<p>To clear a few things up, I would like to add some information.</p>
<p>So far, the only comprehensive review point systems that have been made somewhat public to fully public are UC Davis's and UC San Diego's. These "comprehensive reviews" are basically a guideline on what application information each school takes into account when dealing with their admissions. </p>
<p>The way schools deal with cutoff points (if there are any) is based on how much space the university has, including the sub-schools in the university. The UCs will figure out how much space they have in a certain area and estimate how many students will accept their acceptances if an X number of acceptances are given. With that information, they will basically count how many students they want to accept and make that the "cutoff" point. In a sense, it's not exactly a cutoff point set before admissions, but one after all the applications have been reviewed and scored.</p>
<p>Although UCI has not publicized any sort of point system, I can only imagine there is one. My uncle is a researcher at a UC (Riverside or Irvine...he has jumped around so I don't know what's going on). He made a few calls to the people he knew in admissions for his son when admissions came around for his son and found off cutoff points for several UCs. Sad to say, I don't remember his son telling me any numbers for Irvine. In addition, I got a tip from someone who worked in admissions in Berkeley years ago and she told me that all the UCs basically have a point system somewhere in there to handle admissions and compare students to other students. Each school just has different guidelines and point distributions to their sections. However, she has been out of admissions for awhile so I can't fully trust that. I still personally believe that every UC uses a point system with each school most likely varying by a lot. Some of the UCs could have more broad admissions guidelines allowing for a lot more subjectivity than others. You never know.</p>
<p>Oh yea for people wondering what are some of the student numbers in certain schools/majors, UC Irvine has a nifty statistics website.</p>