AMO-ex; the committee arranged a 10-minute interview (no presentation)

My current PI knows the PI I am interested at UA, exactly same field of work I am doing right now

AMO / Quantum Simulation

Did an REU at MSU in Material Science and Engineering. No GRE. CMP Exp

Have 2 summer internships at Argonne National Laboratory in Materials Science and a Physics B.S.

12 publications (2 first-author) and 3 papers (1 first-author) in review at various Nature journals. Letter from an MIT professor, 2 Harvard professors and 1 clinician at Dana-Farber. Being an international applicant is tough.

I completed my undergraduate program earlier this year, and this is my second year in a row applying to Ph.D. programs (I made it into none last year). I spent one year prior to college working with a research group at a university back home. I worked continuously for all four years of college with another research group in the same subfield as that in which I hope to pursue doctoral research. I attended three NSF-funded summer REU programs, and presented at two research symposia. GPA within the physics major was around a 3.9. I received honors, and completed a year-long senior research thesis parallel to my other research involvement with yet another research group.