My son had been interested in attending AFA or West Point since he was 10 years old. But in his sophomore year in high school he tore his ACL in lacrosse.
We kept up with his goal. At first Academy Representatives said the repaired ACL injury was not disqualifying. Then as things got more involved, they said it was disqualifying.
With further investigation, a Representative said to us, in person, that it isn’t disqualifying if you are a minority, but since the pool is too large for white males, it would be disqualifying for him.
That shut things down for him in a hurry.
He is now a senior and plays hockey at a top 30 university.
And never looked back.
Hopwood v. Texas 1996. The University of Texas Austin was sued because qualified white students weren’t being admitted to the Law Dept. but unqualified blacks were.
In 2010, in a related state law, the top gpa 10% of the state’s graduating high school students had automatic admission to any public state college they wished. But, oh nooooo! UT couldn’t have that because.... get this.... the univ. president said that wouldn’t allow for him to fill the 100 player roster on the Longhorn football team. Yeah, makes no sense how out of 52,000 students, some of the incoming smart white freshmen would completely shut down football or at least cut out the black players who didn’t make top grades in high school. Anyway, it went to the legislature (I worked the legislators hard on this) and.... again, get this.... UT got a compromise that they only had to accept the top 8% of high schoolers but all other state universities still had to accept the top 10% when all this was ***solely*** UT’s fault back during Hopwood when they discriminated against qualified white students.
UT is still discriminating against white students. Despite placing 2nd and 3rd in the state at UIL two years and graduating 3rd in HS, our kid couldn’t get any scholarships but the randomly selected dorm roommate from Mexico got a full 4 year ride. UT also states in their dept. programs minorities get special perks.