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[quote=Anonymous]Yeah, but Fleming, the only faculty member they interview/quote has an axe to grind with the Academy so isn't exactly a neutral party. He's got a bee in his bonnet about how the academy admits too many minority applicants of low quality, has spoken extensively to the press about that, sued the university, settled, etc. There may or may not be merit to his claims but it's not as if the journalist spoke with a disinterested observer, as it were. (I think mostly there's not too much merit to his complaints as divergence in student quality is mostly due, I reckon, to the need for students to get recomendations from their member of congress. This ensures geographic diversity but means, in effect, that students are mostly only competing against applicants from their Congressional district. Locally, this means, if you're competing against kids from, say, Van Hollen's district, in MD, it's really tough but no so much if you're applying from DC where Holmes Norton's office puts out requests soliticting applications to the academies.) [/quote]

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