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A Whole Candidate Score Is Important, But Not Determinant

• Many applicants who were not offered admission had higher whole candidate scores (WCSs) than applicants who were offered admission. Whether this results from some combination of judgments of the essay component of applications that were not available to us and/or class composition goals is unknown.
• WCSs are composed of several elements that measure such characteristics as aptitude, fitness, ranking in high school, and extracurricular participation.

The WCS Has a Statistically Significant Relationship with Graduation from West Point and Probability of Promotion to O-5

• All but one sub-element of the WCS make significant contributions to the prediction of graduation. School ranking is not predictive of graduation but is significant in prediction of both early O-4 promotion and O-5 promotion. Fitness and athletic scores are statistically significant predictors of graduation, and fitness scores are also significantly associated with higher probability of promotion to O-5.
• This study shows that applicants scoring higher on WCSs have a greater probability of graduation, the first necessary step for entering a career as an Army officer, and of promotion to O-5, traditionally considered the mark of achievement of a successful military career.