Dating in college

College Search & Selection
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<p>Bay-
Saying it won't make it true but I am sure there are plenty of students out there who understand what I am saying and understand my point.</p>

<p>keefer-
I am not having any crisis. I am really trying to do a favor for those who might be letting opportunities slip through their fingers. I am saying there is more to life than school. If you don't need to hear this, fine. There are others who might need to hear this.</p>

<p>My comment about Asians and internationals has to do with meeting people with whom you have a lot in common, meeting people who share your cultural background.</p>

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<p>first, is interracial dating illegal in your town?
second, I'm pretty sure people will realize that school isn't everything in due time, also considering that most people graduate college around 21-23, I'm pretty sure they'd have plenty of time to find love. I'm still not sure what you are saying, of course dating is great in college, but there's quite a bit of a jump between graduating college and someone in their 30s.</p>

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My comment about Asians and internationals has to do with meeting people with whom you have a lot in common, meeting people who share your cultural background.

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first, is interracial dating illegal in your town?

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<p>keefer, is it wrong to have strong preferences for people that share the same cultural values as you do? Lots of people are much much more comfortable dating people of their own race and find them more attractive. You can't deny that fact. I know that most Caucasians would rather date other Caucasians - being in an environment that is predominantly Asian reduces that person's dating pool</p>

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<p>collegehelp,</p>

<p>Are you saying that students at elite universities are not smart enough to know (without being told by you) that there is more to life than school, while students at lower-ranked universities already know this? Ridiculous. As is your assumption that students at elite universities do not share enough in common with each other to engage in sufficient meaningful relationships.</p>

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<p>What's wrong with putting achievements over a relationship? You have the rest of your life to find that special someone, but only four years for college.</p>

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<p>bay-
Students at elite universities are smart, but they may be unwise.</p>

<p>Cervantes-
It becomes much more difficult to meet people after graduation. Not impossible, but difficult.</p>

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It becomes much more difficult to meet people after graduation. Not impossible, but difficult.

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<p>Really? Do you have stats or something showing that most married couples met in college?</p>

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Students at elite universities are smart, but they may be unwise.

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<p>Meaning...what? That they had better meet their spouse in college or they will be single for the rest of their lives?</p>

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<p>"keefer, is it wrong to have strong preferences for people that share the same cultural values as you do? Lots of people are much much more comfortable dating people of their own race and find them more attractive. You can't deny that fact. I know that most Caucasians would rather date other Caucasians - being in an environment that is predominantly Asian reduces that person's dating pool"</p>

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<li>It's certainly not wrong for the individual, after all, dating is a highly discriminative matching process. You can choose to date whoever you want, white, black, asian, hispanic, hairstylist, ninjas, pencil sharpeners. I don't have a problem with that, but to group all of international and Asian American students into one group and attributing the lack of dating due to their large presence in elite engineering/science programs is basically bigotry. You are not talking about individual preferences here, you are talking about groups of people.</li>
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