Going to college in Salt Lake City? Um nope! Here’s the deal: the air quality can be pretty lousy in winter, and the shrinking Great Salt Lake is worrying, especially if you have any family history of cancer. The city’s also heavily influenced by Mormon culture, which might feel limiting if you’re looking for a diverse and innovative vibe.

Salt Lake also has the highest per-capita number of plastic surgeons and the beauty standards placed on women (see Mormonism) are insane.

Pass!!!

We visited SLC and drove through U of U on the way to a museum. The city itself seemed very quiet and low key. Honestly, not much seemed to be going on. Denver and Boulder have MUCH more going on.

This could be good or bad, depending on the student.

Anonymous wrote:I now live in the mountain west - so so so many of the smartest kids in this region stay and go instate. Culturally it’s a thing to want to go to state school for many kids here, they think “why would I want to leave?” Also financially in state makes sense and is “normal” for a larger portion of the people here. We are double professional household and are encouraging in state college for our kids. Utah is well respected in the west.

This is the way it tends to be everywhere in the US except for the Northeast & Illinois.

SLC is what people think Denver is in terms of access to the outdoors. It's great.

I mean. Why?

I gave a talk there a few years ago. It is a super beautiful setting.

I now live in the mountain west - so so so many of the smartest kids in this region stay and go instate. Culturally it’s a thing to want to go to state school for many kids here, they think “why would I want to leave?” Also financially in state makes sense and is “normal” for a larger portion of the people here. We are double professional household and are encouraging in state college for our kids. Utah is well respected in the west.

It’s a great school for kids who are studious, outdoorsy, not competitive, not super religious (those go to the Y), and artsy. Kids work hard and get outdoors bs work hard part hard.

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

Why is that fun

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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.

BC is Boston College, I would imagine. Apparently blasting Catholics makes poster boards feel better about being an imbecile.

The U was ranked by WSJ above UCLA and AZ

The girlz there are incredible. Not ASU level, but way hotter than most people would think when they think Utah.

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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.

I went to HS in SLC and my dad was a prof at the U. We are not Mormon. “Dealing with the Mormon community”? Wow, you don’t know many Mormons do you. My HS was probably 50/50. So I had lots of Mormon friends. Yes. Rule it out if you can’t cope with people who have a different religion than you. But really, that’s sort of required do living in any college community.

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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 in 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.

And you no doubt consider yourself to be openminded.

Anonymous wrote:Thought of well by who? People in Utah or other western close-by states?

People who dislike plagiarism.