As a former ybU-p student, I too must concur with UteFanatic and BD. I was from out-of-state, so I didn’t know any better. All I knew was that my dad was ybU alum, and ybU tuition was cheap. My primary exposure to the University of Utah was what I’d heard from fellow students. Ideas such as…
1. The reason why students at the U hate the Y, was because their application to the Y was rejected.
2. A degree from the University of Utah was worthless.
3. Most students never even graduate.
4. Students are always going to class drunk.
5. University professors teach anti-Mormon propaganda.
And of course, ybU-p is the “Harvard of the West”.
[* Eat your hearts out Stanford, CalTech, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, USC, UWa, UCSD, UCSB, UC-Davis, Pepperdine, Pomona, Santa Clara, et al *]
And then I shortly discover what a bunch of whiney, classless, hypocritical, peac**ks and liars they are, and I wind up transferring to the U — where I’d never heard ONE university professor preach any anti-Mormon rhetoric. Nor had I seen any students stumbling into the classroom under any degree of inebriation (there were some “hungover” students, but it’s not like it was a frequent occurrence, nor does it qualify as “drunk”). I never met ONE student who claimed s/he was attending the U because they failed to get into to ybU-p, but I had met MULTIPLE students who’d transferred to the U FROM ybU-p. I’d also met students with full-ride scholarships to both schools, but chose the U anyway, due to its medical program, and superior STEM programs. My degree didn’t turn out to be worthless, and both the U and the Y have similar graduation rates.
Those myths about Utah continue to live on because that’s what the Freshmen are told, and with most students coming from out-of-state, it’s the only thing they know. And ybU students always believe everything they’re told. #Suckers
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