new news

med schools applied: 14
secondaries received: 11
invitations to interview: 4
acceptances: 1
still awaiting: 2

today seemed like the day when all the med schools i'm still waiting for decided to send me information updating my status with them. first of all, two weeks ago, i was accepted to the university of pittsburgh medical school!! i'm going to be a doctor!! frances called to tell me the absolutely fabulous news and it was awesome. people keep asking if it's my first choice and all i can say is, i'd be happy going there. it's such an adorable little city with rivers, bridges, neighborhoods...and they really want me! i'd be happy going to mayo or wash U too...that was probably one of my best decisions. it doesn't make sense to apply to places you wouldn't be happy living in for the next 4 years. anyways, so i interviewed at those two other places...i love the mayo philosophy, but rochester is less contemporary than the pittsburgh and st. louis. i may need some more for my soul than chili's and snowshoeing. st. louis was all right. it didn't seem particularly happening and it's got the highest tuition out of the three. today i received an invitation to interview at jefferson medical college in philidelphia, what i considered my back-up school. i doubt i'll go, just because it means taking time off work and i don't think i would choose jefferson over pittsburgh. but i figure my application statistics aren't too bad, considering how lazy i was about the whole process. so far, it's pittsburgh, here i come!!



next step: plan the summer.

gotta move out of oakland, do some good works in asia, and spend a couple weeks in san diego before i move to the east coast!