Grad School Responses

As Blake and I researched the very slim list of graduate programs that offer a Master's in Athletic Training, we narrowed it down to our top ten schools. After days and days of meticulously filling out applications, paying hundreds of dollars in fees and dealing with all kinds of weird accents and incompetent people, I finally finished and submitted all of them. Now that application deadlines are coming, I am anticipating acceptance / rejection letters any day now. 

I got a call from U of Ark this morning. It was the director of the program and he sounded exceptionally cheerful. He informed me that I was one of the top candidates for the program. Of course this was great news and I figured he just wanted to do an over the phone interview to complete my file. He then proceeded to tell me that I was missing a very basic wound care course. I told him they don't offer that at ASU and I've already graduated. He laughed. Literally laughed at what I said, told me there was nothing they could do, informed me that I could not take the course simultaneously with the athletic training courses and said I would have to apply next year. 

This is the kind of crap I get to look forward to in the next couple of weeks. I guess I just wasn't expecting those type of responses. 

Here is the list of applications I've submitted...

1) University of Hawaii, Manoa

2) Texas Tech University

3) University of Arkansas

4) Florida International University

5) Weber State University

6) University of Nebraska, Omaha

7) University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

8) Montana State University, Billings

9) Long Island University, Brooklyn

10) Oklahoma State University

I'm kind of writing this to vent my frustration with the whole process. I guess I can only go to one school anyway, so that helps me make my decision, but it still hurts to be rejected. I feel like I just got dumped! 

Blake has been nothing but supportive throughout this whole process and it's his future, too. I'm not sure what's more stressful though, filling out applications and waiting for graduate school responses or planning a wedding. It's a toss up. 

Two down, 8 to go. Pray for us.

- Megan