Congrats! Every point feels like 100 and you're entitled to celebrate each one!!
The key thing is time... as long as your doing something to move things along.... it takes time for things to right themselves....
it can take 30 or more days for a change to show up... but it will....
Credit is a marathon not a sprint....
-J
So I was checking my credit report on EX yesterday, and I noticed that they put the "Account information disputed by consumer: meets FCRA" notation on the medical collections. I think this is a result of the letter I sent to the company requesting deletion in exchange for pay in full. I stated that I was unsure that the account was mine (to prevent resetting of the SOL), and was only able to find the account number by looking at my credit report (true). I elaborated that I was moving at the time of the "delinquency" and did not receive any notification by mail about it (all true, I really didn't get anything in the mail--I just assumed it was probably mine because of the timing of everything and the info on my credit report). I guess they took the ball and ran with it, though, and interpreted it as a dispute letter.
Not sure whether they have reading comprehension issues, or they're just trying to cover their butts. 
In any event, I plan to send them another letter if I don't hear back from them by the 13th. I have it all typed up and prepared, emphasizing the "spirit of compromise" and willingness to pay in full. Hopefully my different (and slightly more monosyllabic) wording will help.
In other news, the telecom collections dispute is still ongoing--due to be finished on the 21st with TU. As each day goes by, I'm getting more hopefull that they will find that it isn't mine, which I seriously believe is true. I didn't even have an account with that telecom company back in 2013, so it obviously could not be mine! I've been spreading the news to everyone at work that they need to check their credit reports because they will probably find errors, like I did. And this collections is not the only error--for instance, the bank I have my car loan with reported my lates wrongly. I had two months in which I was late, and they reported it as 30 days, then 90 days! Well, that's wrong, because 30+30=60, not 90. That's the next thing I'm going to dispute, but I was thinking of calling the bank up and talk to someone about it, to see if they can correct it with all agencies, instead of me having to file separate disputes with TU, EX, and EQ. The bank has been good to me, even when I was going through a rough spot.
Also, paying aggressively on BofA, will probably have the balance down to $500 by the end of the month. Then, watch out Citi credit card balance, I'm coming for you!
I'm curious what your degree and job is, if you don't mind sharing.
Not the most encouraging day, but I'm not going to let it get me down.
The dispute with EX, which I started a couple of days ago, over the telecom collections was finished today, and the results were not in my favor: "verified as accurate." I get this funny feeling that they simply called up the CA and asked "Hey, do you have an account for Ms. X?" And the CA said "yup." And that was that. So, I have a nice, polite DV letter I'm going to send to the CA tomorrow requesting all the documentation.
TU dispute is still ongoing, set to be done by June 21st. Hopefully this one will stick.
I called up my car loan provider to question those 30-90 day lates. I spoke to a very nice lady on the phone who calculated the days and found the reporting was accurate. So that won't be changed. She also added that they do not do GW removals of accurate reporting (I didn't ask about it, because I figured they wouldn't anyway), unless the reporting of lates was due to their issue--for example, losing a check or misapplying a payment. Fair enough, I'll continue to make my payments on time and go from there.
Sent my (2nd) GW letter to the medical collections today. Should get there friday. Part of me was tempted to add a "PS: do you want the money or not?" but I didn't. 
On the brighter side:
The myFICO simulations all say that if I simply pay down my debt by $6000, that will bump my scores up to the next level. I figure that's going to happen by the end of next month! I know it's just a simulation, but when I've run them before my real scores have been in a few standard deviations of what the simulation said. So that's encouraging!
Also, on one of my new credit cards, they added the annual fee right away. Not a problem, but I haven't received my card yet so I can't pay it online. I called the CC company up and paid over the phone, as I was worrying that I would end up with a late payment. Now I can relax a bit instead of worrying.
All in all, just staying organized and paying all my bills on time. And going through my credit reports with a fine-toothed comb.
Okay, now I'm super-confused. I checked CK today to check my TU dispute status, and it showed the telecom collections as "closed," the interest that was accrued for the month was removed, and the account does not appear under "collections." However, the dispute is still ongoing until the 21st. What does this mean? Is this something that the CA has to do during the dispute process--close the account, stop adding interest? Or are they getting ready to just delete the account? Or are they sending it back to the OC (good luck with that becasue I didn't have an account with the OC in 2013) because I'm being such a stinker? Nothing has updated with myFICO concerning it, but my FAKO TU went up 49 pts on account of this.
I held off on sending that DV letter today because of this news, not because I'm afraid they'll be able to validate it, but because I didn't want to add anymore complexity to the situation.
What do you guys think? Does the fact that the CA closed the account mean anything, or is it just a thing they have to do during the process. (Google has produced nothing in this regard to enhance my knowledge)
Thanks in advance!