How to Get Into West Point

The primary historical source is Annex A, printed App.85–88, in Supreme Court docket 23A696. It is a government directive included in a litigant’s public appendix, not a new FOIA release or a Supreme Court endorsement of this calculator.

The 2015 RAND study describes the earlier WCS structure and analyzes older cohorts. It does not validate our new planning index. We checked West Point’s public FOIA instructions; no new records request was submitted.

For each SAT section, define M or V = (score − 200) ÷ 600. For ACT, first use the Math and English+Reading section tables in the official 2018 ACT/College Board concordance. We use section comparisons, not the ACT composite or the historical ACT formula that required Science. West Point currently says optional Science and Writing are not required. Concordance is not proof of its internal conversion. CLT stays unknown.

School proxy S: GPA 0 / 2.0 / 3.0 / 3.7 / 4.0 maps to 0 / 20 / 50 / 80 / 100, interpolated between anchors, then divided by 100. These are SAC anchors shared with our USNA tool; 3.7 is not claimed as a West Point cutoff or recommendation. If GPA is unavailable, S = (class size − rank) ÷ (class size − 1). Use one school measure, not both. Neither captures rigor or West Point’s missing GPA lookup table.

The historical SAT predictor uses coefficients 316.935 for the converted school value, 0.333 for verbal, and 0.981 for math. SAC assumes a 0–1 school-proxy range and normalizes the SAT ranges to allocate today’s 55 academic points:

Academic planning points = 55 × (316.935 × S + 199.8 × V + 588.6 × M) ÷ 1105.335

This gives approximately 15.77 points to school, 9.94 to verbal, and 29.29 to math. These are SAC allocations derived from historical coefficients and assumed ranges, not published current subweights. The original intercept cancels when normalizing the full assumed range. We do not label the result CEER or ACEER.

We carry forward the historical equal split of the 30 leadership points: 10 athletics, 10 other activities, and 10 school official evaluations. This internal split is an assumption for current use. Evaluations always stay unknown.

Historical activity values 200–800 become (value − 200) ÷ 600 × 100. Athletic values used here: no organized sport 200; JV/team participation 300; varsity without a letter 400; one varsity-letter sport 500; letters in two sports, one captaincy, or a black belt within three years 600; first-team All-Area or captaincy in two sports with class size over 100, 700. Without class-size confirmation, multiple captaincies use 600. Recreational fitness receives a SAC bridge value of 250. The historical 800 tier requires an internal athletic rating or official converted CFA information we cannot verify, so it is not awarded automatically. Club and Soldier records needing interpretation remain unmodeled.

Other activities use 200 for none, 300 for some participation, 400 for regular participation, and 500 for elected club office. Mapping regular participation and elected office to the historical selectivity categories is a SAC simplification. Recurring work/family responsibility receives a SAC value of 500; leading a completed project with a result receives 600. Listed distinctions generally use 600, with student-body presidency or Boys/Girls Nation at 700. Three separate listed distinctions use 700; four use 800. The maximum supported tier is used, not a sum of activity points. Generic project or work entries do not count toward the multiple-distinction bonus.

These simplified categories do not cover every award or circumstance. Choose individual review when your record does not fit. The model does not infer how teachers will evaluate you or what an admissions officer will decide.

We use the following current West Point maximum references. They are not minimum passing marks.

For throw and repetition events, the ratio is result ÷ reference. For running events, it is reference time ÷ result time, using seconds. Each ratio is capped at 1. Fitness planning points = 15 × the average of the six ratios. Equal weighting and these ratios are SAC assumptions. A ratio of 0.70 means 70% of that repetition/distance reference, or 70% of the reference speed for running; it is not a 70th percentile or an official score.

The women’s alternate hang has its own 40-second reference. We show the raw comparison but leave the combined fitness component unknown because no defensible hang-to-pull-up conversion was verified. A zero event can coexist with a high average; the tool never calls that a pass. Numeric entry limits only catch likely input mistakes and are not eligibility standards. Follow your current candidate instructions if a published chart conflicts.

When all six modeled components are available, we add their weighted planning points, divide by 90, and multiply by 100. The remaining 10 points belong to the assumed school-evaluation allocation and stay unknown. Missing inputs produce a partial subtotal, never a rescaled overall index. Keeping evaluations outside the normalized display means the 15 fitness points represent 15 of the full model’s 100 points, or one-sixth of its 90 modeled points.

Any displayed uncertainty range lets the missing weight vary across its full possible range under these assumptions. It is not a confidence interval, an official WCS range, or a prediction. Historical committee adjustments are not applied. School context, recommendations, current internal conversions, nominations, qualification, and admissions judgment remain outside the model.

The index is for comparing preparation scenarios within this tool. Do not compare its number directly with our USNA index: the academies and modeled rubrics differ. Neither index has been calibrated against official applicant scores or admission outcomes. No GAIN code, proprietary conversion table, or calculator output was used to fit this model.