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I would agree with you if the email just included the wording, *we're worth the wait*.
The problem is email #3 went significantly beyond that by, as lextalionis puts it, "...requesting that the recipient NOT take certain action that they otherwise may have very well taken. That is, swept up by the excitement of being accepted by UCLA, for example, and convinced they had no shot of getting into Cal, many students would have contacted UCLA with an enthusiastic, "Yes!" and accepted invites to local "Bruin Days" before they filled up, and contacted the Financial Aid Office to start negotiating, etc. Instead, those students took Cal at their word and didn't reply to UCLA or other UCs until they heard from Cal, only to be rejected."
I have a hard time believing that anyone who applied to Berkeley, especially Californians, would forget that they're waiting to hear from the top-ranked UC. A simple reminder of the admissions release date would have sufficed.
Sending an email with the misleading wording that email #3 contained was a major faux pas committed by Berkeley's admissions office that will live in infamy in admissions officers' lore.
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