I was hired spring '05 and was by far the highest time in my class with about 2500 hours with about 300 turbine. I was told by more than one instructor back then I was lucky to get the interview because I was right at the point of probably having too much time. And this was before the "big pre-bankruptcy CRJ-200 announcement" I was told that (granted it was back then) usually 2500 was the cut off, the preferred time range was 1100-1500. and based on the times of my classmates that was quite accurate. I think the average (throwing my times out) was about 1350 with about 120 multi.