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I wonder. I actually think that if someone ask about the food at the Academy, somehow you would interject your dual track opinions into the conversation. Why do you feel that it is important to keep bring up your opinions when they have absolutely no bearing on the discussion at hand? It serves absolutely no purpose to those intended on obtaining information about attending USNA.</p>
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Prof Fleming is an English Prof who sat on a single admissions board almost a decade ago. He purchased nothing. The FOIA request was by Dave Quint and his erroneous conclusions were simply parroted by Feming. Again, I ask you, instead of blindly accepting this data, look at it closely. It is overall SAT stats for the Class of 2013, including NAPSters. We all know that the reason for NAPS is academic deficiency with low SATs being the prime indicator. Remove the NAPS SATs from the data and suddenly it is a non-story. Don’t take their word for it, do it. The whole thing was nothing but manipulation of ‘data’ to a false conclusion.</p>
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Yep, they went into historically underrepresented districts and recruited highly qualified candidates. The increase in applications really had nothing to do with this. Would you rather your taxpayer dollars go to further recruiting in NoVa for example, where highly qualified candidates are falling all over each other?</p>
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Of course. And does not dealing with substantially different populations demand substantially different approaches? Again, I ask you, since the College Board admits openly racially, ethnically, socioeconomic, and gender bias in relation to the SATs, how would you address it? Would ignoring it not be prejudiced? Again, a hypothetical question. We all know that the Academy maintains copious data. We all know that the sole purpose of the SATs is to determine probability of success during freshman year only. The College Board actually warns against any other attempted usage. What if, for example, USNA has determined that a black plebe performs exactly to the standards of a white plebe who scored 100 points higher on the SAT? How should it be addressed? Why do you continue to ignore this question?</p>
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This entire train of thought by Salamander and his ilk is totally beyond belief and amazingly arrogant. Pull out your Civics 101 book. The military is well insulated from the public. By design. They have no obligation whatsoever to respond to every perceived allegation by the public. They have a responsibility to their chain of command, a CoC, by the way, which has demanded an increased look at diversity. Congress also maintains oversight. They provide this oversight via the Board of Visitors. They have ‘blessed’ the USNA approach to the CoC requirement. USNA is doing their job. Therefore, I suggest that if you don’t like it, instead of continuously, at every perceived opportunity, harping at it on this forum, go to your personal CoC, your MOC, and have them do something about it. Allow me to suggest however that your letter might be of more substance if you actually formulate your own thoughts rather than just state that Fleming says so.</p>
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Flemings accusations are that of illegial activities. USNA states inequivocally that they are following the letter of the law. The Board of Visitors confirms this. Again, one more time. Why is Fleming ‘facts’ and why is the Academy’s position ‘shilling’?</p>