I'm no brain surgeon (mother of candidate; please note ) but isn't this graph just showing the data on who got appointed and the number of candidates (not applications!) is significantly lower in the AA catagory as opposed to CA candidates....just as in all categories the Female candidates are much lower than male? Wouldn't that be a reason for this percentage being so high? I don't think we can even guess from this chart what guiedlines the admissions staff go by in terms of diversification.
THe more I read and learn from this forum, the more I can see how the Admissions staff have a truly difficult job. I'm not sucking up here.....nobody knows who I am . And if they have to use WP's in one's application, we'd have to know how many points one gets for ethnicity to criticize. I cannot imagine that it would be a lot.....just saying.
I totally agree. I really wish that the entire process was a blind process, but unfortunately that's not the reality of the situation.
But on chart for 2014 the no. for Female AA that are fully qualified was 30 and 29 were offered an appointment.....while no. of CA fully qualified was 327 and 201 were appointed. I cannot see any nicky-hokey stuff here. I would think the %'s would be higher when you have a lot less applicants.,,,,,although like I said I'm not a brain surgeon w/stats.
And not that it should matter but I am a Conservative and caucasian; just saying.
While you're correct on the fact we don't know the exact numbers in terms of how race plays into the WP score, when 100% of all African-American Females are accepted something doesn't smell right.
Silly. A primer in statistical analysis might be a good place to start, but that's not the issue in that response. A lb. of Mortons salt might be useful.
You might be missing the most important row in each of these yearly admission data charts. Using the 2014 Data as an example, look at the row labeled % of Applicants Offered, only 4% of AA Females are offered an appointment while the other categories are in the 8 to 12% range. So if only 100 AA Females and only 100 CA Males submitted applications, only 4 AA Females and 8 CA Males would make it through the entire process to receive an appointment.
Excellent point and another sad example of some misplaced priorities at the USNA.You can argue statistics, but when we chose leaders based off of anything other than they're professionalism, dedication, work-ethic, character and demonstrated leadership there's a serious problem.