这样的回复是不是学校是强committe制，没有必要套磁？

发邮件几天后收到了这样的回复“Thanks for the detailed introduction. Your experience matches some of our project directions--we do value hands-on experiences and software/hardware hacking capabilities a lot. At this point I cannot guarantee you an RA position yet. There are 3000 graduate applicants every year for the ECE department at UCSD. PhD application is even tougher than MS applications. I encourage you to send in your applications. Once you get admission, we can have a further discussion. ”中间那句怎么有点劝退的感觉，但是后面貌似教授也表达出了在招生问题上貌似没有太多权力的意思？

UCSD可能是强committee：http://www.1point3acres.com/bbs/thread-48836-1-1.html

UC Berkeley好像也是强committee，EECS faculty listing有些教授们的lab主页，直接写了“不要联系我，在你录取之前我无法做任何事，为了公平起见我不会回复任何关于PhD申请的信息。” 但有些教授也写了 feel free to contact me，所以要是教授很委婉的说没法决定要不要你之类的，要不是对你抱有观望态度，要不就是真没‘一票录取’的权利，所以还是摊开了聊。