<p>I am a senior and still editing down my college list. I love BYU because of its academic rigor, tuition, location, and atmosphere (low key, not a party school). The thing is that the honor code bans tea- I LOVE TEA. I get that they aren't that big on caffeine and that tea and coffee are banned, but if I bring tea bags and heat up some water in a microwave will I get in trouble? What if I am off campus and at a coffee shop? Drinking tea at home and a relative puts a picture of that on Facebook? How serious is the school about this because this is my deciding factor about applying... </p>
<p>Don’t worry about the tea. That’s a pimple on a much larger question. BYU has a very religious and socially restrictive atmosphere in general. Most non-Mormons go nuts there.</p>
<p>I live and teach in Utah. The sweet, naive, intensely religious Mormon kids who come to my school choose it (partly) because it is less restrictive than BYU. They don’t want curfews. They don’t want to obsess over the length of their shorts. The guys want to go a day without shaving.</p>
<p>Thank you! Is the clothing restrictions that bad though? From what I understood there is no designated length of shorts or skirts- just modest & cleanly dressed.</p>
<p>Knee-length. Red more [url="<a href="http://registrar.byu.edu/catalog/2014-2015ucat/GeneralInfo/HonorCode.php"]here[/url">http://registrar.byu.edu/catalog/2014-2015ucat/GeneralInfo/HonorCode.php"]here[/url</a>].</p>