These rules apply only to students at UCSD who wish to switch majors into one of the selective majors. The four things that will get you a point in the scoring rubric are
3.0 GPA
California resident
Pell Grant
First generation student
And it’s explicitly stated in all other colleges that transfer to the Jacobs Engineering school from a non-engineering college will be met with a big fat NO.
Except when you’re part of the wink-wink “first generation” gang which is a proxy for illegal alien.
What’s fun is to go back and look at the people who built the UC’s, especially Irvine and SD. Blindingly White. You can see these pictures on the net in all sorts of videos and historical sites.
Does anyone think they spent that money and effort to hand it over to the offspring of Mexico? Or Asia, for that matter?