[rizzom5000]

There are surely many reasons it was worth sharing. For me it was educational to contemplate the number of applications submitted.

Also, in this case it was fun to the see the letterheads for a large number of well-respected engineering schools all addressed to the same person. Just to be in the position to be rejected by those departments is a significant accomplishment, after all.

[lliiffee]

In my experience, the number of applications submitted is actually somewhat low compared to most recently graduated PhDs these days.