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{:4_105:}，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？{:4_99:}