Interview request at the University of Colorado School of Medicine

Colorado invited me for an interview!!!

I got the news at an internet cafe in Puerto Lempira, Honduras. Part of my motivation for going down to Honduras when I did was to escape from constant obsessing and waiting for interview invitations. I needed to do something beside sit around and wait; being part of a medical relief mission with Rescue Task Force (www.rescuetaskforce.org) gave that to me. Throughout the mission, I lived in the moment by necessity, whether during the three days of clinic or just getting from point A to point B (which, in Honduras, is not as easy as it sounds).

That doesn't mean, though, that I completely forgot about my medical school applications that I left behind in the "real" world. I was excited to learn that even the frontier town of Puerto Lempira has internet access because I wanted to check my e-mail. Maybe, just maybe, an interview invitation would be waiting for me in my inbox. I jumped up from my computer and screamed "Woo hoo!" when I got this e-mail:

I am writing to invite you to come for interviews with the Admissions Committee of the University Of Colorado School Of Medicine on Monday, 2/9/2009. On the day you are here, you will attend an orientation session during which you will receive information about financial aid and have the opportunity to talk with medical students. You will have two interviews with individual members of the Admissions Committee, lunch, and tour the campus.