BETHANY STUDENT RECEIVES EARLY MEDICAL SCHOOL ACCEPTANCE

              Bethany College student Mariah Crumbaker, a senior biology major, has been granted early acceptance to University of Kansas medical school. She will start in the fall of 2007.

            Crumbaker was one of approximately 1,500 students to apply at KU for medical school and will be part of a freshman class of 175.

            She is leaving her options of a specialty open, but is interested in obstetrics/ gynecology and cardiology.

            Crumbaker believes that her experience at Bethany College gave her an advantage when applying for medical school. Because of the small class sizes, “your professors get to know you on a personal level and that helps them in advising you on how to achieve your goals,” she said.

            Crumbaker has been interested in medicine since she was five years old. She grew up on her family’s hog farm near Beloit and got to see veterinarians perform autopsies on the pigs. “That amazed me and sparked my interest in medicine,” she said.          

            Since high school Crumbaker has worked as a certified nurses’ aide at various hospitals. She now works at Lindsborg Community Hospital.

            At Bethany Crumbaker has been active in Tri Beta and the Bio-Chem Club.

            Crumbaker is the daughter of David and Rebecca Crumbaker and attended Beloit Junior-Senior High School.