<p>**Decision: WAITLISTED **</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] ACT: 30/31 (superscore)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 780 US History, 650 Literature, 640 Math I
[<em>] APs: 5 US History, 4 Macroeconomics, 4 English Language & Composition
[</em>] GPA: 3.3
[<em>] Rank: school does not rank
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: founded summer camp for middle schoolers at my school, founded quiz bowl team, founded legal document database at Baltimore public libraries, founded political discussion club, tennis, squash
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: catering staff
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): all amazing, Common App about my relationship with books and strained relationship with certain members of family, Chicago essays mostly about interest in economics, book essay about Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom (my actual favorite book of all time)
[</em>] Teacher Recs: amazing: one from advisor and other from Euro/US history teacher
[<em>] Counselor Rec: amazing
[</em>] Applied on: Regular Decision
[<em>] Hook (if any): URM
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Maryland
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Private preparatory
[</em>] Ethnicity: African-American
[li] Gender: male[/li][/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: </p>
<p>I wish the best of luck to those who got in. You guys are going to the best university in the world. I’ll just get my taste of Chicago for business school. See you then Professor Becker. </p>
<p>The waitlist usually translates into a rejection but I’ll try and hope that I can change that.</p>