Got accepted to both and went to BYUI

Both wanted a smaller school experience. Both found their programs were solid.

One said she felt the BYUI program of choice was better than the BYU program. Not sure if that was true, but she was convinced.
She recently graduated and loved her experience.

Yes, there are some who would prefer BYUI over BYU. Not many but a few.

I’ve said this in several posts over the past few days - BYUI is a much better option than UVU, especially for out of state students. But it seems many want to go to UVU to try to be as close to BYU as possible and to have the “BYU experience”.