(BYU-Provo) Please think twice before coming to BYU! I thought

How this student rated the school

Educational Quality	C	Faculty Accessibility	C
Useful Schoolwork	C	Excess Competition	F
Academic Success	C	Creativity/ Innovation	D
Individual Value	D	University Resource Use	B
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty	A	Friendliness	C
Campus Maintenance	A	Social Life	D
Surrounding City	D	Extra Curriculars	B
Safety	A

Describes the student body as: Afraid, Arrogant, Closeminded Describes the faculty as: Helpful, Arrogant

Female

ACT:28

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Quite Bright

Lowest Rating Excess Competition	F

Highest Rating Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty	A

She cares more about Excess Competition than the average student.

Date: Jun 19 2007
Major: PreMed and Medical (This Major's Salary over time)
Please think twice before coming to BYU! I thought I was making the right decision by coming here, but I've been miserable for these two years and am finally transferring elsewhere. If you do not devote your whole life to attending class, reviewing notes, and spending enormous blocks of time in the library, you will most likely get bad grades. It is not college. There is nothing to do in Provo, unless you like to go country line dancing or play board games. And I have never met a more close minded group of people in my life. It is amazing to see over 20,000 young adults follow rules so strictly and blindly accept their rigorous conservative backgrounds. And if you are a female in any program not traditionally female, professors and other students can make you terribly uncomfortable. Not to mention sunday school, relief society, and sacrament meeting speakers; who share how important it is for them to either have or be a wife that stays home with children and is not able to pursue higher education or other aspirations. If I had to start college over, I would definitely not come back to BYU. In fact, I could be graduating early here, but I cannot stand another day here so I'm getting out!

Responses

I am sorry you have had such a bad experience at BYU. Your right , students should think hard about attending, for precisely the reasons you indicate. The academics are demanding, and require time. Your ACT score indicates that you are bright, but I wonder if perhaps high school was so easy for you that you never really had to exert youreslf for grades. As for the closed minded students, I think you insult the majority of them. Most Chose the school for exactly the reasons you seem to detest it -strict moral and ethical principles.

My daughter graduated from BYU with her undergrad, now has here Master's (from elsewhere) and has begun her Doctorate. You are as uncomfortable as you allow others make you feel. Yes traditionally the church has been all about the wife as mother and homemaker, but that is changing as the importance of an education in today's reality becomes ever more apparent. I will warn you for what it is worth - I went to a very "good" school, excellent reputation, very rigorous academics. The beer, pot, sex and general "enlightenment" of the student body is not such a great thing. Watching a kid with an ACT of 33 throwing up all night from drinking hardly encourages rejection of a conservative background. As for female and uncomfortable at BYU, be prepared for an entirely new kind of uncomfortable at other schools. Alcohol does not make guys gentlemen. I will admit there is nothing to do in Provo, apart from some of the best skiing in the world, national parks to die for only hours away, one of the best campus libraries in the country, more social activites than any other college, but I forgot, they are attended by those closed minded conservative non-drinkers. boring. College, like life, is largely what you make it. If yours has been hell, maybe you should reconsider why.

I am a female and a freshman this year going into the major of Computer Science (obviously not a traditional female major). The professor of my intro CS class actually said on the first day

Ladies, I know there aren't a lot of you here, but I can assure you that this is an excellent major for you and we need you here. You will have many great opportunities in this field.

So I don't necessarily agree with your comment about that. I have only been treated with respect, and Computer Science is perhaps the most male-dominated major of all.
Also, I'm sorry you had a bad experience. I hope everything works out for you.

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