nzpete
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...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...
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.