According to his first “autobiography” he was a continuously whacked out drunk druggie for his entire junior and senior years of prep school, not exactly conductive to either making the good grades and/or SAT scores that would enable him to get into a prestige university like Occidental. Nevertheless, he did it. We’ve got to see all of his academic records to understand why.
Was mom still working with SS records when Berry turned 18? Reckon he went to college on some other kids ID that either died soon after getting out or chose not to go to college?