Here’s the jawdropping difference between admissions at West Point and Michigan, according to the CEO reports. If two students with equal test scores and grades applied to West Point, and the school had only one spot to award them, it would be almost twice as likely to choose a black applicant over a white one. At Michigan, however, the school would be almost 174 times more likely to choose the black applicant. The fact of the matter is that West Point and the other service academies employ racial preferences, but not nearly on the same scale as this country’s top public universities. The defenders of Michigan’s race-driven policies obscure the debate when they try to hide behind West Point.