Edit custom post type admin menu link

You can use the admin_menu hook. You will be able to loop over all menus.

add_action( 'admin_menu', 'wpse_306432_edit_post_type_admin_menu', 11);
function wpse_306432_edit_post_type_admin_menu()
{
    global $menu;

    foreach($menu as $k => $v){
        if($v[1] == 'edit_applications') // possibly 'edit_application', I'm not sure
        {
            $menu[$k][2] = 'edit.php?post_status=all&post_type=application&cat=36&paged=1'; // I modify your query
            break;
        }
    }
}

Should work for you 🙂

Don’t hesitate to add a nice :

echo '<pre>';
var_dump($menu);
echo '</pre>';
die();

After global $menu to understand how it works, and change more !