<p>Congrats to your daughter!</p>
<p>Congrats to D, and of course you as well! </p>
<p>I’ll watch for the personal ad on craigslist for “cheap man-whore w/1 kidney.”</p>
<p>Is an acceptance that quick from time of interview the norm?</p>
<p>Curmudgeon, One very big congrats to you and your daughter! I’m sure this is just the beginning of your “To Do List”!</p>
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<p>Well, when you interview a week after interviews close for the season things tend to happen fast. ;)</p>
<p>Congratulations to your daughter, curmudgeon! If I recall correctly, she’s got some good in-state choices as well. Will the decision boil down to money, do you think?</p>
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<p>Congrats to the mudgette…looks like the decision process just got a bit more interesting…</p>
<p>Curmudgeon, congrats to your daughter and you.</p>
<p>I guess Rhodes worked out.</p>
<p>Curm –
Warmest congratulations to you and your daughter. It appears this admission, along with the others and the additional honors she has received, are very well deserved.</p>
<p>As one of many who was very interested in the choice your daughter made for undergrad (high prestige/great education/lots of out of pocket vs less prestige/very good education-maybe great/little to no out of pocket)…it will be very interesting to see what choice she will make for grad. I know there are many more (important) criteria than the 3 I listed that went into your d’s decision about undergrad, and will go into her decision about medical school…and, as always, I expect you will share many of those with us, too. </p>
<p>You have been incredibly open with much of the search, application and selection process your family has gone through – both for undergrad and now medical school. It has helped many of us…(and caused some of us to over analyze the decisions our families have made!) </p>
<p>Your willingness to share so much with a bunch of strangers is very much appreciated. The good humor with which you share is a wonderful added bonus!</p>
<p>New Haven is cold, but I have a feeling she doesn’t care about that much at all right now… 
Congrats! That is big, big, big time.</p>
<p>Curm,
congratulations to you and your daughter !!!</p>
<p>That is outstanding! Congratulations to her and to you.</p>
<p>Ditto what 2boysima said.</p>
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<p>Just start humming: what a long, strange trip (cc) has been…conjuring up images of your '60’s VW bus, Jerry Garcia… :)</p>
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I had a red Karmann Ghia. The rest is pretty accurate. ;)</p>
<p>Grats to your daughter and you, Curm!</p>
<p>Thank, y’all. D is pretty excited. Long, strange trip is right. </p>
<p>She’ll start thinking about money in a few days. Right now she’s just…happy. </p>
<p>somedaughter and my data point did it differently, but both beat some pretty daunting statistical odds gaining acceptances to some pretty impressive med schools. In both of their cases, “other factors” found a way to shine through. I’m sure there are kids reading my kid’s mdapps and saying “Huh? Say what?” I wanted to share more info than that in this thread. </p>
<p>I had the pleasure of reading both their personal statements. They weren’t that similar except in this way … they really couldn’t have been written by too many other applicants. 
There are many different ways up the mountain. </p>
<p>I hope my D’s story of one path has been instructive, wherever she ends up. It’s been a pleasure to share it as it happens and I’m glad it has been appreciated.</p>
<p>Well Curm it looks like Hubbellgardner hit the nail on the head 11 months ago in post # 18 -</p>
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<p>Not only did she aim, she scored a direct hit! Congratulations to your daughter! Could you be any prouder? Is Yale acceptance # 5 or did I miss some in the past 59 pages??</p>
<p>She’s been fortunate enough to get 8.</p>
<p>EIGHT! :eek: That is absolutely incredible! What an amazing accomplishment!</p>
<p>Well, she interviews well. I said early in the process that if she could get to the interviews she’d be ok. Don’t underestimate the value of the interview.</p>