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I am in the Denver Public Schools district and I was wondering what it means for a district to be competitive (better or worse for me) and how competitive is my district?
 
You are in what I would guess is a very competitive district. All that means is that there are a lot of candidates competing for the nomination in your congressional district. Denver, since it is very close to the Air Force Academy, is very likely highly competitive with lots of applicants for few slots. On the flip side, some not so competitive districts are those in areas where military and academy awareness is very low. At my high school in Oregon, they couldn't remember how long it had been since someone even applied to a service academy, but the best guess was something like 20 years, and I went to a fairly large (2200+ kids) public high school. When I applied for a nomination from my congressional representative, she called me a week later to congratulate me and let me know she was nominating me. I didn't even do an interview.
 
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You are in what I would guess is a very competitive district. All that means is that there are a lot of candidates competing for the nomination in your congressional district. Denver, since it is very close to the Air Force Academy, is very likely highly competitive with lots of applicants for few slots. On the flip side, some not so competitive districts are those in areas where military and academy awareness is very low. At my high school in Oregon, they couldn't remember how long it had been since someone even applied to a service academy, but the best guess was something like 20 years, and I went to a fairly large (2200+ kids) public high school. When I applied for a nomination from my congressional representative, she called me a week later to congratulate me and let me know she was nominating me. I didn't even do an interview.
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Okay thank you, now I understand what counts as competitive. I am hoping I'll be able to get a nomination next year. Any advice for an aspiring cadet? I posted my grades and extra curriculars on here: https://www.serviceacademyforums.co...ting-in-criticism-suggestions-and-more.70311/
 
I had this in an old file. I don't have more recent data. Remember that competitiveness can change each year and the district could have changed significantly in the last 8 years.

Only in 2009 did the MOC submit a full slate to USAFA. These numbers suggest the district does not get many applicants, which means getting a nomination should not be difficult. However, it only takes two excellent candidates to make it highly competitive.

Assuming you are in Colorado Congressional District 1 which includes Denver, here are the number of nominations to SA's for 2009 - 2012:

2009: USMA - 9; USNA - 7; USAFA - 10

2010: USMA - 5; USNA - 7; USAFA - 7

2011: USMA - 3; USNA - 4; USAFA - 5

2012: USMA -7; USNA - 9; USAFA - 9
 
Here's the whole list. It is in alphabetical order by MOC's last name (MOC as of 2012).
 

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@jl123 that is fascinating. I completely assumed that in my district there would have been 10s across the board.
Thank you very much. Where something says a # like 12, does that necessarily mean that they had 2 slots that year but didn't feel that had 20 good candidates?
 
That's very interesting - my year is on there! Looks like there were actually 9 from my district my year. That's definitely higher than I thought.
 
  1. Those are the only numbers I have.
  2. If there are more than 10 nominations, it means the MOC had more than one slate or a previously nominated candidate dropped out and the nomination went to an alternate.
  3. I believe N/A means the data was unavailable, not that there were no vacancies.
 
jl123 said:
  1. Those are the only numbers I have.
  2. If there are more than 10 nominations, it means the MOC had more than one slate or a previously nominated candidate dropped out and the nomination went to an alternate.
  3. I believe N/A means the data was unavailable, not that there were no vacancies.
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Thank you. Wasn't sure if it meant 'not applicable' as opposed to 'not available.'
 
Ok I feel really dumb here, but in the Yale law data, how do you know which district is yours (or which of those are the senators)? Those aren’t usually the way I see districts laid out, eg NJ-09 typical, this days things like NJ621
 
NJDadofDSUSMA2024Hopeful said:
Ok I feel really dumb here, but in the Yale law data, how do you know which district is yours (or which of those are the senators)? Those aren’t usually the way I see districts laid out, eg NJ-09 typical, this days things like NJ621
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which data set are you looking at? Some are organized by district, some by name of the representative/senator - those are in alphabetical order by first name.
 
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