[frankenMonkey]

The money quotes directly from Carson:

"Later I was offered a full scholarship to West Point."

"I also represented the Junior ROTC at a dinner for Congressional Medal of Honor winners, marched at the front of Detroit's Memorial Day parade as head of an ROTC contingent, and was offered a full scholarship to West Point"

[Vermont Lt]

One gets appointed to West Point.

I went to a military college and I got a “scholarship.”

Those attending with ROTC got ROTC Scholarships.

No West Pointer or West Pointer parent I have ever spoken to referred to it as a scholarship.

The process is pretty intense. You do not “forget” that stuff.

[Tammy8]

Which is not even how that works. No mention of an appointment, application or that there is no need of a scholarship to attend West Point if accepted.