<p>I thought this was interesting.
<a href="https://www./notes/facebook-data-science/from-classmates-to-soulmates/10151779448773859%5B/url%5D">https://www./notes/facebook-data-science/from-classmates-to-soulmates/10151779448773859</a></p>
<p>Some key findings:
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<p>The way they broke down numbers separately for women and for men led to some strange but unsurprising results. In particular, women who went to tech schools were much more likely to marry a college classmate.</p>
<p>Article is called From Classmates to Soulmates. For some reason, this site is blocking the link.</p>
<p>This is an interesting article. This may come as a shock to the CC community, but I know a number of people who have not had great dating luck in college and who have felt alarmed by the possibility that they might not be able to find a spouse-- ie “if I can’t find a good relationship NOW in college with all this opportunity to meet new people, how will I ever!?” </p>
<p>I can’t access the article at work, but it was referenced on our local news website and they noted the following:</p>
<p>"And there’s a Michigan connection. Ranking among the top 12 colleges for women to meet their husbands is in our own backyard. </p>
<p>Michigan Technological University snags the number two spot with roughly 62 percent of women attending college with their future hubby."</p>
<p>62% seems astronomically high! </p>
<p>My fiance didn’t go to college and grew up on the other side of the state from me, so we don’t fit into this study. But the boy I dated all throughout college is engaged to a classmate he was always close to back then. When I try to consider other people in my social circle to see how my ancedotal experience matches up, I realize I know a lot fewer people than I thought who actually went to college… I think I can only think of the one couple who both went to the same school, but in almost all cases only one person in the couple attended college at all. I would be interested to know more about how this varies regionally, especially since population density appears to play a role… you would think that means geography would make a difference.</p>
<p>Lol ema! My son and his long term girl friend met at Michigan Tech. They have the same major and do basically the same thing for competing company’s in the same industry. Yea I know. </p>
<p>I think MTU has a 60/40 split M/F. I would say that in engineering majors the breakdown is closer to 80/20. It’s also very physically isolated and no one goes home on the weekends and so people have close friendships. It’s a very special place. Most if not all of my S’s friends who are women have boyfriends from Tech. Most of the straight women there have boyfriends that they met at Tech. You are never going to find more single men than you will when you go to MTU. </p>
<p>My D who went to another undergrad also met her current boyfriend in college. They both have the same major also. It’s kind of humorous.</p>
<p>My H and I went to the same HS and college, but we didn’t meet at either (met after HS, and I transferred to his college.)</p>
<p>Us too, garland. Only we started dating my last year of high school and he transferred to my college. My freshman son is transferring to his girlfriend’s college in January. Unlike the survey results, our schools weren’t religious and we were in a high-density population area.</p>
<p>I attended an engineering college where less than 25% of students were female. I married a guy from the college, and many of the women at this school also married fellow students. I always figured it was because there were so few of us, we looked pretty darned good … after all, most of the scenery was male.</p>
<p>Neither H or I have attended a 4yr college, we met when he was 21 & I was 18 ( but looked 14), at a local park during a drag race.
( his friend had AAA ins, when my friends car wouldn’t start)</p>
<p>Oldest met her sig other online after undergrad ( same city), but youngest met her BF at college. Both science majors, but different fields. Same birthday though.
My sister in law was married to her kindergarten boyfriend for over 25 yrs. They didn’t marry until he had finished college.
I think she is enjoying her freedom ( they divorced a few years ago)</p>
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<p>It does, but what’s the sample size here? I’m guessing 8. Michigan Tech is not known for having a lot of women. In the whole university I think it’s only 25% female or something.</p>
<p>My H and I graduated from the same college but 8 years apart. We met about 13 years after I graduated when we both worked at the same community college.</p>
<p>I met H at college within a month or two of starting. He was an RA in the dorm where I took my meals, and we would eat together as part of a group before we started dating. Anecdotally only but a lot of my girlfriends married guys from college.</p>
<p>H and I met and started dating in college.</p>
<p>S1 and his fiancee went to the same grad school, altho she had just gotten her degree when he started there. They met through mutual friends who were still in grad school.</p>