<p>Today I received an envelope from BHP telling me that I got waitlisted. Does anybody know how many people get waitlisted and how many get admitted? This was a real blow to the ego seeing how the acceptance rate for BHP (around 18%) is higher than some of the other schools I'm applying to. :(</p>
<p>Also, does anyone know the acceptance rate for other Honors programs? </p>
<p>BHP Parents’ Newsletter </p>
<p>Dear Parents:
Recently I had a conversation with a fellow who despaired about the future of the world. It’s not hard to find newspaper headlines about young people doing knuckleheaded things, so his sentiment was neither unfounded nor surprising.
But there’s also a bright side, as I’ve been reminded over the past few weeks, spending a couple of hours most days deeply engaged in the admissions process for BHP. Our staff has the burden, and the privilege, of going through more than 1250 applications as we try to find the 110 students or so who will make up the BHP Class of 2018.
This is difficult work because virtually every one of the 1250 applicants is a fabulous student and a really good person. We could choose the class by throwing darts at a board and admit a class that would make UT proud. But that’s not how we do it. We aim to admit the cream of the crop, meaning that the students we admit will average in the top 2% of their high school class and will score in the top 2% of the SAT or ACT. And they will average five leadership positions at their schools.
To read these applications is to realize that there are many, many young men and young women out there whom we would all be pleased to call our own. Not only are they excellent scholars (and, frequently, athletes, musicians, dancers, and much more), they also have volunteered hundreds of hours of their time to make their schools and communities a better place. Many of them have created NGOs that are already concretely improving society.
And they wish to come to the BHP not just to prepare themselves for lucrative careers, but also to position themselves for a lifetime of service. What we see in these applications is reflected in a recent Deloitte Consulting survey which found that the current generation tends to emphasize social challenges over economic ones. They believe that social equality, education, and safety are more important than financial well-being. They volunteer, they donate to charities, and they want to work for companies that act ethically. With this attitude, and the energy and talent we see in these applications, the future is so bright that we may all </p>