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 !