something he wrote in his essays. He is very much a free thinker, and is very philosophical, and does not always conform to standard LDS thinking. He probably freaked out the BYU admissions people when, among other things, he wrote about Buddha's teachings and how much he learned from them when we lived in China.

Anyway, after a mission and a couple of years at another great university, he re-applied and BYU admitted him this time. I told him not to mention Buddha in his essay this time (he served his mission in Cambodia), which probably helped. It's a good thing too, because he married a girl who was going to BYU; had he not gotten in, she would have had to transfer to his school.