So you like that Caslen has made us one of the last destinations where any college coach would want to work? This is precisely the point his antics in the press have brought us to. If those were calculated moves, we need to be more worried than I thought. No thinking person, let alone a calculating one would have made those moves.
Maybe, maybe, West Point follows some of the academic requirements required for certification that other schools do, but that's where it stops.
A little USC West Point comparison:
- All of WPs operational finances come through the Military. USC receives very small percentage of operation funds from the State
- 74% of their faculty are active military.
- Every West Point Cadet receives full tuition and a $10,000 stipend. About 63% of Freshmen at USC receive $2,849 in scholarship money. Upperclassmen receive slightly less.
- West Point offers 36 academic majors which are heavily skewed toward STEM fields. There are 15 minor areas of study. USC is an accredited Research University with thousands of course offerings and hundreds of majors.
- Every West Point Cadet is recommended for enrollment by their local Congressman/Woman.Their entire student body is filled with top tier students. The Student body average GPA is 3.73. USC has a standard rolling admissions process geared toward recruiting out of state students, serving the needs of the State of South Carolina, and meeting diversity standards set by the Board of Trustees. I couldn't find the average GPA for the student body, but you can stay enrolled as long as you maintain a 2.0.
How can you say "West Point is a public university, just like USC?