@Doc2Parent Thanks for your offer to help students and parents. Every year 2 threads are created, one for general discussion (which gets lot of posts and response) and one late in the cycle around April to post the results. So it will be helpful if you can respond to posts in the discussion thread which will get active once the cycle starts.
I am a parent of 2016-17 BS/MD student. All that I can say is 10+ years is EON. Every year it is getting more competitive and more applicants as they get to know.