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You can stand by it, but you’re just plain wrong. </p>
<p>Lets call this “math for lawyers” and use the statistics you just gave.<br>
Q. If 9,745 applicants apply for 182 spots, how many applicants are there for each spot?
**A.**To find the number of applicants per spot, divide the number of applicants by the number of spots. 9,745/182 = approximately 54.</p>
<p>54 is about a order of magnitude (factor of 10) less than “thousands”, no? And the actual odds of getting in are better than that; It’s virtually certain that to enroll (the big word for enroll is “matriculate”) 182 students they had to admit more than 182. Which means the odds of getting in to this 1 school are even better than 1 in 54.</p>