If uprooting your children was such a concern, then why did you apply to 20 schools outside of your home state, some as far away as Michigan and Tennessee?
Given that only three of the schools on your lengthy list are osteopathic and added well after your submitted your AMCAS, D.O. was your plan B. Go to the interview--you were obviously hoping for better and now you have the chance.
Yeah but things change once you've gotten in a school in your home state. I know someone who has a family and is planning on applying out of state as a back up if its the very last option, but if the option is there and he gets in and MD or DO school here he would go here even if he had an interview out of state. Does that make him horrible for applying to those schools?? No.
Perhaps she originally wanted to consider those schools but the more she got into the process she realized she didn't want to leave.
You'd be surprised by how many people apply to a lot of schools initially only to change their minds either pre or post interview during the middle of the cycle. Sometimes its not til they are in the midst of the app cycle that they truly understand what they want as far as schools go. At least if she turns it down it shouldn't affect us because she'll be giving someone else who wants to go there more an opportunity.
That said, UVM is still in the northeast regiion and if you are in Pennsylvania then that isn't too far. Going from the tip of the panhandle of Florida to the tip of South Florida would be a longer drive then that. But the NE states are pretty close to one another making the distance much less.
I'd go to the interview but I say that on the basis of the fact that I've heard wonderful things from a friend who posts on here and who goes to my institution. UVM was one of their first interviews and they were very positively impressed.