Got my A as well! I nearly broke down myself. I'm 36, almost 37 and this has been my dream for as long as some of my peers have been alive. Been a long road to get here, EMT for nearly 15 years, putting my wife through undergrad and then foster parenting my autistic little sister in law after her mother died, while working full time and doing my own undergrad.
It's not my first A (Burrell said yes last week but I really wasn't vibing with them and the 2k nonrefundable deposit on top of being a private DO school and I might want to eventually practice outside the US, made them by far my backup school) but this is the one that really hit me.
That tremendous weight of imposter syndrome I've built over the past 15ish years of "you aren't good enough/smart enough to make it" just fell off my shoulders in a huge way.
And while I am irritated my alma mater UW wouldn't even interview me (my GPA was only 3.14 but from their damn biochemistry program which averages 2.7 and a 60% dropout rate, it kinda indicates that I was a pretty solid student, and my MCAT was a 510, and I'm the damn director of operations for a brand new program within UW med) apart from being closer and "more prestigious", WSU's genuinely holistic approach to admissions and actual focus on rural and underserved populations and supporting students in starting community medicine programs (which I've heard from some UW med students and faculty that UW DOES NOT support its students and faculty in doing new things) is really damn based. And I've heard rumors that it and the opportunity for student research has resulted in WSU students being impressively competitive for residencies.
Can't wait to meet everyone at the white coat ceremony! Now my wife and I just need to figure out how to pack up and downsize our house, find a place in Spokane, rent out our house in Kitsap, and get everything over there in 5 months.
