West Point Admissions & Data Insights
R-day for the class of 2030 was yesterday, Monday June 29th. Congratulations to all the New Cadets and good luck! Unfortunately, West Point appears to have disregarded Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s guidance on May 09, 2025, to use exclusively merit-based admissions. Most Football Players Attended USMAPS R-day is an exciting event. There were many … Read more
With the Class of 2030’s R-Day today (June 29th, 2026), West Point now knows perfectly who was an applicant, who received, offers, who received nominations, who accepted offers, and who showed up. Therefore it is now perfectly positioned to share the data demonstrating that it has met Secretary of War Hegseth’s direction to use merit-based … Read more
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stipulated an athletics admissions exception for West Point and other Service Academies. In directing merit-based admissions, he wrote that merit-based scores may “give weight” to “unique athletic talent.” This is bad and the language should be rescinded. DEI advocates and/or athletics stakeholders will exploit this particular call-out as an exception … Read more
The Class of 2029 has started at West Point. And so kicks off admissions activities for the class of 2030. Recently we noted that the Secretary of Defense issued a memorandum directing the Secretaries of the Military Departments to “certify within 30 days that, for purposes of the 2026 MSA admissions cycle, as well as … 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
A reader was able to get a data update on West Point Whole Candidate Scores (WCS) through a FOIA request. Here we use this data to demonstrate that West Point admissions used racial preferences to admit candidates. We gathered that West Point was not very helpful in the request, but eventually and begrudgingly complied and … Read more
We track the SFFA vs West Point and similar cases, like the recent case involving the Naval Academy’s admissions. Since the case is still in progress, it’s interesting to try to read the tea leaves on the strength of each side’s case and how the court will rule. We of course think that West Point’s … Read more
Yes, we’re focused on the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. But the diversity and standards problems afflicting West Point, currently in litigation with Students for Fair Admissions, are also the problems afflicting Annapolis. So we pay attention when others, including CDR Salamander , write about the Navy. And today we learned about an exceptional … Read more
A reader alerted us to the recent-ish (Nov ’24) FOIA lawsuit that Judicial Watch filed against West Point: We tried to go to the source and look at the web-page: But alas, the URL “https://www.westpoint.edu/about/west-point-staff/office-of-diversity” just redirected to the Military Academy leadership page. Hilariously, the URL “https://www.westpoint.edu/about/office-of-engagement-and-retention” for the engagement and retention page also redirects … Read more