<p>I have never understood how the “congressional quota” works. Truthfully, I don’t even think there is a congressional quota like everyone always tries to point out. In my class there are 9 people from my congressional district. While not all of these mids got congressional noms, a good deal did. Every year there a good number from my district, and I’m not even from MD, VA. With the amount of MD mids, there is no way to explain it using this congressional quota. According to the catalog there are 227 mids from MD. Maryland has only 10 seats in Congress. By this quota, only 50 mids came from congressional noms. Anyone have a way to explain this?</p>