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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]
Honor Code Monument at West Point. In the United States, a Cadet Honor Code is a system of ethics or code of conduct applying to cadets studying at military academies.These codes exist at the federal service academies, such as the United States Military Academy and the United States Air Force Academy and at the senior military colleges, as well as other military schools and colleges.
All cadets and midshipmen receive taxable pay at a rate of 35% of an O-1 under two years of service (which can be used to pay for textbooks and uniforms), free room and board, and pay no tuition or fees, with the exception of USMMA who receive taxable pay at US$1,217.10 a month only during their required 300+ days at sea during their four-year ...
A federal appeals court on Monday declined to block the U.S. Military Academy at West Point from considering race as a factor in admissions decisions, as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs whether to ...
West Point is a prestigious military service academy in New York state that educates cadets for commissioning into the U.S. Army. Students for Fair Admissions said that West Point's application ...
The justices on Friday rejected an emergency appeal seeking to force a change in the admissions process at West Point. The military academy had been explicitly left out of the court’s decision ...
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. Nashville, TN: Turner Publishing Co. ISBN 978-1-59652-416-3. West Point: Legend on the Hudson. Montgomery, NY: Poughkeepsie Journal/Walden Printing. 2003.
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".