I'm kinda glad people were willing to go to BYU/send their kids to BYU back in

Sep 30, 2014
1:07:06pm

hansel

the 60s and 70s when it was a joke junior college. Otherwise I guess it wouldn't be where it is now. Makes you wonder what the Church schools will be like 40 years from now.

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I'm kinda glad people were willing to go to BYU/send their kids to BYU back in

hansel

9/30/14 1:07pm

They'll say Harvard is the BYU of the East

mudpupper

9/30/14 1:08pm

It wasn't what it is today, but joke junior college isn't

gwalker

9/30/14 1:13pm

I'm deliberately exaggerating -- lots of folks consider BYUI to be just that

hansel

9/30/14 1:19pm

They do have a 97% acceptance rate, so almost

jrob30

9/30/14 1:21pm

Utah in the 40s:BYU in the 40s::BYU today:BUY-I today

jrob30

9/30/14 1:21pm

I think that's true. My MIL went to BYU in the 50s and she has a yearbook,

gwalker

9/30/14 2:31pm

BYUI in 40 years will just barely be allowing its students to wear shorts.

monkeycowboy

9/30/14 1:14pm

All because of global warming.

JAGA97

9/30/14 1:18pm

I expect BYU-I alums in the year 2056 to say how they'd never get in today

Linescratcher

9/30/14 1:20pm

on the other hand i'm grateful when sharp LDS kids also go non-BYU

run26

9/30/14 1:21pm

I seem to remember a Joseph Smith quote from the Truman G Madsen lecture series

goldy-loak

9/30/14 1:52pm

That doesn't all have to come from BYU improving. The more

gwalker

9/30/14 2:33pm

BYU's biggest academic growth period was during the 1970s under Dallin Oaks.

k2coug

9/30/14 8:03pm

probably had something to do with all the kids born in the 50s

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