Tia's home for a few years...

So a few years back Tia was contemplating her future and decided 1) she wanted to be a pharmacist and 2) she was going to attend the University of Utah

I was good with all of the above and we went about our merry way making sure she was on track to get accepted into the U and we got information and we went on tours and all was on track for the U to be "the choice" until a few months ago. While attending a college fair we randomly went to the SUU presentation. I say we went because SUU is a valid choice of schools in Utah. Tia said something entirely different about "why" we should go to the presentation. I shall leave it up to her to tell what that reason was . So we went to the presentation and got into a lovely conversation about the fact that you could go to almost any University in the state and be able to apply to Pharmacy School, but there's a little known fact that SUU has a great program to actually help to get you accepted into Pharmacy School. Not to mention its about the same distance from home as the U, a much smaller town (which would make me feel A LOT better anyhow) and the costs are less, and the class sizes aren't so ginormous. We looked into the school more, I read A LOT, then we went on a campus tour where we ended up lucking into being able to visit with the Dean of Science. The campus has nothing on the U's but everything else about the SUU experience won us over. Ok, won Tia over. I was already rooting for SUU from all my research :-)

Tia ended up getting accepted into every university she applied to, including the University of Utah, but in the end she chose to start her post High School educational path at Southern Utah University. So in, what seems like, a few short months Tia will be moving to Cedar and becoming a Thunderbird to do her undergraduate studies before applying to Pharmacy School.
Which may be at the U, may be somewhere else. We have some time before that point.