Some people just say stuff before they think

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte

This is why many people send their smart kids to places like U. of Chicago, Swarthmore, Amherst, Georgetown, Williams, The Seven Sisters, etc. What you say may well apply to Michigan, UCLA, and the like, but not to the schools I listed and even not so much at Cal.

My friends and friends' children at Harvard make this complaint, but those attending Stanford or Cal Tech do not. Of course, Harvard is quite large whereas the two California schools are quite modest in size.

A student in the BYU honors program can be challenged quite nicely and receive a very adequate undergraduate experience.

As an anecdote, my neighbor has reared quite successful children and students.

Two of his sons both graduate summa cum laude out of the BYU Honors Program.

The younger son then attended a joint program out of Stanford Law and Harvard MPA. He was number 1 in law and I don't believe they rank the MPA stuff.

His other son is now at Harvard MBA. For academic types, this may not be impressive because it encompasses the dirty aspect of business, but upon querying both if they believed they were under-prepared for the rigors of either school, neither found their preparatory work inadequate.

The bottom line is, BYU cannot be all things, but it can prepare stundents to compete at the top schools; so either its student body must be more than average, or its pedagogical system is better than those who deride it. If it were so deficient, we would not place students in other graduate programs considered prestigious and significant.

It will always have limitations by being associated with a religious sponsor, but I suppose most students are okay with that.