accepted to UCSC does not guarantee acceptance to UCB/UCLA. UCSC’s cutoff mark is probably way lower than UCB/UCLA’s cutoff mark. An applicant may have made UCSC’s cutoff mark but failed to reach UCB/UCLA’s cutoff mark.</li>
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<p>However, it does seem to me that people who were rejected at UCSC have almost no chance at making UCB/UCLA. Correct me if I’m wrong.</p>