I very much agree, that's one of the best things at Utah State is that the schools are very similar. When I was at Utah State, the LDS institute controlled Friday night, meaning that the school really didn't have any activities on Fridays, at the same time the school usually had something going on Saturdays and the institute didn't schedule anything on Fridays. Also Utah State is nice because we had a thing called free agency we got to live the gospel because we wanted too not because we had to or we would be in trouble with the Honor Code or kicked out of school. If someone is not lucky enough to get into BYU I always tell them to go to Utah State because of how strong the church is at the school.

Finally yes I wish I could have got into BYU, I'm not jealous in anyway, I will cheer for the Cougars all the time.