You are an idiot. Did you listen to the presser or did you read the excerpt in his book referring to the offer? On Rush Limbaugh's show today, there was a WP graduate who was in the Academy at roughly the same time that Carson received the offer. He said that it was quite plausible given the USMA's efforts to recruit more minorities.
Why would Carson make this up?
You are the first to mention what I was thinking. It was 1969 and Carson was a smart kid from inner city Detroit who was going to be accepted to Yale and in ROTC. He mentioned speaking with Gen Westmoreland (the time and place of this meeting has been proved, Carson was given the honor as top ROTC student in Detroit) and that Gen Westmoreland and others from West Point mentioned to him that he would be a great candidate and it would be “easy†for him to get into West Point and what was offered was a “full scholarship†— as a kid would understand it was “freeâ€. And here’s what you mention— he is obviously a black man, and in 1969 they were looking for obviously talented black candidates for West Point. Carson says he never pursued West Point and he has always said he was only going to apply to one school — Yale or Harvard. He chose Yale because they beat Harvard in some contest. He had moved on from even considering West Point and had the money to apply to one school, so Yale it was. In an interview I saw a long time ago before he was ever a candidate he said he only applied to Yale and laughed about the fact that even though he had the stats and got in, he didn’t realize how hard it was to get into Yale and had put all of his eggs in one basket. I think I saw this on one of the Discovery channels specials, made years ago, highlighting the surgeons career and showing him doing actual brain surgery and explaining it as he went along.