No, you won't be alienated. You will be welcomed. I am an International graduate student at the U and I am neither a Christian/LDS nor am I very religious. I don't know where Mormons even get the bad reputation from. read more
It is like a non Mormon at any other school. Not sure if you're associating the university of utah with the fact that there are a lot of Mormons in utah, but if that's the case they're all down at BYU. Okay not all of them. I'm sure I had some classmates that were, but I never knew. Nobody mentioned it. read more
When you're away from Provo / Salt Lake you won't see the state as much different from the surrounding states. Parts of it are a lot like Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, and Wyoming. I found Moab to be more like Durango than Salt Lake, for instance. But wherever you are in Utah, if you're from the south, you're going to need some new clothes. read more
1. All public middle and high schools have a Mormon seminary building at the edge of the school property. During the school day, all Mormon kids leave to go to the Mormon seminary and all of the non-mormon kids stay in class. This creates segregation in the public school system. 2. read more