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5/31/09

Graduate School

For those of you who don't know, I have been planning on attending Graduate School. In order to sit for the CPA exam, I need 150 college credit hours. Since a normal undergraduate degree can be done in 120-130 hours, this often requires graduate school to acquire the necessary credits. Such is my situation.

After applying to a few graduate schools, I was accepted to three: Utah State University, University of Idaho, and Brigham Young University. It was a bit of a tough decision for me because BYU has one of the best accounting programs in the nation and U of I offered me a very generous scholarship. In the end, Stephanie and I felt best about attending University of Idaho. So we are going to be living in Moscow, Idaho (no not Russia) for the next year.

We will be moving there in June and are going to try to find summer jobs. I am also going to take some classes online this summer so my course load will be easier and I can complete everything by the end of next May. This also gets us out of the warm Vegas summer. I always wanted to experience an Idaho summer.

Goodbye Vegas, hello Moscow.

2 comments:

Heather Gerry said...

Good luck with that! Ryan was lucky and had enough hours to sit without taking any extra classes. He has passed 2 so far and just took another one a week ago. His next one is in about 1 month. Then starts graduate schools so he can get enough hours to actually earn his CPA.

GOOD LUCK to you both - it's hard to find time to spend with each other with all that studying!

Melody said...

Wow, congratulations! If you're going to drive by here (haha, yeah right), let us know! We love seeing you guys!