Half Way!

The last month or so has been really crazy for us, but Eric is officially half way done with interviews.

As mentioned in a previous post, he ended up applying to 20 places for residency. And, about as we expected/hoped for, he got offered interviews at 10. Some of the rejections were from prestigious research-heavy schools that we expected (Hopkins, Harvard, etc). Some were really surprising (UNC - apparently they have no love for their fellow North Carolinians!). But I think we're both pretty happy with the 10 that he's going on.

We tried to be as smart about scheduling as possible, which meant about one interview a week for the first 4 weeks while we were both working, then two weeks off for Thanksgiving, followed by five back-to-back at the start of Eric's vacation month.

The first five went really well. Of those, we both really liked Wake Forest (of course), Univerisity of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, and the University of Louisville. (We also visited Charleston, SC, and the University of Maryland in Baltimore -- both were okay, but not our faves.)

As of this weekend, the back-to-back interviews begin! Eric will be heading to Richmond, VA, Birmingham, AL, Providence, RI, Pittsburgh, PA, and Dallas, TX over the next two weeks. That's a crazy lot of traveling in a super short span!
(I'll only be going to Rhode Island since I don't need to be taking too much time off of work before I go out on maternity).

I'm really curious to see how this next round goes, and what our top choices will be. There's already some great cities/programs in the mix, so no matter what we know we should hopefully be able to end up somewhere we like... we'll just have to wait and see!