<p>Gosh this has been made for some fun reading… I thought I would liven things up a bit…Calm down people!</p>
<p>When I looked at the stats for the class of 2010 I just wanted to see if my kids SAT’s and activities were on par with the class… others wanted to dwell on how many white boys were admitted vs how many applied to evaluate their chances…
Oh yea then there were all those comments on kids from single parent households etc… I just got the feeling that some of you don’t think kids from lower socio-economic backgrounds deserve a spot. </p>
<p>Funny thing is… I agree with Momof1 and Z… yep imagine that… </p>
<p>You misunderstand Z, but the academies are mostly full of white males… why do you think parents have a hard time recognizing their sons in the pictures??? </p>
<p>Believe it or not there is still an attitude that a female (however well deserved) is taking the place of a well deserving male. </p>
<p>I have read many posts on this forum by parents who could not understand why their overacheiving son with the 1600 SAT and an 8 pages resume didn’t make the cut into an academy…well Momof1 you have the answer… It isn’t all about the numbers. </p>
<p>I do wish we could get away from the how many males/females, white, hispanics, blacks are admitted. That is not likely to happen in the near future… Over 1/2 of all college freshman are women yet the academies only enroll 10-15% women…When the day comes that 1/2 of applicants are women then reporting the male/female ratio will be no big deal.<br>
You all should not concentrate on the “numbers” but on getting well deserved qualified future leaders… </p>
<p>For those of you who disagree that diversity is good… I am thinking that the military is not for you. I still think that being born a white male give any applicant the best shot at admissions.</p>
<p>Z… you are the one who gave my child hope when you said it is very possible a “regular” kid could get in… you probably don’t remember that question I posted a couple of weeks ago… the thread was deleted… don’t know why but it was about how to get an LOA… </p>
<p>I don’t really want to publish my autobiography on here but I will tell you this … I was an Air Force brat whose father flew 185 combat missions in Vietnam… so don’t any of you question my understanding of the military or my patriotism. Oh and I fly the American flag every day.</p>
<p>I really am not the “bleeding heart liberal” you all assumed I was.</p>