Appointments are usually from a Congressional District where interviews are held by a Congressman. I grew up with the local West Point recruiter for Hampton and Newport News VA as a neighbor. Col. Farnsworth was an Academy grad. Carson admits he got into college on AA. AA is not West point types grades. Yes Carson did well after he got it. He is lying about WP.
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Just because an inner city black got into Yale or Harvard on AA doesn’t mean he didn’t have exceptional grades.
It meant he needed Harvard/Yale to ignore that his daddy wasn’t rich or an alumni. H/Y are probably the most nepotistic universities in the nation in terms of entry.
What bothers me most about your post is not that you confused "appointment" and "nomination" (Gen. Westmoreland could offer a nomination, but not an outright appointment), but rather that you assume everyone offered an AA advantage is inferior.
It's not a valid assumption. I know of several specific cases of AA-motivated job offers (likely quota-based) that were made to minorities that were highly qualified. In fact that's one of my arguments against AA: that it automatically renders suspect the qualifications of anyone of that minority that gets a position targeted for AA recruitment. So to those of a given minority that are highly qualified, the AA advantage is unnecessary and stigmatizing.
As for "lying about WP" he seems to have confused "scholarship" and "nomination" without a full accounting of the appointment process, but it's understandable. He was 17 and that's the way he remembers it. But you claim your West Point recruiter, Colonel rank, academy-grad neighbor educated you on the process, yet you mistake "nomination" and "appointment". So by the same standard you too must be a liar.
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"Before you can be considered for appointment to the United States Air Force Academy, you must obtain a nomination. A nomination does not guarantee appointment to the Academy, however, no appointment can be offered without one."
Academyadmissions.com