Just when you thought it was safe - OK CUPID PART 3: The Return of the WOO!

(not that i'd want to anyway because yuck)

according to their ad, they will grudgingly accept ppl from places like stanford/chicago/duke

hahaha.

an "introduction" network??

Ivy League match.com dating

wait is this a thing?

Ha. No, it was 2 women I met on match.com and I knew that they were lawyers before the dates but nothing more re their schooling. After a 2nd date with one, I found on my own that she had gone to an Ivy League school but she never mentioned it (kinda cool I think). The other date asked me about my schooling and then mentioned that she and her ex-husband had gone to Ivy League schools.

wow. do people really care about that stuff?

Oh my god do they. GF is working at an ivy right now, and buuuuuuugggghhhh.

I did not go to an Ivy League school and it does not matter to me, but to some people it does. Another friend of mine (a non-Ivy university grad with a decent job) said he would be intimidated by a date with a professionally successful, Ivy League college grad.

few years ago, was having dinner w/some high school friends. one of them went to princeton, and she mentioned how senior year, everyone started hooking up w/each other and throwing themselves into relationships left & right -- we said why? -- and she said it was b/c they "knew" they would never find the type of "quality" people as those who go to princeton.

(barf)

it was b/c they "knew" they would never find themselves surrounded by quite so many horny people again the type of "quality" people as those who go to princeton.

see again i think this might be an east coast thing

no one ever, ever, ever asks me where i went to school.

This also seems a very american thing (possibly UK upper classes too?), Ive never met anyone here who cares which uni one went to (likewise, no one would ever ask you if you even go to church let alone "which church").

You do get asked that question here, but to be fair, it's mostly to do with football.

I sometimes get asked if I went to school at all

When I moved to the EC I was amazed and mystified by the whole ivy thing. Had never heard of such a thing being actually considered important in my life: people who went to ivies were so far away from the lives of most people that they were basically legends, where politicians and millionaires went but not "real" people.

So, I have this friend who is good looking, a lawyer, a really lovely funny smart guy. He's still on OKC, has been for forever. I just jokingly messaged him asking why the hell he's still there, he should be fighting the ladies off with a stick. He's all "THATS A GOOD QUESION TRAYCE" and then goes on to explain he's "picky".

I guess my ridiculously passive bait didnt work then, haha. (I'm not gonna outright ask him on a date. He's someone I'm already friends with IRL, I doubt he would be interested, haw. Mores the pity).

i kinda freak out when i see people i have 99% match with. never know what to say.

"clearly the machines think we are made for each other"

someone wrote me with roughly that though! so it kinda works

I say p much every time I meet ppl irl xp

I have a 0% enemy person I'm supposed to be meeting. Life would be boring maybe?

i kinda freak out when i see people i have 99% match with. never know what to say.

I met my 99% match on a whim--we'd only emailed a few times (over the course of a day or two) and then he came out randomly when I happened to be out for drinks in his neighborhood . . . and I didn't even remember how highly matched we were until he mentioned it. And then he broke my heart.

My other 99's in NYC are a committed polyamorist and an accountant musician. I haven't had any contact with them. I am having a fruitful e-mail discussion with a 99 in Austin who only moved away from Queens (the next neighborhood over from mine) two weeks ago.

i kinda freak out when i see people i have 99% match with. never know what to say.

you say 'we are the 99%' obvs

omg

Already had that joke with my in-person 99:(

highest match i have is 92% but i haven't answered a ton of those qns either

Just got a message, all it said was "Tell me more." Um, no thanks. As if i haven't rambled on in my profile enough already.

i got a weird cryptic message from someone who wants to "meat" me D:

I don't know about the match percentage thing. I dated my 96% match for about a month and it kinda seemed like we were just basically the same person. I don't want to date ME!

im in a pub waitin for a date to arrive!!

i never used to look at the questions that the other person answered, but the other day i did, and i realized they ARE important. If someone responds to the question, "do you think a women should keep her legs shaved?" with a YES, then regardless of the high match of other questions, they're out. this might seem picky to some, but someone with those kinds of ideas about femininity is not going to be a good match for me anyway.

xp good luck w/your date! i had to postpone mine tonight.

i am intrigued by ppl (who do not appear to hail from belfast and seem otherwise non-religious) who would not consider dating a catholic

I consistently surprised by the guys who think that men should be the heads of household and also how few people get the Romeo & Juliet question right!!!

What IS the ansewr to that R&J thing??

also the STALE-STEAL thing

What is the Romeo and Juliet question?

The question is what does "Wherefore" mean in "Wherefore art thou Romeo?"

The answer is 'Why'

i never used to look at the questions that the other person answered, but the other day i did, and i realized they ARE important. If someone responds to the question, "do you think a women should keep her legs shaved?" with a YES, then regardless of the high match of other questions, they're out.

definitely! i mean, it's online dating - it's ok to restrict the search results to weed out people who are going to say and do things that annoy the fuck out of you.

i still remember my 9th grade teacher explaining that to us!

the wherefore thing, not the restricting search results thing, though i wished they HAD taught us that, lousy public school system

the leg shaving question is a dealbreaker for me too! as well as people who "strongly prefer" to date someone of their own race. those aren't picky things, just asshole weeding out things.

totally

same with religion for me. i'm cool with all answers except the ones that are like "i'm super religious and i pray every day and i have talked to god". that's just not gonna fly with me, ever, so why deal with it?

i never used to look at the questions that the other person answered, but the other day i did, and i realized they ARE important. If someone responds to the question, "do you think a women should keep her legs shaved?" with a YES, then regardless of the high match of other questions, they're out.

i tend to look at the "things she cares about" questions to get a sense of what they're looking for, and if i'm anywhere close to it or not

i got the r&j question wrong, but i tbh we read a lot of Shakespeare plays in highschool and i always kinda sucked at keeping them straight! except for King Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet - that's some unfuckwithable business.

think this chick got the r&j q wrong

I got it wrong, also! But I had kept my answer secret so that's not too bad.

The question about a left-hand glove, when turned inside-out, fits on: Right or Left? is funny. I got out some gloves and tried it.

hahaha. what's the answer? it's right, right?

oops i got the r&j question wrong. damn!

mookieproof, re: the catholic thing, it would depend on the intensity of their belief, but having been brought up catholic, i have a lot of personal baggage and animosity toward that religion that might make it hard for catholics to date ME. (again, depending on the intensity of their belief)

how many of your questions do you answer secretly? the majority of mine are open, so everyone will know that i know jack shit about romeo and juliet