The phrase "applicants to win" is not correct in standard written English as it lacks clarity and context.
It could be used in a context where you are discussing the potential for applicants to achieve success or victory in a competition or selection process.
Example: "The competition is fierce, but we believe that the best applicants to win will demonstrate exceptional skills and experience."
Alternatives: "candidates to succeed" or "applicants to triumph".
Graf, 27, beat out about 1,200 applicants to win a casting show for her new job with the broadcaster Sky.
A youngster from Stoke-on-Trent Stoke-on-Trent Stoke-on-Trento win a one-year professional deal at Swindon Town.
(Most employers in North America want applicants to win or at least be eligible for ABGC certification, which requires graduating from an accredited program).
The company was one of 25 winners (out of 600 applicants) to win $25,000 from the fbfund, and is in the running to win an additional $225,000 this December.
Saban beat more than 50 applicants to win the head coaching job at Case in February 1950, thanks to what the university's president called his "unusually sound knowledge of football" and his "leadership qualities".
At 38 she is the youngest and, with a resume jammed with short-lived jobs at pop culture publications, perhaps most surprising applicant to win the Yaddo presidency, traditionally a post for tweedy arts aficionados plucked from the ivory tower, not the 44th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper.
These recommendations, laid out in a draft report to the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director, are aimed at correcting what the working group calls a "disturbing discrepancy": Black applicants are less likely to win independent investigator grants than whites.
He said the article, which was also published on Monday on the front page of The International Herald Tribune, attracted attention in the foreign press and might have drawn applicants who thought the chances to win were better than usual.
In other experiments, Dr. Risen and Dr. Gilovich found that students think that not doing their reading makes them more likely to be called on in class; that trading away a lottery ticket makes that ticket more likely to win; that an applicant to Stanford graduate school is less likely to get in if he goes around wearing a Stanford T-shirt.
A further 9% of state school applicants to Brasenose who are not offered a place there go on to win a place at another Oxford college.
He held contests for foster parents who were offered the chance to win a cruise to Ensenada if they recommended new applicants, according to the agency's newsletter.
