Re-read the article and the comments - Prof Fleming suggests, and many others opined that the minority candidates can't succeed at the Academy.
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No school is doing anyone a favor by letting them in when they cannot succeed
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As Prof. Fleming points out in his article, attrition rates are higher among minorities.
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The numbers reflected in this article prove those statement to be false.
You work in higher education. You should realize that graduation rates in the 77% - 86% range for most colleges is very good. Add the academy factor and the fact that many of these kids come from disadvantaged backgrounds and it proves that minorities are succeeding.
Perhaps you want to claim that academics at the Naval Academy has been "dumbed down" allowing them to graduate but that doesn't appear to be the case either.
The Naval Academy has the highest graduation rate of all the Service Academies, yet Midshipmen often post on these boards that they have the toughest academics. That exchange students from other academies see their GPAs lowered when they go to USNA.
There are inconsistencies here that are difficult to reconcile.