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<p>The UC holistic review process is designed for different goals. It is rather obvious that some of the goals are scalability and repeatability. The latter means that if the process were rerun on the same applicant pool, the result should be almost the same (though in any holistic process like this, there are bound to be some differences at the borderline), unlike the commonly held view that if a small private school reran its holistic admissions process, much of the admit class would be different.</p>
<p>“Holistic” does not mean that the process appears random or non-repeatable, or that (for example) an admissions reader admits or rejects an applicant from a certain city because the admissions reader visited that city and liked or did not like it.</p>
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<p>Pretty sure that all of them that rely on the Berkeley system have a tie breaker system when the group of applicants at a given reading score is too large to fill the rest of the admission spots (e.g. 200 at that score to fill the last 100 spots after admitting all of the applicants with better reading scores.).</p>