thoughts on University of Utah?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you live in the west or west coast, Utah and LDS are very accepted. A friend who went to BYU and lives in New York said they have felt that others do not respect the degree. Granted, it's BYU, not UofU but I think west and east are different in that meeting LDS people is not as common. Lots of LDS live in AZ, CO, CA, ID, NV and HI.

I have known many LDS people and had a couple of close friends. They were very nice people and mainstream, very ambitious and successful. However, there is always an attempt to convert you. It's just there. It doesn't matter to me, but I do think it can become a barrier in friendships and I think it would be unusual to marry outside the faith.

Marrying outside the faith was how I left the faith without losing my close friends and family. It was easier for them to accept that I’m not active because my spouse doesn’t believe.

[Anonymous]

Friend’s kid attended as a freshman last year, liked it pretty well, but decided to transfer in part because he got tired of being asked constantly to participate in LDS activities / convert. It was OK, not a bad experience, but one year was enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you live in the west or west coast, Utah and LDS are very accepted. A friend who went to BYU and lives in New York said they have felt that others do not respect the degree. Granted, it's BYU, not UofU but I think west and east are different in that meeting LDS people is not as common. Lots of LDS live in AZ, CO, CA, ID, NV and HI.

I have known many LDS people and had a couple of close friends. They were very nice people and mainstream, very ambitious and successful. However, there is always an attempt to convert you. It's just there. It doesn't matter to me, but I do think it can become a barrier in friendships and I think it would be unusual to marry outside the faith.

BYU is a great school for accounting, but outside of this major I do understand folks reaction as you noted.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you live in the west or west coast, Utah and LDS are very accepted. A friend who went to BYU and lives in New York said they have felt that others do not respect the degree. Granted, it's BYU, not UofU but I think west and east are different in that meeting LDS people is not as common. Lots of LDS live in AZ, CO, CA, ID, NV and HI.

I have known many LDS people and had a couple of close friends. They were very nice people and mainstream, very ambitious and successful. However, there is always an attempt to convert you. It's just there. It doesn't matter to me, but I do think it can become a barrier in friendships and I think it would be unusual to marry outside the faith.

BYU is a great school for accounting, but outside of this major I do understand folks reaction as you noted.

BYU law is ranked 22 - Cravath, Davis and Polk other NY firms attend on campus interviews and hire. BYU grads also do well in finance in NY. Goldman hires (NY and SLC).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The admissions rate is very high, but from what I’ve researched, it is a very well thought of school. Kid is an outdoorsy type so looking at this as well as Vermont and Colorado schools.

You want your kid to deal with the mormon community daily?

Utah large state school no where near the same as university of co or Vermont.

Yes your kid if very confident in Their own beliefs could go but why in the world would you waste oos tuition on Utah? Wasteful and dumb financially.

This is really ignorant. Look, I’m not LDS and I’ve worked in companies dominated by that religion and dealt with all of the negatives of its cliqueishness, power and insularity. And the faith is antithetical to mine. But it’s gross that people say things about the religion that they would never say about other religions (except maybe Islam and Catholicism?!) and act like that’s different and ok. And honestly, the LDS people I know are energetic, kind and hard-working. They might drive me nuts and I’ll never be fully accepted into their inner circles, but there are far worse people to deal with daily.

Very revealing statement.

I hear you but LDS actively try to convert. Catholicism and Muslims, not really at all

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:LDS teens are kinda great. They're adventurous, they are go-getters, they're hard workers, they actually date, they travel .. they have a lot of freedom bcs their parents dont have a lot of concern about the usual vice potholes.

Not a lot of diversity, but if my kid wanted to backpack through Europe with any one kind of kids, I'd be happy if they were mormon kids.

I think all religion is totally weird, but LDS is not more off-putting to me thank, say, the BC crowd.

What's BC? Also I agree about Mormons being nice wholesome kids, but if your an ice cold hustler who just likes to hook up, it's probably not happening with the Mormon girls.

You'd be surprised. I grew up in an area with a sizable LDS community. Most were very straight-laced per the stereotype, but the wild ones were next-level *wild*.

[Anonymous]

Utah State is a good school for STEM degrees and is in a small town (Logan) slightly south of Idaho.

The one quirk there is that the US route over the pass in/out of town sometimes gets clobbered by snow. So 4WD and chains sometimes are needed to get over the pass.

[Anonymous]

They’re also on the western exchange so a lot of west coast students get reduced tuition.

[Anonymous]

Co-workers son attends on western exchange. He likes it, he’s a major skiier and it’s easier to get to good skiing than CU Boulder. He has friends even though he’s out of state and not Mormon.

[Anonymous]

We toured it last year and I liked the U. My son ultimately choose a different school partly due to costs. It was a bit pricey and the flights back and forth aren’t cheap. He didn’t want to have to stay through that first summer to get in-state residency. It was very pretty there. Definitely for outdoorsy kids, which my son is, but he felt like he’d need a car to do those things. Also when we toured in Feb it was freezing cold.

[Anonymous]

fun fact about uofu: it has one of the best and most competitive ballet programs in the country

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Co-workers son attends on western exchange. He likes it, he’s a major skiier and it’s easier to get to good skiing than CU Boulder. He has friends even though he’s out of state and not Mormon.

Slc is the city Denver thinks it is

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We toured it last year and I liked the U. My son ultimately choose a different school partly due to costs. It was a bit pricey and the flights back and forth aren’t cheap. He didn’t want to have to stay through that first summer to get in-state residency. It was very pretty there. Definitely for outdoorsy kids, which my son is, but he felt like he’d need a car to do those things. Also when we toured in Feb it was freezing cold.

Slc airport is very nice tho by American standards

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:fun fact about uofu: it has one of the best and most competitive ballet programs in the country

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[Anonymous]

DC applied and was accepted quickly OOS (with the WUE tuition exchange). They sent a ton of nice swag! He ended up not going, but one good thing is the light rail goes directly from Salt Lake Airport to the campus.