West Point Admissions & Data Insights
We turn from our regular topic of documenting USMA’s racially-preferential admissions regime to another favorite subject: its athletic program. Specifically, whether the subsidizing of USMA’s inter-collegiate athletic program is supporting or undermining its purpose of producing the backbone of the Army officer corps. We don’t think the program is worth the cost. Below, we walk … Read more
According to PACER, the case “Students for Fair Admissions v. United States Military Academy at West Point et al” is settled as of 8/12/25. This was anticipated after Secretary of War Hegseth released his memo on MSA admissions, but took a while to come to pass. The SSFA announcement is here as is a copy … Read more
Recently we published a post with a message submitted to our site purportedly from LTG (Ret) Robert Caslen which was filled with disparaging language towards USMAData. We stated the letter was “ostensibly” from LTG Caslen, noted we couldn’t confirm its authenticity, and published it with our response, believing we had no reason to doubt its … Read more
On 09 May, Secretary of Defense Hegseth issued this memorandum on Service Academy admissions: This directs the Academies to “apply no consideration of race, ethnicity, or sex”, “offer admission based exclusively on merit” Bravo. Finally. The implementation remains to be seen, and we should keep an eye on the discretionary nominations, but this is a … Read more
Our October 2022 post “USMA Admissions Site Needs An Update” pointed out that the West Point admissions page https://westpoint.edu/admissions was using videos with cadets from 2017, posted in early 2019, for its promotions materials. We’re happy to report that the Admissions site has finally gotten an update. We’d like to think it was because of … Read more
The Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, LTG Steve Gilland, has issued a letter announcing the change of the Mission of West Point: Duty, Honor, Country is foundational to the United States Military Academy’s culture and will always remain our motto. It defines who we are as an institution and as … Read more
News item hits the wires: The group behind the lawsuits that led the Supreme Court to gut affirmative action at higher education institutions sued the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday, seeking to end the school’s race-conscious admissions policies… The group asked a federal judge to prohibit West Point from considering or knowing … Read more
It sounds like the military academies may get their chance to justify their race-based admissions practices. From Reuters: Aug 3 (Reuters) – The group that took its case against affirmative action in college admissions to the U.S. Supreme Court and won is seeking to end an exemption for military schools, the founder of Students for … Read more
We’ve been quite busy and other things have taken priority on posting. However, there have been a few events worth noting: New Data Request We filed another FOIA request last year with the West Point office. It included requests for meaningful data for applicants and classes of 2020-2026, including, among some other helpful information, demographic, … Read more
Back in January we wrote about the Army West Point Athletic Association’s (AWPAA) finances and business model. In this we noted that the AWPAA, while receiving massive government grants and other various subsidies and advantages of being at West Point, got a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan by July, 2020. The auditor reported that AWPAA … Read more