do you have to be mormon to run at BYU?

Followup BYU Student wrote:

waste of time wrote:

How do you feel about having to take many, many credits of a religion that you have studied for thousands and thousands of hours through Sunday school and more? Don't you think that you already had a very good foundation before all those byu classes? Are byu students particularly dense and need additional courses on their religion above those many years of Sunday school and seminary and home study? Wouldn't you rather spend those course hours learning how to be a better engineer, assuming that you already knew how to be a good mormon? Also, why no beards? Brigham Young certainly had a beard. So Brigham Young would be expelled from his namesake school? Also, what about all the "soaking" and "humping" that goes on. Aren't they honor code violations and aren't you required to rat out your fellow students for doing them?

I personally love my religion classes. I'm taking one about the Old Testament and you will never, ever, be "finished" in your learning about faith. I've found that the more I dive into it, the more I get, regardless of how many hours I've already put in.

No, BYU students are not particularly dense. While BYU is no Ivy leaguer, it's ranked pretty highly in a lot of aspects.

The beards thing is essentially the idea that students should look presentable and "neat and clean" as the honor code states. While many beards would be fine by that criteria, I think the honor code wants to prevent against the wild 2 foot long type beards. There's a lot of people who don't like this aspect of the honor code, but it is what it is.

As to so called "soaking" and "humping" the answer is that it does not happen. I've seen this brought up many many times, and in all my 3 years at BYU, I've never heard of any such instance of it. To me, and many others, it's pretty clear cut, if you're "soaking" or "humping" you are clearly violating the law of chastity that we believe has been given to us. I think that those who would participate in those kinds of activities either: Don't go to BYU, or just have sex and probably end up getting kicked out.

Cougar Country wrote:

Followup BYU Student wrote:

I personally love my religion classes. I'm taking one about the Old Testament and you will never, ever, be "finished" in your learning about faith. I've found that the more I dive into it, the more I get, regardless of how many hours I've already put in.

No, BYU students are not particularly dense. While BYU is no Ivy leaguer, it's ranked pretty highly in a lot of aspects.

The beards thing is essentially the idea that students should look presentable and "neat and clean" as the honor code states. While many beards would be fine by that criteria, I think the honor code wants to prevent against the wild 2 foot long type beards. There's a lot of people who don't like this aspect of the honor code, but it is what it is.

As to so called "soaking" and "humping" the answer is that it does not happen. I've seen this brought up many many times, and in all my 3 years at BYU, I've never heard of any such instance of it. To me, and many others, it's pretty clear cut, if you're "soaking" or "humping" you are clearly violating the law of chastity that we believe has been given to us. I think that those who would participate in those kinds of activities either: Don't go to BYU, or just have sex and probably end up getting kicked out.

That must why many BYU students get married so young.

Last year's BYU football that played Southern Methodist University in the New Mexico Bowl had 30 players on the roster than were married vs zero (0) players married for SMU.

Link:www.deseret.com/2022/12/15/23511838/by...

Curious, does anyone know the divorce rate for LDS couples?