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The admissions process to the U.S. service academies is an extensive and very competitive process. The Military Academy, the Naval Academy, and the Air Force Academy all require an applicant to submit an online file and proceed through pre-candidate qualification before an application is provided.
Admission to West Point is selective: 7.74% of applicants were admitted (total of 1232) to the Class of 2024. [136] Candidates may have previous college experience, but they may not transfer, meaning that regardless of previous college credit, they enter the academy as a fourth class cadet and undergo the entire four-year program. [137]
The U.S. Justice Department in court filings has said that West Point is a "vital pipeline to the officer corps" and that its race-conscious admissions practices help the Army achieve its "mission ...
A lawyer for Students for Fair Admissions, a non-profit founded by affirmative action foe Edward Blum, told U.S. District Judge Philip Halpern in White Plains, New York, that a West Point policy ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to block the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the prestigious Army school, from considering race as a factor in admissions decisions while a legal ...
The United States Military Academy Preparatory School (USMAPS) is a preparatory school for the United States Military Academy (USMA). Located in West Point, New York since 2011, its mission is "to provide academic, military and physical instruction in a moral-ethical military environment to prepare and motivate candidates for success at the United States Military Academy".
West Point was accused in a federal lawsuit Tuesday of improperly using race and ethnicity as factors in admissions by the same group behind the legal challenge that resulted in the U.S. Supreme ...
Historic Structures Inventory United States Military Academy West Point, NY Vol 2. Washington, DC: National Park Service. Miller, Rod (2002). The Campus Guide: West Point US Military Academy. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1-56898-294-1. Palka, Eugene; Malinowski, Jon (2008). Historic West Point Photographs.