But that's not what I've said at all. I clearly have said that you should thoroughly consider your answers and put a lot of thought into them - it is the dream after all.
All I'm saying is that hours and hours spent on an application doesn't necessarily equal success. It might do, but it might not. You only have to look at this thread to see that some people who spent ages on their applications didn't get through and others did. It is not set in stone. I therefore thought it was unfair to essentially assume another poster hadn't had a response merely based on the amount of time they had spent answering.