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There was a 5th example:

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Verbal 630
Math 630
Combined 1260

_they were admitted_.

and here’s how an experienced admissions reader rated this applicant (this is not the opinion of UC Berkeley admissions committee):

“Nice scores, good grades except for a weakness in math. Very active in student government and worked a fairly heavy load to help her mother. I almost don’t have to read her essay to say that we should admit, but when I read her essay, she’s a no-brainer. Admit. She’ll excel here.”

EXCERPT FROM APPLICATION ESSAY:

“… As progressive as one might believe Berkeley High School to be, sitting in the literal shadow of the University of California at Berkeley, the going is tough and lonely in advanced classes as an academically talented African American female. Often in classes I feel the personal challenge of having to be one step ahead, one-degree smarter and more thoroughly prepared than do my classmates. This challenge has never hindered me in expressing my opinions and I have become expert at presenting them in a way that they are heard, considered, respected and absorbed.

“My participation this fall in Advanced Placement Patterns in Black Literature has presented a refreshing forum for me to assert my opinions based on my life experiences. The class has only four students of color. As we discussed Ellison’s Invisible Man and explored the question “Why read Baldwin?” we have been challenged to rethink our opinions and attitudes. The dynamics of the class have been interesting and we have learned as much from each other as we have from our instructor. The literature has provoked discussions about racial prejudice, attitudes, and stereotypes. My African American voice carried a different weight in this course. As progressive as my peers believe they are, they are realizing they have, to a degree, understandably intellectualized the struggle of the African American in America. They have been moved to hear my first hand experiences of being followed in stores by security as a potential shoplifter, or coming home to find racial epithets spray painted on the walls inside my house.

“For being only seventeen years old, my life has proved fairly challenging. I live with my mother and younger sister. My father has refused to be a part of our lives since my parents divorced when I was four. My sister lost her hearing when she was a baby and because of this I have a more sensitive perspective concerning those who are physically challenged and I have become a fairly proficient signer. My personal and family situation has contributed to molding my character. They have made me stronger, more sensitive, mature and independent….”

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Did you catch the key phrase that helped get this negress into Berkeley?

“…coming home to find racial epithets spray painted on the walls inside my house.”

Yes, folks, even in the wacky ultra-liberal Bay Area (where she’s from) there are ‘neo-Nazis’ straight out of casting perpetrating ‘hate’ by breaking in and spray painting the walls of African-‘Americans’ with ‘epithets.’ Or, in the world as it really exists, even an ‘advanced’ negress like this will claim to have been victimized by omnipresent ‘racism’ in order to get one up on whitey (as here where she is admitted to UC Berkeley ahead of obviously more qualified white males).

But one day, listening to “We Shall Overcome” while reading an unassigned biography of Helen Keller, I decided I must persevere, and took up River Dancing.