Ladies Line Up, The 10 Best Colleges To Find A Husband

[toblin]

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And where I was from, people either went to prison or the Army…

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<p>For those NOT living in the so called heart land or the deep south the above statement won’t make much sense. </p>

<p>But in actuality it does.</p>

<p>No tradition (or means) of higher education, no jobs or prospects of one, no promise of a future. Nothing like it was 30 or 40 years ago. </p>

<p>Now the young girls have babies and the government takes the place of husband and provider.</p>

<p>Now the young boys have to choose between the drug trade and the military. And what happens after the military? </p>

<p>This is not true for all. But it is true for a significant and growing part of the population.</p>

<p>So sad.</p>

[dragonmom]

<p>MaineLonghorn and kelsmom, I can go one better - one semester my husband was my TA. I was a a Senior, he was a grad student - we had been married for over a year. The male to female ratio in Geology department was about 50 to 1 at that time.</p>

<p>Perhaps a better list would be “majors to meet a spouse”. Women, engineering and non-bio sciences. Gentlemen, liberal arts, education and biology. All said with tongue firmly in cheek…none of mine seem interested in matrimony or giving us grandchildren in this millenium…</p>

<p>ETA. Not to detract from Toblins cross post, which deserves comment…</p>

[woody]

<p>Where’s BYU??</p>

[Consolation]

<p>Brigham Young University. A Mormon institution in Salt Lake City.</p>

[waitingforivy]

<p>Just about the whole stereotyping top schools thing - wait, its not worth my time arguing why I would be grateful and a great person at these schools</p>

[turbo93]

<p>Mrs. Turbo and I met at Cajun State U. nearly 30 years ago… In an English for Foreign Students class of all things. We also attended & finished Purdue together. Back then, Computer Science was a social thing- nights and nights in the computer center (PC’s just began appearing on campus for student use in the mid 80’s) so the terminal room was as good a place for the male species to show off their plumage as anything else (“Hey, babe, want to run some Fortran code thru the vector processor together??”)</p>

[woody]

<p>HA! Consolation - I meant where is BYU on the list – I hear they’re quite the marrying kind out there!</p>

[Psi]

<p>I met my husband in a statistics class- very romantic. Even though our school is not on the list, based on my experience, the probability of meeting a husband there =1.0 </p>

<p>Consolation, loved post #39!</p>

[ucbalumnus]

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@TheGFG

I did not consider it insulting to acknowledge that graduates of the service academies must enter active duty, risking life and limb in war. Their occupation is one of the riskiest possible.

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<p>For US military in Iraq 2003-2006, the death rates were (per 1000 person years, compared to total (mostly civilian) US males aged 20-34):</p>

<p>Marines: 8.48
Army: 3.94
all US military in Iraq: 3.92
all US males aged 20-34: 1.41
Navy: 0.83
Air Force 0.40</p>

<p>[“Mortality</a> of American Troops in Iraq” by Samuel H. Preston and Emily Buzzell](<a href=“http://repository.upenn.edu/psc_working_papers/1/]"Mortality”>http://repository.upenn.edu/psc_working_papers/1/)</p>

<p>While it was more dangerous to be in the Army or Marines than it was to be an average US male aged 20-34, it was safer to be in the Navy or Air Force than it was to be an average US male aged 20-34.</p>

[missypie]

<p>Woody, yes, it seems like BYU would be on the list with Harding and Dordt - the “we can’t have sex in college and we’re dying to have sex so we have to get married as soon as we graduate” list.</p>

[Pizzagirl]

<p>Consolation - anyone who even uses the phrase “lower Ivy” (in any way other than tongue-in-cheek) isn’t worth the time of day. A more pretentious, I-think-I’m-so-cool-but-I’m-really-a-dork phrase doesn’t exist.</p>

[Pizzagirl]

<p>“Now the young girls have babies and the government takes the place of husband and provider.”</p>

<p>Now? The average age at birth of first child was at its peak in the late 1950’s, when “happy” couples got married and had a bouncing 7 pounder a whole 7 months later.</p>

[sorghum]

<p>I prefer the term ‘Lesser Ivies’.</p>

[Pizzagirl]

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Desirable, yes. Moneyed, yes. Chip-On-Shoulder, absolutely. I know a number of guys from a few of these schools and let’s just say (as a father of two daughters, one in college) I would not be looking forward to any Chip-On-Shouldered young guys marrying them.</p>

<p>Maybe it’s just me and my very laid back attitude, but elite schools tend to stroke egos…

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<p>I think some people look for a stereotype that elite-school grads are all Snobby McSnobsters. You know, people are people. The % of jerks and nice people at top schools isn’t all that different from anywhere else on this planet.</p>

[Classof2015]

<p>Where’s the article: Top 10 Colleges with Highest % of Divorced Alums! I mean really…</p>

[qialah]

<p>Talk about gender bias. Where are the women’s schools. Not every girl wants to marry a guy.</p>

[SlitheyTove]

<p>Some of you might be interested in an article that the author of the original piece wrote a year ago. <a href=“http://www.yourtango.com/201087690/rise-sugar-mama[/url]”>The Rise Of The Sugar Mama | YourTango; </p>

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You’ve probably heard the statistic that women make 77 percent of what men make for the same job—and it’s true that, on average, men still make more money than women. But the rise of educated women entering professional fields coupled with the fact that the recession hit men harder than women means that more and more, women are out-earning the men they’re dating and marrying.

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Andrea Syrtash, relationship expert and the author of He’s Just Not Your Type (And That’s A Good Thing) acknowledges that, “The economy has clearly contributed to more women assuming the role of ‘sugar mama.’ Yet… the hope is that their male partners are still making significant contributions to the relationship and not just relying on the woman.”</p>

<p>“Being a sugar mama can be a bad thing if a man is not applying himself—to look for work, for example—because some women are bound to feel resentful,” says Syrtash. Especially if the man clearly has his eyes on her cash. Such a man may not be easy to spot, however, since successful women aren’t usually on the lookout for male gold-diggers.

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<p>Clearly, what’s really needed is a list of the 10 best colleges for finding a wife. :D</p>

[Pizzagirl]

<p>It is kind of interesting, though … I know tons of couples where we all went to college together and married one another – and of course a lot of that is simply opportunity / that’s where you meet people – but it would be interesting to know how colleges rank in terms of what % alums wind up being married to other alums.</p>

[abudhabi-mama]

<p>Check out the following post and comments - Perhaps we should leave it up to our children to find who and where they find a mate -</p>

<p>daughter finds a non college student to date at expensive dream school :(</p>

<p>Simply not diggin’ the fact that we sent d off to her dream school far away in August and she dates the dishwasher she works with who doesn’t even go to college, let alone the pricey college she is going to. Everyone says it’s me, but frankly I’m annoyed. She could have stayed home to do that and it would have been a heck of lot cheaper. What would do you think?</p>