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Sledge said:
...you can see in the table on page 19, a qualified applicant who is black is offered admission, on average, in greater than 90% of the the cases. Hispanics offered at a slightly lower rate, but still much higher than whites. There are also a couple of power points within this pdf. link. The first powerpoint within has a page - number 49 of the pdf- showing the "goals" through the class of 2016...
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Thanks for that. Interestingly, the "goals" for minorities are lower than U.S. demographic percentages in that chart.
As for appointment opportunities, I still would not equate the higher percentages with a greater chance for admission nationwide. I say that because the numbers of qualified blacks, for example, are a much smaller pool and an appointment is going to represent a higher percentage per individual. Again, perhaps the assumption is that those minorities that apply are simply a highly qualified candidate.
Regardless of one's position, I would hope that the service academies are attempting to recruit minorities with solid qualifications and are competitive on the whole. In other words, offering opportunities to those quality minorities that would have otherwise gone to other prestigious colleges and universities because they had not considered a service academy for one reason or another. Certainly, one cannot argue that minorities are represented at the USMA in numbers similar to nationwide demographics. That being the case, a white male has the same basic chance of being offered an appointment as, say, a hispanic male and by the numbers listed, perhaps a slightly better one.
 
Lots of interesting information in this thread and so many different variables...I agree qualified females and minorities have higher percentage of acceptance within their group due to their lower application numbers. But one could also state that non- minority males are 31% of the US population and while USMA does not have a goal/floor for this subgroup...in reality they probably make up 60-65% of a class. Just be the best candidate you can be....
 
When you are the white male (or mom of the white male) who isn't selected, it seems that it's all stacked against you. You are dealt certain cards in life: you are a poor card player if you do not play the ones in your hand. Sometimes you have to work hard to acquire new cards. The first go round, my DS had few trumps in his hand. He was 3Q, but was too far down the NWL. He reapplied and worked on acquiring additional cards: ROTC, stellar college grades, etc. Had his original cards been better (higher HS grades, higher SAT, more sports, more letters, more leadership, more, more, more), he might not have had to play another hand. Sometimes when you want something, you have to really work for it. It does no good to complain about cards you don't have and/or cannot change.
 
No; that information isn't released. However, you can certainly ask your RC how you look. Ours was very honest last year and said he was a strong candidate, but might not be ranked high enough (he wasn't). He said from the get-go that my DS looked good as a re-applicant. Most students take 4.5-5 years to finish college these days (especially engineering majors). What is the big deal about reapplying? So many say that West Point is their dream, yet they try once and they're done with it. Sometimes dreams are deferred--ask Langston Hughes.
 
I heard of a guy who did poorly in HS and he went on to go to college then the army and got a service related acceptance a few years later. At first I thought I could not go to WP because my poor subscores on the ACT, but I learned it wasn't that in was bad at them it was just that my teachers never fully taught the material or than I hadn't retained it. I studied for hours a day just on the ACT and shot my subscore up nearly 12 points.


2019 WestPoint class appointee

Recipient of 4 year army rotc scholarship.
 
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