[jarito]

You are assuming quality applicants are evenly distributed in terms of time of application - they aren’t. If you cut off at 100, you will only get a sample of people spewing fully automated application bots which mostly aren’t what you want.

[MichaelDickens]

If that's true, then it suggests an easy fix: leave your application up for four hours, then discard all applications you get for the first two.