skgarcia,
I've been accepted to MAPH and I have a lower verbal than you. Have you been accepted, too? I have another offer, but I really would love to attend Chicago so am trying to find methods of funding. You're lucky to have parents that will fully fund you. Mine will help, but they won't pay all of it, so I'm hoping for a work-study or something of the like.
In the program application, it asks for a phone number that they can contact us with "around February 1st." My status is "awaiting program decision," too.