In the United States in 2007, approximately 5,750 applicants competed for the 2,650 seats in the 28 accredited veterinary schools, with an acceptance rate of 46%.

In the latter category is Columbia Grammar, where siblings got most of the kindergarten slots and more than 500 applicants competed for the 34 remaining seats.

And at Washington University in St. Louis, 19,512 applicants competed for 1,280 places in the freshman class, up from 8,329 a decade ago.

Last year was the first time that Internet applications were required, and nearly 6 million applicants competed for a chance to apply for 50,000 immigrant visas.

According to 2008 vestibular, 38,220 applicants competed for 6,175 places in dispute that year.

That 13,000 applicants compete for the 1,100 plebe openings.

Each year, approximately 2000 applicants compete for the 64 spots in each class.

Last year, 100,000 applicants competed for only 10,000 units.

Each year, 2,000 applicants compete for 500 openings and 99 percent of incoming freshmen graduate on time.

The Centre became the object of hope and the number of applicants increased to the extent that in an African country more than 500 applicants competed for ten scholarship awards.