Yesterday Kaitlyn went for her interview at the OU Health Sciences Center. She looked amazing in her outfit with her black heels on. She dwarfed me! It didn't turn out so good in the end, however. They told her when she got there that she was lacking one class (which she knew and was planning on taking in summer school). The catch was she had to have completed it by SPRING semester. They told her to go ahead and do the interviews, take the tour, etc. She was devastated. She said she cried through her first interview. I can't believe that the people who are running the program even invited her up there for an interview! Did they not look over her transcript BEFORE sending out the letter? So this changes up several things and opens different options (what, I'm not sure yet). First, you only enter the program in the Fall semester - so this puts her off until Fall 2012. That means two more semesters of ???? classes including the microbiology class she was supposed to have taken. I don't know who to fault here - her advisor, who should have known this little prerequisite, or Kaitlyn, who changed her schedule around last fall so she wasn't taking two sciences at the same time, or me for not grabbing control of the whole situation and micro-managing it. She has to go to school and take a full load to keep her scholarship, might as well get a degree while she's at it.
Other options she may have are: just stay at the main campus and get a degree in zoology (what can she do with that?) This kind of messes up the living situation for the upcoming year. She and Michael and Kristen had it all planned out that they were moving to the city in May and all 3 living together. Okay, so maybe Kristen and Michael will share an apartment and Kaitlyn will visit a lot! Or if she gets her schedule set up right, she'd come down on certain days of the week for classes and stay with us but still live in the city with Michael.
Apply to another school (Baylor? - not sure how much out of state would be on that one!!!) and she would have to leave Michael here (don't think that will happen).
Change her major (again).
It's tough - she had the grades (3.92 overall GPA), the observation hours completed, the great letters of recommendation, and all the classes but one. Life is a school of hard knocks, but it's tough on the mom of someone who does the right thing, studies hard, has all the skills, and wants to excel. I just have to keep telling myself that this is a "Significant Learning Opportunity" for Kaitlyn. I believe things happen for a reason and I have to believe that God has a better plan for her and will help her figure it out over the next several months.
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