West Point Admissions & Data Insights
In our recent post “Call for Sunlight…”, we outlined which groups went into which Army branches to put context around USMA’s stated need for preferences in admissions. Finding that certain minority groups were less represented in non-combat arms than in combat arms, we also speculated that one driver of the low number of minorities in … Read more
“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” Brandeis, L. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously wrote in his 1913 article “What Publicity Can Do” that “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants,” discussed here and often cited by proponents of transparency in government. He was referring, apparently, to “the wickedness of people shielding … Read more
Prompted by some reader questions, we have continued analyzing the errors, earlier identified in the USMA-supplied data in our 2020 post West Point Is Not Selective, in depth. Here are additional findings to supplement the notes in About the Data. The purpose of these findings is to inform the reader about the source material of … Read more