The phrase "amount of applicants" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct term is "number of applicants," as "number" is used for countable nouns.
Example: "The number of applicants for the position has increased significantly this year."
Alternatives: "total of applicants" or "count of applicants."
"The amount of applicants who are qualified is definitely up," he said.
One of the most popular charters, the Latin American Montessori Bilingual Public Charter School received double the amount of applicants from last year.
"The list can be endless of the amount of applicants that'll be putting their names forward for it.
But, as members of search committees have told him, "There are nearly triple the amount of applicants" for each position.
The amount of applicants was overwhelming and the project established the new member process.
A surprising amount of applicants fail to do this simple thing...only answer what they're asking and don't get sidetracked.
Likewise, if they move toward accepting the most universal and generic form of application materials, they can help cut down on the amount of time applicants spend in the fall, and make an already difficult task slightly less onerous.
The Committee may elect to fund either a portion or the total amount of an applicant's request.
Every school selected on the common app is taking not only a check from the family, but a significant amount of an applicant's time.
Beginning with next year's entering class, Smith will distribute a budgeted amount of aid to applicants, starting with the most desirable ones - many of whom will be students Smith wants precisely because they are poor or from minorities.
Although the SoP is absent from Swales' (1996) occluded genre list, it resembles other occluded genres in that accessing SoPs already submitted to graduate programs is generally restricted to admission committees due to privacy regulations and a considerable amount of graduate school applicants are unwilling to share their SoPs due to the personal details revealed in these texts.
