I've talked with professors that do physics graduate school admissions decisions. All in all, they told me that it is not too difficult to get 700-800 applicati

I've talked with professors that do physics graduate school admissions decisions. All in all, they told me that it is not too difficult to get 700-800 applications down to 100-150. Unfortunately, they need to get it down to more like 60-70, and they all agree it's probably not very much better than random from there =/.