As the adage goes, "The plural of anecdote is not data."<p>Neither you nor your parent have any statistical basis for your estimates. As of early this month [1], there are over 100,000 applications in the app store. If 1% were rejected, that means that 1,010 apps were rejected. Your two apps could easily fall into that category.<p>Basically, all we can know is that many apps get accepted, but not all of them do. Any more clarity than that requires Apple's intervention (which I don't expect to see any time soon).<p>[1]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store#Number_of_launched_applications" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store#Number_of_launched_ap...</a>