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The UC system must keep statistics on the fail rate of lesser qualified entrants. I suspect it correlates well.

My son started this year at UCSD in engineering and was shocked at how many really smart people there were there.
He was pretty much accustomed to being a big fish at his high school. After the initial shock, he decided he likes being around smart people.

He’s having a great time and doing really well.

I'm a 1976 Revelle graduate. It's a very different world once you land in the classroom. It's cut throat competition. The folks who want to go to med school aren't giving an inch to be "fair". The profs are dealing with lectures of 300 to 500 students. The grad student/TAs have 30+ in a section. There is little coddling of poor performers. The bottom feeders who get admitted will be toast in one or two quarters.

During the time I was at UCSD, the bottom 5% was "reserved" for the affirmative action admissions. Statistically, 85% of those students dropped out before graduation. It was a waste of taxpayer money. It was a waste of the time and money of the under qualified students. It was an injustice to the 5% of qualified students who were excluded to make room for the unqualified applicants.