Anchor worries
theraven, if you have strong study skills and self-discipline when it comes to procrastination and prioritization of many competing demands, you will be just fine. USNA assumes you have what it takes to make it. Academics is just one part of the equation. Sure, there are going to be those classmates who seem to float blissfully through every course with nary a B in sight. If you're not one of them, that's fine, you just put your head down and ensure you are sat on all fronts and enjoy the ride, bumps and all.
And, many officers have done just fine, in fact, more than fine, from the "lower registers" of the class. Husband had a classmate who was perilously close to being the anchor -- made 4 stars and had a superb career. There are many similar cases.
We have also had 2 sponsor mids who graduated in the single digits in class rank with a shining USNA academic career. One, with an aero engineering degree, was dropped out of flight school with horrendous grades, did fine with the books but just couldn't adjust to making decisions in the air. The other one focused too much on studying for his warfare qual (loved those books!) and neglected his leadership responsibilities with his division because he got impatient with people who didn't get stuff as fast as he did. His fitness report reflected his poor performance compared with his peers.
The roommate of the aero engineer, above, was in the top half of the class, just a "regular mid," found his stride at flight school, aced every hop the first time, and got his pick of pipeline.
Besides, the anchor rakes in some serious bucks at graduation!
Sorry, didn't mean to unravel us from the diversity topic. That's a good thing to see...