It's not new, but it was not news until the sadistic left decided to slime Carson. I have had several high school students intern during the school year or during the summer with me, and I have recommended a few for USNA/USMA/USAFA, so I read everything I could find before writing those letters of recommendation. I'm confident that the word has been on USMA materials for more than a decade. Note: Once this latest fuss started, I was unable to find where I read it on my own, but someone else on FR found the link and posted it here. I dismissed the word "scholarship" as awkward and imprecise phrasing, perhaps a word being used only because it had poll-tested well.
We all know what a West Point admission means (except for liberals who are offended at the idea of a black man refusing to march in lockstep with the liberal agenda of the party that has always believed they owned all black Americans), so no one worried about that detail. Until now.
“for more than a decade.”
To me, that’s new.