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Anonymous wrote:OP it has good medical programs, particularly Women's medicine.

There's no way this is true. Especially since all women are encouraged to just get married and have babies.

I agree the original information is off base. Disagree that LDS women are encouraged to just get married and have babies. This is not true of wealthy and UMC LDS women for the last 2 generations. Some may end up staying home with kids, but not without first getting a quality education.

It may depend on where you live -- most LDS in this area tend to be wealthy transplants, esp. compared to say, the Motherland (Utah) -- but I have found it to be true that the LDS women here do tend to be educated. Now, I can't think of a single one I know who works in anything more than a very flexible, family-oriented job (if working at all- most don't), so career women they are not, but they do value the educatio piece.

But yes, OP, there are more Mormons around here than you probably realize. My kids are at McLean HS and I know of many. And they all seem to go to BYU.

Anonymous wrote:Non-LDS athletes go to BYU

Non athletes go to every single college and university. What is your point?

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Anonymous wrote:It's very rare for students who are not LDS to go to BYU (only about 1% students are not LDS.)

I was thinking the same thing so I was incredibly surprised to see so many people from my kid's school committing to BYU. I didn't think that there were so many LDS families around here.

You are mistaken.
The truth is that the LDS community is very aware of the bias against them in “this area” so LDS kids tend to lay low about their status as church members.
But BYU is a great school and will be a wonderful opportunity for those kids!

There is no bias against mormons. Most people don't even know anything about mormons. Those that do generally think mormons are very nice people. They might not understand how mormons can believe some of the stuff they do, but I don't think anyone holds that against them.

Non-LDS athletes go to BYU

If you are not Mormon - you are only going to BYU because you can't get in anywhere else. It's easy street for other religions. Oh and great sports teams

Anonymous wrote:Maybe more and more mormons are moving to your kid's school. It'd probbably be more productive to ask someone like the guidance counselor AT your kid's school than a bunch of strangers who could be anywhere in the world and have no idea what school your kid attends.

It would be more productive to respond to a post if you had something to contribute. OP asked a simple question. No need for snarky useless replies.

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Anonymous wrote:It's very rare for students who are not LDS to go to BYU (only about 1% students are not LDS.)

I was thinking the same thing so I was incredibly surprised to see so many people from my kid's school committing to BYU. I didn't think that there were so many LDS families around here.

You are mistaken.
The truth is that the LDS community is very aware of the bias against them in “this area” so LDS kids tend to lay low about their status as church members.
But BYU is a great school and will be a wonderful opportunity for those kids!

There is a very active church on Hunter Mill so there are lots of kids at Madison who are LDS. Lots go to BYU every year from there.

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Anonymous wrote:OP it has good medical programs, particularly Women's medicine.

There's no way this is true. Especially since all women are encouraged to just get married and have babies.

I agree the original information is off base. Disagree that LDS women are encouraged to just get married and have babies. This is not true of wealthy and UMC LDS women for the last 2 generations. Some may end up staying home with kids, but not without first getting a quality education.

It is not incorrect. The director of laparoscopic hysterectomies at Johns Hopkins studied there after doing undergrad at UMD and medicine at GW. She is not the director of that speciality for no reason.

You people are morons full of generalizations based on zero information. So uninspiring.

BYU? this is what the web page says:
Dr. Vargas completed specialty training in the Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital integrated residency program in obstetrics and gynecology.

Bwa ha ha

This is very odd to me, because as someone pointed out BYU doesn't have medical school at all. How do you end up misreading one person's webpage and invent the idea that it not only exists, but is good in a particular field. It's such an insane way to be wrong.

NP. I can't stop laughing about this. I'm imagining PP going on vacation to Tampa/St. Pete and becoming indignant when they can't find the Hermitage Museum or the Mariinsky Ballet.

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Anonymous wrote:It's very rare for students who are not LDS to go to BYU (only about 1% students are not LDS.)

I was thinking the same thing so I was incredibly surprised to see so many people from my kid's school committing to BYU. I didn't think that there were so many LDS families around here.

You are mistaken.
The truth is that the LDS community is very aware of the bias against them in “this area” so LDS kids tend to lay low about their status as church members.
But BYU is a great school and will be a wonderful opportunity for those kids!

