<p>Do students get married while still in college? Susan Patton's article set me thinking! :D</p>
<p>Your question is bizarre. Does it happen often? no. Is it unheard of? no.</p>
<p>What answer did you think is out there?</p>
<p>…i think its like 15-20% do and the rest don’t… so yeahhh…</p>
<p>Nothing like 15-20%, at least not at Princeton (or anyplace similar). Maybe .15-.20%. Of course, if you look at religious colleges, especially those associated with socially conservative religions that don’t tolerate a lot of dissent or deviation – say, BYU or Liberty – the marriage rate among undergraduates will be much higher. (And at BYU it’s also affected by the upperclass males being meaningfully older thanks to their missions.)</p>
<p>Now, it could possibly be the case that 15-20% of the students at Princeton marry someone whom they met while they were in college, either other Princeton students or students at other colleges. (That seems a little high, but not ridiculous.) Not while they were still in college, though.</p>
<p>eunhyuk: where are you pulling that statistic from? You’re absolutely incorrect</p>
<p>Very few people marry while in college–that’s what I know. I think molliebatmit (Super Moderator) got married in her senior year at MIT. I am not absolutely sure though.</p>
<p>I married someone I met in college … almost 10 years later. I can think of a decent number of friends who also married someone they met in college, but at least a few years after they graduated. I can think of only one couple I knew that was even engaged in college, and that was at the end of their senior year.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure mollie had graduated, and maybe had a year of grad school, when she got married.</p>
<p>I married a college friend five years and change after I graduated (four years and change after graduation for her). That same summer, by the way, I went to four weddings of college friends before my own. My daughter is four years out of college now, and she has four weddings to attend between June 15 and July 31 (she’s a bridesmaid at three of them). That’s a more common pattern. She did have some high school friends who married earlier, but no one before he or she graduated from college, even the couple who had been involved since 10th grade.</p>