Delta Airlines Receives 22,000 Applications for 300 Positions

By Patrick Boehler, TIME

Delta Airlines Receives 22,000 Applications for 300 Positions

December 27, 2012 Updated Dec 27, 2012 at 3:25 PM PDT

If the latest application numbers are any indication, it’s four times harder to be hired as a flight attendant by Delta Air Lines than it is to be accepted into Harvard.

According to a report by Bloomberg, 22,000 people have now applied for 300 positions as flight attendant with the world’s second largest carrier. A job application arrived at Delta’s human resources department every two minutes for an entire week, the company’s CEO Richard Anderson said in a recorded message to employees.

The acceptance rate of 1.4% is 4.2 times lower than that of Harvard University, which itself has the lowest acceptance rate among Ivy League universities and one of the lowest in the world.

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