That's how it works everywhere. I went to HS in town founded by Mormons and still didn't realize how many people had ties.

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Anonymous wrote:It's very rare for students who are not LDS to go to BYU (only about 1% students are not LDS.)

I was thinking the same thing so I was incredibly surprised to see so many people from my kid's school committing to BYU. I didn't think that there were so many LDS families around here.

You are mistaken.
The truth is that the LDS community is very aware of the bias against them in “this area” so LDS kids tend to lay low about their status as church members.
But BYU is a great school and will be a wonderful opportunity for those kids!

+1. Lay low is right. I was astonished when I went to a ward meeting as a potential recruit and found our head cheerleader there. I had known her for ten years and never knew she was LDS

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Anonymous wrote:BYU is a fascinating place. Many seniors are married--look at a sports roster for any of their sports and read the bios of seniors. Well over 50% will have spouses--almost all met at BYU.

Mormons don't approve of sex outside of marriage so many get married at 19/20--even the super educated ones who will go on to top medical schools, law schools, etc.

No, they aren't getting married at 19/20 because they are FIRST doing 2 year mission trips for men and 18 months for women. Over half of the BYU football team has served a two year mission - this season it was over 60 players. The average age of a BYU football player is 21.7 years old. So many seniors at BYU are graduating at age 24. So they aren't getting married at 19/20 it is more like 22-24 when they are juniors or seniors.

This is correct.
The men are typically 23/24.
The women are getting married at 20/21.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this Mclean? There have been a bunch of byu posts on Instagram in recent days but yes, I believe all the kids are Mormon as you would expect.

Yes - it is McLean! I was so surprised to see all of these BYU commits. I just didn't realize that the school was so popular for McLean.

There is a very active LDS ward RIGHT THERE off Great Falls and Idylwood.

Not sure how familiar Non-LDS families are with how this works, but in LDS communities you are “assigned” to a ward based on where you live (sort of how the Catholics used to assign you to the nearest parish—but the Catholics don’t really stick to that so much anymore). But with LDS there are actual boundaries and you need to live within the boundary of the ward to go there.
Similar to how families will purposely choose their home based on the school boundaries of a school they want to attend, LDS families who move to this area first identify a ward (equivalent to Protestant church) that they want to attend and then will move into that boundary area. So yes there are a lot of LDS kids at McLean bc the ward that is nearby is a highly desirable/active one for families in our area.

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Anonymous wrote:It's very rare for students who are not LDS to go to BYU (only about 1% students are not LDS.)

I was thinking the same thing so I was incredibly surprised to see so many people from my kid's school committing to BYU. I didn't think that there were so many LDS families around here.

You are mistaken.
The truth is that the LDS community is very aware of the bias against them in “this area” so LDS kids tend to lay low about their status as church members.
But BYU is a great school and will be a wonderful opportunity for those kids!

Forgot to add that is really easy to defer at BYU for a mission trip. You apply, get accepted then defer for two years if you are male. The University of Utah also has an easy process for deferments.

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Anonymous wrote:OP it has good medical programs, particularly Women's medicine.

There's no way this is true. Especially since all women are encouraged to just get married and have babies.

I agree the original information is off base. Disagree that LDS women are encouraged to just get married and have babies. This is not true of wealthy and UMC LDS women for the last 2 generations. Some may end up staying home with kids, but not without first getting a quality education.

It is not incorrect. The director of laparoscopic hysterectomies at Johns Hopkins studied there after doing undergrad at UMD and medicine at GW. She is not the director of that speciality for no reason.

You people are morons full of generalizations based on zero information. So uninspiring.

BYU? this is what the web page says:
Dr. Vargas completed specialty training in the Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital integrated residency program in obstetrics and gynecology.

Bwa ha ha

This is very odd to me, because as someone pointed out BYU doesn't have medical school at all. How do you end up misreading one person's webpage and invent the idea that it not only exists, but is good in a particular field. It's such an insane way to be wrong.

It was me. I'm actually going blind (genuinely) and making this kind of mistake. I'm really sorry.