You got these applications because almost nobody hires junior developers. I'm sure they would rather apply to 'entry level developer' job listings, but there are none, so they apply to whatever they can find.
Why aren't there any entry level positions? We don't need any, we have 100M people with degrees everyone else in the world banging down the door to work here, so there's no incentive for corporations to train junior developers.
It's hard for me to rationalize that there is no need for entry level positions when every thread like this brings hiring managers out of the woodworks saying how they can't find talent to fill positions.
Problem is you don't want bootcamp barista as your new entry level employee, you want the nerd who has been into computers for years and is probably on par with your senior devs just without the workplace experience.
Why aren't there any entry level positions? We don't need any, we have 100M people with degrees everyone else in the world banging down the door to work here, so there's no incentive for corporations to train junior developers.