It's here! Tomorrow is December 14th, and it is the day Matthew and I have been waiting for since we started out on this CRAZY medical school process... December 14th is the day that all of the medical schools ask for a deposit to hold your seat at their school (for those accepted before November 14th). Today we finally heard from the last of the schools, so we knew it was decision time.. AHHH!!!
Schools accepted to:
1. Rocky Vista in Parker, CO
2. LECOM in Erie, PA
3. West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg, WV
4. Oklahoma State University in Tulsa, OK
5. A.T. Still University in Kirksville, MO
6. Des Moines University in Des Moines, IA (Wait-list)
Decision...
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| Kirksville is that little guy at the top of Missouri |
That's right. As of next summer, Matthew and I will be living in Missouri! I am so excited. This school is awesome, and we were so excited to find out that Matthew had been accepted there. :) Yeah, just FYI, they are the school that waited until TODAY to tell us. Talk about cutting it down to the wire! Insane... But totally worth it. AT Still has such a great reputation and it will present Matthew with very promising future opportunities. Most (if not all) of the best DO's we know have attended AT Still. Ever since Matthew interviewed there, I have felt so good about it and I have been hoping he would get in there. Everything I have heard about it is SO good. The academics, the community, the facilities, the ward, the "spouse support group", EVERYTHING! I am really excited to finally get started on this new adventure together.
Want some more good news??
I don't know if anyone knows what that means. It means that Matthew has been offered the Air Force Scholarship! This was HUGE news for us and such a relief! The knowledge that Matthew will graduate from medical school 100% debt free and with a job is the best thing in the world, especially with all of the uncertainty surrounding the future of health care. We were so excited to find out he had been selected! Now we just wait for him to be commissioned (probably sometime in February) and then maybe they will steal him for a month for officer training before we move away to Missouri.
Changes are coming, my friends! It is insane and sometimes it scares me, but I am so excited. We have been so blessed recently and I am so grateful! I am so proud of Matthew for all of his hard work, and I am so happy to see it all paying off. Happy times ahead!
