![]() ![]() If offered admission, all costs are covered for all students indeed there are no “full scholarships,” per se. After that, a rigorous vetting process begins. Also, according to West Point, there is no such thing as a “full scholarship” to the military academy, as Carson represented in his book.Īn application to West Point begins with a nomination by a member of Congress or another prominent government or military official. I told it as I understood it.”Ĭarson would have needed to seek admission in order to receive an offer of free education from West Point. “It was, you know, an informal ‘with a record like yours we could easily get you a scholarship to West Point.’”Ĭarson on Friday afternoon was asked by Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly whether he should have been more clear about the circumstances surrounding West Point in his book, and replied, “I guess it could have been more clarified. But I made it clear I was going to pursue a career in medicine.” Because I had done so extraordinarily well you know I was told that someone like me – they could get a scholarship to West Point. In an interview with The New York Times following the POLITICO story, Carson said: “I don’t remember all the specific details. He considered it but in the end did not seek admission.” “They told him they could help him get an appointment based on his grades and performance in ROTC. “He was introduced to folks from West Point by his ROTC Supervisors,” Bennett added. Carson’s performance as ROTC City Executive Officer.” He can’t remember with specificity their brief conversation but it centered around Dr. “In that role he was invited to meet General Westmoreland. Carson was the top ROTC student in the City of Detroit,” campaign manager Barry Bennett wrote in an email to POLITICO. When presented by POLITICO with these facts, Carson’s campaign conceded he never applied. “If he chose to pursue (the application process), then we would have records indicating such,” she said. She said West Point has no records that indicate Carson even began the application process. “In 1969, those who would have completed the entire process would have received their acceptance letters from the Army Adjutant General,” said Theresa Brinkerhoff, a spokeswoman for the academy. West Point, however, has no record of Carson applying, much less being extended admission. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Friday conceded that he never applied nor was granted admission to West Point and attempted to recast his previous claims of a full scholarship to the military academy - despite numerous public and written statements to the contrary over the last few decades. Carson never explicitly wrote that he had applied for admission to West Point, although that was the clear implication of his claim to have received an offer of a “full scholarship,” a point that POLITICO’s initial report should have made clear. And today in response to POLITICO he acknowledged for the first time that was not the case. POLITICO’s reporting established that Carson said he received a “full scholarship” from West Point, in writing and in public appearances over the years - but in fact he did not and there is actually no such thing as a “full scholarship” to the taxpayer-funded academy. The original story and headline said that Carson’s campaign had admitted he “fabricated” a “full scholarship” from West Point, but now Carson denies that his campaign’s statement constituted such an admission, and the story and headline were changed to reflect that. Editor’s note: POLITICO stands by its reporting on this story, which has been updated to reflect Ben Carson’s on the record response. ![]()
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