chhappy7

Applied to 10 schools, got rejected by 6, interviewed at 1, and still yet to hear back from 3. 
The interview was with Dartmouth PEMM program and was accepted with fellowship award.
The offer letter came roughly 5 days after the interview, which is amazing considering how interview was Fri-Sat, and Monday was a holiday.
91% verbal, 94% quant and 82% writing and not the best GPA (lots of working to put myself through college and help family out with some expenses) from UC Berkeley, but did receive a scholarship that is given to roughly 2% of incoming class and lasts 4 years.
3 papers (none are first author though but they were published in journals that have impact factors of around 9, 13, and 19), basic research lab for last 2 years of college, 2 years post grad at a translational research lab at UCSFand 1.5 (and counting) at what was a biotech start up.
Rec from company director, a post doc I worked with but is now a PI level at a company, and PI of the translational research lab.