It's Official: I'm going to Medical School in the Fall

I received my acceptance letter to Fatima College of Medicine. I still need to finish some prerequisites before entering first year medical school, and I will try to finish them at TCC community college. Since I am a non-traditional student, I am taking a non-traditional route to become a physician. I felt that I should go enter medical school as soon as possible. I really can't wait two years to try to get accepted into a U.S. medical school.

Since my fiasco at the Saipan Consulate, I decided to just take a trip to the Philippines and speak to the Dean of the Fatima College of Medicine so they could hold my spot. It was a very interesting trip. I met some students, I visited the Anatomy Lab, and I spoke with a few of the faculty. I was very impressed with the program and I can see myself in Valenzula for the next 3 years. I spoke to the Dean who had some concerns about my age, but after speaking with her, she signed my acceptance letter conditioned on submitting an authenticated transcript by the Philippine Embassy opposed to the sealed and certified transcript I submitted.

I am still going to take a few classes in Community College this summer since I have been out of school so long. I also need to make sure everything is okay with my FAFSA application.

I'm not going to say too much because I still need a student visa.

I haven't been posting in a while because I was trying to make a few bucks on webanswers, but that hasn't been working so well lately. I should have posted this before, but I still wasn't able to get all my documents authenticated from the Philippine Consulate in Saipan. I was told that I was "manipulating documents" after following exactly what they told me to do. They gave me a difficult time despite the Attorney General of the CNMI issuing a United States government seal authenticating my transcript, and diploma. The Attorney General did gave me a difficult time authenticating my College of William and Mary diploma since it was written entirely in Latin. It think it may have helped that the former Attorney General was a William and Mary grad.

I asked for a copy of the proper procedure to authenticate my documents and they were never producted. I later returned to the  Saipan Consulate with the instructions from the New York Philippine Consulate website and they still told me that despite doing everything by the book, they still couldn't authenticate my diploma and transcript since they weren't from Saipan. This makes absolutely no sense.

I still am undecided whether to have my parents try to get everything authenticated at the Embassy in D.C. or to try to do it myself in May when I get back to VA.