<p>Trying to gage how important the dinner for newly admitted BHP students. My son has a conflict that night. He’ll call to find out more this week, but for anyone who has attended one, is it just a meet and greet or an opportunity to learn more about the details of what to expect in the coming months?</p>
<p>The bhp dinner is simply a recruitment dinner, and a nice gesture to the parents. It’s been months, but my mom still goes on about how sincere it was. She’s heavily advocating for me to attend haha. It was basically an opportunity to meet a select few of prospective classmates/alumni, be told how amazing the admits were, and how if bhp was its own business school, based solely off of rank and SAT scores, it would be ranked number one. That sort of thing. BHP is a very well known program in the business world. If there’s anyway y’all can make it, definitely go.</p>
<p>Thanks for the insight!</p>
<p>So you’re saying this would be a parent/student thing, right? I got an invitation, and I was just debating on whether to bring my parent since it would be awkward and what not to be the only one with them (or vice versa, the only one without).</p>
<p>when and where is this dinner? I got my phone call a few weeks ago, but am out of state so maybe it’s something local? </p>
<p>Other schools by me do this locally. Hoping that is the case?</p>
<p>also has anyone heard how many have been accepted into BHP for next fall?</p>
<p>There are various bhp dinners throughout the state, so it typically is a local thing. At the same time, not everyone gets invited to these dinners (I knew a friend in my region who was accepted to bhp, but was not invited to a dinner). I believe the dinners are reserved for the top candidates they would like to recruit. If you were invited to the dinner, you should have received a phone call and a follow-up email, but since you are OOS, this is probably why they didn’t extend the invitation. So don’t worry about it:) As for the number of admits, the fb group still lingers at ~50, though this is inclusive of the student recruiters/staff, and the majority of the group was admitted back in december.</p>
<p>Thanks for your response. Certainly not within driving distance for me. Interesting your friend didn’t get an invite and in-state.</p>
<p>My daughter was told about the dinner during her acceptance phone call on the 16th. She just got the actual invitation in her big envelope yesterday.</p>
<p>There’s a poster who is particularly knowledgeable about BHP–I hope he/she will address the suggestion there is a class system within BHP. I have never heard of such a thing! Inviting some kids from a locale but not others sends a bad message. IMO. There are less obvious ways to rush a top recruit. </p>
<p>I think it is understandable to not extend dinner invitations to OOS students who’ve been admitted to BHP. (Although it’s short-sighted. Again, IMO, it would be better if someone called, explained the dinner circuit/dates and gave the OOS student the option to fly in for it if they wanted to participate.)</p>