Chances of being selected as as engineer

This year, the AF will be selecting 18 Developmental Engineers in Aeronautics and 13 Developmental Engineers in Astronautics from ALL graduating cadets (AFA and ROTC)

The AFSC for Developmental Engineer is actually 62 (61 is the Scientist field).

I just want to make sure the leap I'm thinking is right so bear with me and my cluelessness.

The way I understand rated pilot slots to work is that so many go to the AFA and so many go to AFROTC. The way this reads to me is that Developmental Engineers slots are a pool and all can go to AFA or AFROTC if that's what the AF wanted to do.

Like I said I was just curios if the two career field are handled differently in this way and if so what other career fields are like this.
 
I just want to make sure the leap I'm thinking is right so bear with me and my cluelessness.

The way I understand rated pilot slots to work is that so many go to the AFA and so many go to AFROTC. The way this reads to me is that Developmental Engineers slots are a pool and all can go to AFA or AFROTC if that's what the AF wanted to do.

Like I said I was just curios if the two career field are handled differently in this way and if so what other career fields are like this.

Of course! From the info that I have on hand, there are still slots allocated specifically to the Air Force Academy for all of the rated positions.

All other career fields (aside from the special ones like STO/CRO and ALO) work in the combined model. All cadets(both AFA and ROTC) input their preferences and these are sent to Air Force Personnel Center where an algorithm is run to (1) maximize AF targets for AFSCs, (2) maximize # of desired degree-AFSC matches(when an AFSC requires a specific degree), (3) balance AFSCs to meet AF priorities (not sure how this is different from (1) and (4) Maximize cadet preferences.
 
My 2 cents: I work at an engineering firm directly across I-25 from USAFA. Almost all of our senior management is ex Air Force, some USAFA grads, some ROTC, all with EE or ME degrees. Moral of the story is they are management which is great (big $$$), but if you want to do hard core engineering, like me (mediocre $$$), then Air Force may not be the place for you. Like others have said, USAFA is about developing leaders.
 
Of course! From the info that I have on hand, there are still slots allocated specifically to the Air Force Academy for all of the rated positions.

All other career fields (aside from the special ones like STO/CRO and ALO) work in the combined model. All cadets(both AFA and ROTC) input their preferences and these are sent to Air Force Personnel Center where an algorithm is run to (1) maximize AF targets for AFSCs, (2) maximize # of desired degree-AFSC matches(when an AFSC requires a specific degree), (3) balance AFSCs to meet AF priorities (not sure how this is different from (1) and (4) Maximize cadet preferences.

As always thanks for taking the time to explain this.
 
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