Soon-to-be-Sooners

Aaron spent October 17 - November 9 traveling around the country for interviews for orthodontic programs. He sent out his applications in August/September and the interview invitations started rolling in. He received 9 invitations but was only able to attend 6 interviews as four were scheduled for the same day! He unfortunately had to decline the VCU interview as it was the same day as his interview in Houston (UT Health Science Center) - our first choice. He also interviewed in Alabama at UAB, Denver at University of Colorado, Indianapolis at IUPUI, St Louis at University of St Louis, and Oklahoma City at OU Health Science Center.

Orthodontics program acceptance is done using a matching system, you rank the programs, they rank you, and then the computer works its magic. Our final rank order was Houston, Oklahoma, Alabama, Indiana, St Louis, and then Denver. We were pretty sure Aaron would match so it was just a waiting game until we found out.

November 29th was match day. The results weren't supposed to be released until noon, but they sent out an email early. Aaron was on a rotation in rural Virginia and was seeing patients. I logged into his email around 10am, just to see if that was the method of delivery and it was! I opened the email and then called Aaron immediately. He didn't answer so I called him probably 10 times and also sent him a text. He finally texted me back and we were able to talk on the phone. He was matched to the OU Health Science Center in Oklahoma City - his second choice!

I am incredibly proud of Aaron - he worked SO hard the past 3 years of dental school to ensure he was top of his class so that he could get into orthodontics. And he did it! He's thrilled and he loved the program when he interviewed. It's 2.5 years and starts July 1. He's one of four residents in his class and he's already friends with two of them on facebook. He's also been assigned a "big brother" and has been waiting on pins and needles for the information to trickle in. OKC is just a 7.5 hour drive from Houston or a quick, cheap flight away. There are also direct flights to SLC which makes visiting the west coast so much easier.

We're excited for our next adventure in OOOOOOOOOKLAHOMA!