Students for Fair Admissions

2200 Wilson Blvd. #17

Arlington, VA 22201

Press Release

For Immediate Release:

August 3, 2023

Contact: Edward Blum

703-505-1922
edwardjayblum@gmail.com

Students for Fair Admissions Launches

WestPointNotFair.org
New website seeks to connect to recently rejected applicants to
West Point, the Naval Academy and Air Force Academy as well
as high school students planning to apply

(Arlington, VA) Today, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA)

launched WestPointNotFair.org, a new website that seeks to
connect to recently rejected applicants to West Point, the Naval
Academy and Air Force Academy as well as high school
students planning to apply.
On June 29, 2023, in Students for Fair Admissions v.
Harvard/UNC, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that institutions of
higher education are not allowed to classify or grant preferences
to any applicant on the basis of race. The Constitution’s
Fourteenth Amendment forbid these racial considerations.

The opinion in these cases included the following footnote:

“The United States as amicus curiae contends that race-based

admissions programs further compelling interests at our
Nation’s military academies. No military academy is a party to
these cases, however, and none of the courts below addressed
the propriety of race-based admissions systems in that context.
This opinion also does not address the issue, in light of the
potentially distinct interests that military academies may
present.”

It is the opinion of SFFA that there is no compelling interest to

our Nation’s military effectiveness or security to justify using an
applicant’s race or ethnicity as an admission factor to our
military academies.

As many retired military leaders have observed, the culture of

the armed services requires that each warfighter see fellow
warfighters as totally committed teammates, where race,
ethnicity and heritage, while respected, do not matter.

It is the hope of Students for Fair Admissions that the service

academies will soon end the use of racial classifications and
preferences in their admissions policies. Failure to do so, may
result in polarizing litigation.