Med School Update! :)

TOOT ALERT! (Meaning this will be a post of tooting my husband's horn... I'm really good at that!)

Wow, what a journey this whole med school thing has been! I will make this quick, but here is an update.

The process started with primary applications. I don't remember how many, but I think we sent the first ones to about 15 schools. Matt got secondaries from... All of them, I think! We were able to eliminate more schools based on more information that was presented to us. We sent secondaries to probably about... 10 schools. Then we started hearing back for interviews. We felt humbled and blessed at the amount of interviews that Matthew was awarded! Virtually every school he sent a secondary application to he got an interview to. I was so proud of him.

His interviews were set up to where we went to Denver first, the next week he made stops in Des Moines and West Virginia, the next weekend included a trip to Pennsylvania, and the next weekend was supposed to be a trip to Oregon. We went to Denver (which will probably be a separate post) and had a blast hanging out with Keith, Angie, and their kiddos. Matt had his interview on Thursday, so we hung out from Wednesday-Saturday. We got really lucky with this interview, because it turned out that the admissions board met the day after his interview, so we found out the next day that HE GOT IN!! :) We knew for sure that next year, Matthew would be attending medical school, and that it's just a matter of finding out where!

Jump ahead... Matthew has now been accepted to schools in Denver, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. He got wait listed at the school in Des Moines. But wait! That's not all... Just when we were weighing our options, we found out about 2 more interviews! One at a school in Missouri called AT Still, and one at... Oklahoma State University!!! He will now go to Tulsa to interview on November 16th and Missouri on November 30th. OSU was probably the biggest shock to us. Coming into this process, OSU was probably Matt's first choice. We didn't know what the chances were of him getting in because they accept 80% of Oklahoma residents... which we are not... We had all but crossed them off of our list until we found out about this interview!! I was so excited for him...

So I guess this means that we are still at a stand still. Hopefully around the first of December we will know everywhere he has been accepted and will be able to make a decision. We need to let every school know by December 15th... On top of that, as soon as Matthew found out he got in, he went and met with an air force recruiter... He had to get a physical, send in more letters of recommendation, write more essays, and fill out an extensive application. (Now you see why I haven't blogged in so long!) The physical got complicated when they tested his eye sight and failed him, which we saw coming... Then he had to get a waiver from the Surgeon General before the board would review his application... Well, after working his butt off, he got everything done at lightning speed, got cleared by the surgeon general, and now we are waiting to hear the board's decision! We will hopefully know by the end of the month... AHHH!!!

So... needless to say, life has been crazy! I am so proud of Matthew and so proud of all of the hard work he has put in to get where he is now. We have been so incredibly blessed throughout this process, and I am so grateful that he will be given the opportunity to become a doctor. The only thing more fun than chasing your own dreams is watching your husband chase his! :) I am so proud of him! Hopefully I will be able to post in another month about when and where we will be living this summer! Intense!

Until next time. (Sorry for the lack of pictures!)