Ahh, I just found out I will be interviewing at UCSF!!! I am beyond ecstatic. I am seriously on the verge of tears but I'm at work so I'm keeping it together but for reals, I feel insanely lucky and extremely grateful for this chance. I thought I had a snowball's chance in HE double hockey sticks due to my subpar grades, overall gpa 3.3, pre-req gpa 3.0. My undergrad transcript is littered with mostly C's in practically all of my science-related courses, some B's, fewer A's but most of those are in foreign language courses, and a C- in o-chem which I had to re-take at a community college. I had my application postmarked Nov. 1 two hours before the post office was going to close, and PharmCAS didn't even mail out my stuff until beginning of Dec. so I can probably safely say my application could not have been received any later. And I am not a good writer. I did volunteer a lot in undergrad for a lot of different organizations on campus so I wonder if that's what put me over the edge but I didn't have huge leadership roles. Anyhow, the reason for this long post is, I just want to say no one should reject themselves from a pharmacy school. I almost did. I had a little voice in my head that was saying why even bother applying to UCSF especially after reading all of their app questions. They were the most difficult out of all the ones I've encountered so far in this applying process and it seemed like a lot of work for something I thought for sure I wouldn't get but I'm so glad I didn't listen. So yeah, apply apply apply even if you think you have no chance because you never really do know.
