First response from a Med School.

Jason just heard back from his first Med School yesterday.

A letter came in the mail for him at my parents house. My sister Penny sent me a text telling me there was a letter for Jason from some med school but she couldn't remember which one. I didn't think much of it because he has been getting a few letters from schools asking him to apply to them.

I got Jason from school so he could come home and study for a test. When we got home I told him Penny said he got a letter. He asked which school, so I texted Penny asking which one. While I was texting my mom called me. Asked if I wanted to meet her at Costco for grocery shopping. I had to take Jason back to school to take the test so I most likely wouldn't be able to.

I asked her where the letter was from. Dartmouth. My jaw dropped a little. They told Jason he wouldn't hear from them until January. I told him it was from Dartmouth. Jason looked a little down, he said it was probably a rejection letter because it came so soon. We asked my mom to open it.

"Dear Jason: Congratulations... It's a pleasure to inform you... Dartmouth Medical School Admissions Committee has accepted your application for admission and approved a position for you in the 2010 entering class of the M.D. program... A deposit is not required... Call ______ if we can answer any questions for you"

I thought it was a hoax when my mom was reading it to me, or at least a tricky way of saying he wasn't accepted. Jason was studying while I was trying to relay the message from my mom to him. He didn't get it. After she read the letter to me (the important parts) I turned to Jason and said, "You were ACCEPTED! You made it!"

He looked shocked and then ecstatic! He called his parents, I texted my siblings. I asked if I could post it on my blog and he told me as soon as he saw the actual letter and made sure it wasn't a fake I could post it.

Needless to say I got in the car and met my parents at Costco to get some groceries, and the letter of course.

I brought it home, read it, took pictures of it, and then let Jason read it ;) It also came with a personal note telling Jason congratulations and to call if he had any questions, it was from the director of admissions.

WOW! I am so glad he is in! Now we can drop some of the other schools (ones we don't really care about, but applied because Jason knew he could get in)! He will still go to interviews to ones that are in the locations we want (if he gets interviews with them).

Interviews

Three more interviews:

Minnesota: University of Minnesota (twin cities)

Reno: University of Nevada

Colorado: University of Colorado

Birthday, over a week late, oops.

My birthday was last Tuesday. We had family in town for general conference (Janna, and Jason's parents) which made the birthday extra fun.

During the weekend we went to the afternoon session of General Conference on Saturday. It was so great. After conference we went to eat at the first KFC ever (it is in SLC) it is also a buffet! Then we went to Tai pan to look around, we didn't end up getting anything, but they have great things. Then it was Nordstrom rack (very over-rated) I only found a couple of things that were even cute, it was awful. Then Rue21, which had a much better selection and the prices were better too! After shopping we went to Tucanos to celebrate Tan getting into BYU.

Sunday we watched conference then went to my parents where we had amazing BFD (breakfast for dinner) opened presents, and then played apples to apples (bible edition), and Trivial pursuit pop culture2.

Monday was a long day. I had 2 english classes, work, another english class, work, ASP (after school program), and back to my school for math.

After math I went home and opened some more presents, then we met up with my family at Los Hermanos. Dinner was alright. Not the best.

Tuesday, my actual birthday, was another long day. Started out with an english class then work until 3, ASP, back to my school for math, testing center to take a math test, Olive garden to pick up birthday dinner, home to eat birthday dinner and watch tivo'd house.

The President..

Oops, In my hurry to get that post out I forgot to write a couple of things that happened.

While I was wandering around the Capital by myself I decided to go to the Washington Monument. As I was walking I heard a whole bunch of sirens. I looked all around trying to see what was going on. On my left were 2 cars one a dark SUV and the other a dark Lincoln. In front of those cars were two cop cars and one Dark SUV all had lights and sirens and behind them were two more cop cars. I watched them drive by and then heard their sirens heading to the white house. I tried to take a picture, but I couldn't pull out my phone fast enough. I may have seen the Pres driving around, then again it may have been his family, or just some other important people with a police escort...

Washington DC

First things first. Jason had an interview at George Washington University in Washington DC a couple of weeks ago, and I was lucky enough to go with him. While he interviewed I checked out the city, and when he was finished with the interview we went around together. It was a lot of fun, and way cool! Unfortunately I forgot to bring an actual camera so I had to make due with my phone. Here are some pictures.

Taking the metro to our hotel

First day: Washington monument

Farmers market outside the department of agriculture

This freaked me out a little. There was a helicopter overhead, ambulance, firetruck, firemen all dressed up, more cop cars not in the picture, and more cop cars on the other side of the building too.

Turns out it was just a security drill.

The White house

Awesome map made of each state's license plates found in one of the Smithsonians.

International spy museum

Museum of the American Indian

The national book festival outside of the Library of congress. There were so many people it was crazy, and such amazing authors!