Appointment Population Distribution

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akhilsharma13

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Hi, I am currently a candidate for the class of 2024 with 2 congressional nominations and have recently sent my 7th-semester grades, I was curious as to how the Academy distributes appointments per state in that is it population-based or is it strictly from who they deem qualified with a nomination?

For example, I have been keeping an eye on the rolling appointments for the 80 something current acceptances either via LOA or No LOA and have noticed that certain states such as Texas and Arizona have received far greater offers for acceptance than states such as mine like New Jersey.

I wanted to know if such a correlation is made by the admissions board in attempting to evenly distribute appointments. In addition, if there is a somewhat proportional distribution what is the average number of appointments per state made by the Academy. I am very curious about the admissions process and have emailed my counselor however I have not received a response. Thank you.
 
The stats from those who self-report here (has been running about 10% per year) are a wobbly base for extrapolation. No way of knowing if it’s a truly proportionate slice. The only geographic connections are the elected official noms. Service-related can be from anywhere; ditto VP and Superintendent’s discretionary batch. JROTC and college ROTC can be from anywhere, but obviously only from places that have them. WCS drives others from the national pool.

There is also a chunk of time left to go for appointments to come out.

I have no doubt the SAs slice and dice their appointments by every category imaginable, including comparing to previous years.

I suspect you have not received an answer because (1) they are busy with actual Admissions work at this peak season (2) it’s not critical to your application or anyone elses’s.
 
I would read this site - use the search function. They are busy.

First - these are stats of people that are admitted on this forum. Maybe up to 10/20% nationwide of all applicants?

Second, basics - approximately - each senator gets a slate and each member of Congress does as well. So California (53) will have more than New Jersey(12).
 
Agree that you can't extrapolate anything meaningful from this forum. First, many candidates don't come to this site. Second, many who lurk don't post. Third, many who post, may not post that they received an appointment. You'd like to think that this site is generally representative of applicants generally, but it likely is not.

A few other facts. The distribution among states ROUGLY tracks the number of MOCs they have. Consequently, populous states, such as CA will have more appointments than most other states because they have more MOCs and usually there is at least one candidate for each MOC each year. Thus, since CA ahs 50+ MOCs, it will obviously have more appointees than North Dakota, with 3 MOCs. However, appointments from other nom sources (e.g., Presidential, NROTC) are not geographically based.

Some MOCs submit their slates earlier than others, and thus appointments from those states and districts may come out earlier, especially if an LOA is involved. Some slates are more competitive than others, meaning additional candidates from those slates will receive appointments out of the national pool.

Finally, even if you received an answer to your question, it really has no bearing on your application.
 
Today, in part due to sites like this one, candidates know a lot more about the process than in our day. In some ways that's good; in some, it's not. The above said, we all understand the process is nerve-wracking, especially at this time of the year/admissions cycle. Unfortunately, there is little anyone can do to relieve that anxiety.
 
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