Phoenix, I could not be happier for you. This is my very first post ever on SDN, but I have followed Mayo very closely over the last two application cycles with you and MelissainSD. While my own story cannot meassure up to yours, I had a similar pathway in my medical school acceptances.
Mayo has been my dream school since the day I started applying so long ago. I was ecstatic to get an interview and was so impressed when I visited. I was at the end of the application cycle and was waitlisted. I had essentially abandoned all hope and was set on going to the University of Chicago when I received a call two weeks ago. I was in that last set of 3 people to get an offer off of the waitlist.
I was offered the Dean's Scholarship as well (causing me to swerve off the road and almost kill my brother and I on our way home from work

. I gladly accepted the appointment after some brief consulting with the significant other, friends and family. I will be your classmate next year!!!...an SDN Mayo hopeful...literally one of the absolute last people accepted.
Congrats again, and I can't wait to meet you!!!
(I'll be the only guy talking about my roofing and construction experiences. lol)
Yay, roofer!

*virtual high five* Congrats! And thanks for coming out of the woodwork and posting! I definitely followed the Mayo thread and had hoped to be the MelissainSD this year, but didn't really think it would happen. I can't wait to meet her in person - she's my own SDN Mayo hero.
Thanks for sharing your acceptance story. I'm really glad I wasn't driving or I probably would have had a near accident as well. I had been hoping for so long to get that call, but a week or two ago I decided that I needed to let my Mayo dreams go. I even threw out all of my Mayo materials and booklets on
Monday, the day before I got in!
As for my acceptance call, I looked down and saw 507 on the screen of my phone, and I honestly couldn't believe what I was seeing. I was convinced it must be a mistake. For how many times I daydreamed about getting the call, the conversation was pretty embarrassing:
Me: (uncertainly) Uh....Hello?
Marcy: Hi, Phoenix. It's Marcy.
Me:
NO! You are NOT calling me!
Marcy: Actually I am. And I want to ask you something: How does it feel to have me call you for a change? Because I'm so used to you calling me!
Me: Oh my god! No! I don't believe it! It can't be. Wow. Thank you so much! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Wait. I think I'm getting ahead of myself. Umm..... Why are you calling?
Marcy: (laughing) Phoenix, I'm calling on behalf of.......
Pretty disgraceful, I know.

Had she called a week or two before I probably would have just screamed in glee. But I was so beyond hope at that point that all I could do was not believe it was real. In fact, when I woke up this morning, the first thing I did was run to my computer to check I didn't dream it all.... Anyway, just thought I'd share the silly details of my acceptance moment too. I always love reading about how people get the news they got into their dream school.
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And I can't wait to meet you in July! I'm going to PM you now to ask more about the roofing fiasco....
More importantly, what color pom-poms would you like?
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