Are Prior Service Active Duty Army more competitive than civilians applying for Active Duty OCS? If so, how?

You have about half of it soundly covered, the rest is going to be your interview with the the board. When I was the Ops OIC at a recruiting BN I was in charge of conducting the boards and the interviews and on more than one occasion we voted civilians off the street higher simply based on the way they presented themselves. Expect a lot of questions about your prior service and your reasons for wanting to return to service as an officer.

Practice you board appearance, just like a promotion board you will have to answer situational questions, as well as those about your background. Low grades, career goals, and any other signs that indicate inability to rise to the challenge.
I will tell you that after 24 months of doing OCS boards I am more interested in applicants that can briefly communicate answers and own the facts.

Call me at [login to see] . I'm currently a recruiter for the Army and have experience with doing officer packets for RA and AR.

Yes the army wants people with prior service experience. I think you will have no problem being accepted as long as there is nothing negative you left out of the post.

If you’re in graduate school now and willing to switch to being a full-time student, consider ROTC as an option.

Make sure you find a good recruiter willing to help you out on OCS packet, and you need to suspend your IRR status via submitting DD368. Call Army HRC at [login to see] for DD368. Good luck!!!

Make sure you find a recruiter willing to help you out on OCS packet. Since you're a prior service, you need to submit DD368 through a recruiter to suspend your IRR status.

Good luck, Specialist. I can't imagine the Army wouldn't want someone like you, who seems to be a hard-charger.

It is way easier to get selected as a civilian than in the Army. If you have ETS’d then you shouldn’t have any trouble. The company I am in has had 100% selection for OCS applicants since I have been here.

If you haven't gotten help on this yet let me know. I've helped many applicants through the process and so far 100% of our applicants have been selected.