mw834 (2022-2023)

- Honors College
- Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona (#10 ranked public business school, #18 overall)
- Director of a summer camp for past 3 years
- Worked on a US Senator's campaign this year
- Pi Alpha Alpha honorary (equivalent to Phi Beta Kappa, but for Public Policy students)
- Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity (pledge class president)
- College Republicans
- Eller Scholars
- Won Grant Writing Competition at the Eller College of Management
- Strong recommendations from a law professor, my boss on the campaign, and a GTown PhD who works as the chief of staff for the Senator

Added after the application process:
- Gamma Sigma Alpha honorary
- Phi Kappa Phi honorary
- Received outstanding senior award from Eller (Highest GPA in my major)
- Nominated for Honors College award
- Completed my senior honors thesis

- Applied Early Action to Georgetown, online status check says that the decision has been sent, still waiting on it
- Applied for a joint degree (JD/MPP) from GT and Duke

12/30 - Got my letter from Gtown finally - got deferred. I suppose it could have been worse - I saw that it was in a white envelope and just assumed I was doomed.

2/15 - Received an e-mail from Duke telling me that I've been waitlisted. Well crap.

2/23 - I'm going to law school! Got a large thick envelope from U of Illinois with a letter of acceptance and an info book. Letter is dated 2/16/07.

2/24 - Received a small standard size envelope from Notre Dame informing me that they've put me on their "provisional list." Crap again.

2/26 - GULC status tracker went to decision again after the deferral.

3/2 - Admitted to Georgetown's MPP program via email. I applied for the JD/MPP program, so I'm halfway there. Now I just need to pray extra hard that I get into the JD program.

3/3 - Son of a bitch...reject from GULC sent to my home address. Dammit.

3/5 - UVa online status check went to decision. Here comes another rejection.

3/8 - Somewhat surprised to find a cream colored letter from UVa in my mailbox that did not read rejection. They've added me to their non-resident waitlist.

3/10 - Received a really nice binder with info from U of I.

3/16 - Letter from GW telling me I'm on their waitlist. I hate being a splitter.

3/28 - Decided today to withdraw from GW and ND. I really don't think I'd attend either of them over Illinois, not for the money difference anyway. Staying on at Duke and UVa though.

4/17 - A 5th waitlist for me this cycle, this one from UCLA in a small snail mail envelope addressed 4/12. I'll stay on it for now, but I'm not too happy about it. I expected it, but I had really hoped otherwise.