Sort by month query

All,
I'm trying to display "Mon" (i.e. Jan, Feb, Mar, ...), but sort by "MM" (i.e. Mar, Apr, May) but am having issues with the query. This is the query I'm trying to run:
<pre>
select null link, to_char(date_created, 'Mon'), count(applicant_id)
from applicant
group by null, to_char(date_created, 'Mon')
order by to_char(date_created,'MM')
</pre>
Looking for some advice on how to sort by the cardinal month value while displaying the month name value.
Thanks.

One solution would be:
select null link, createdate, cnt
from ( select to_char(date_created,'MM') sortdate, to_char(date_created, 'Mon') createdate, count(applicant_id) cnt
from applicant
group by to_char(date_created,'MM'), to_char(date_created, 'Mon')
order by sortdate

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