On Friday at 11:25 am, I picked up my darling husband from the airport after his 16 day trip. Let me just say, It is so WONDERFUL to have him home. The kids and I missed him beyond description!
I'm sure you all know that Lane will be completing dental school this June. Yay!! Since he wants to be an orthodontist, our schooling doesn't end there. So for those 16 days he was gone, he was flying all over the country going to ortho residency interviews. So far he has been to Indiana, Missouri, Connecticut, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Kentucky. Next he interviews here, Texas, and Wisconsin. The good thing, MATCH day is December 3. So on that day we will know if and where we matched at. Acceptance to ortho residency programs is not done in a traditional way.
MATCH needs some description: It's a computer generated theoretical best fit analysis. After interviews you rank where you want to go the most. Likewise the schools rank who they want the most. Somebody hits the magic compute button and then somebody tell you where your going.
You can only MATCH at one school, and only 40% of applicants MATCH so saying that it's competitive is an understatement. We feel very blessed to have so many interviews and we will rank our schools prayerfully. So the way we figure, we've done all we can do. So if it's meant to be this year, we will MATCH, if not, we will reapply next year. I really hope that doesn't happen though. I also really hope we MATCH here.
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I hope you get MATCHed here too. First of all, because you guys are awesome, and second of all, I'm fairly certain we will need a good orthodontist in the future.
You have to let us all know when you find out. Now that your hubby is almost done, he's trying to talk my husband into it! I'll support, but I'm really looking forward to graduation in a year and a half, not 4 years!!
We're keeping our fingers crossed that its here too!
I am hoping you stay here as well. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for OHSU.
I really hope you Match here! I'm going to pray that you do. I know selfish. :)
Good luck. I hope that something works out for you guys this year. I think you asked in a previous post of mine where we are in Texas. San Antonio. Where in Texas does he interview.
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