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The higher your tuition, the hornier you are. At least, that’s what our friends over at OkCupid concluded after studying the activity of nearly 20,000 of their users. Among their most interesting claims?

Given a 36-week school year and the average partner, every $2,000 spent on your college tuition is an extra time you could be having sex that year.

Yalies desire the most sex at 5.4 times a week, while the more reserved Harvard and UPenn students clock in at 5.1 and 4.9 times a week. Princeton is noticeably missing from the chart, perhaps because of this or, more likely, maybe we just don’t use dating sites all that much.

And … cue next poll.

That red dot at the top? Sarah Lawrence. Think about it.

That red dot at the top? Sarah Lawrence. Think about it.

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Move aside, GolfMates, VeggieDate, and Equestrian Cupid.

E-harmony and Match.com? Psh. Fuh-get about it.

This spring marked the launch of the newest brand of niche online dating websites. Philipp Triebel and Beri Meric, both Harvard Business School graduates, created  IvyDate to connect students and alums of the Ivy League, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics. They claim that these schools crush the courtship tendencies of anyone in attendance:

“Exceptional singles often sacrifice romance for their careers and community. So we set out to create a simple, easy-to-use, members-only platform that makes outstanding romantic connections a reality for highly driven men and women who value intellectual curiosity, love of learning, drive, and determination.”

IvyDate succeeds Triebel and Meric’s former venture, DateHarvardsq, which garnered controversy last year for its model which required women to pay to access a pool of self-important Harvard men. After realizing “great success,” Triebel and Meric decided to expand such matchmaking opportunity to other equally discerning and sophisticated to-be doctors, lawyers, and entrepreneurs.

In other words, people like you and me.

likealittle.com picRemember GoodCrush? Well, newcomer LikeALittle.com bears a striking resemblance to Princeton’s last “missed connections” website.

Started by students at Stanford and expanding to schools across the country, LikeALittle combines ease of use, anonymity, and mild stalker tendencies into one Internet platform, making compliments to that cute girl in Frist much easier to make. (We all know the community was sorely lacking an outlet for awkward anonymous flirting since GoodCrush was taken down.)

Presumably, LikeALittle could be used as a dating site: there’s a feature that lets you message the author of the flirt post if you think it’s about you. But in reality, this would only work if a substantial percentage of your school’s student body uses the site. Given the number of posts on the site, that’s not entirely true right now.

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Ah, the wonders of the holiday season: a tree in Palmer Square that’s approximately ten trillion feet tall, a barrage of simply lovely end-of-term assignments, and, of course, the eternal quest for some cute Inkblot to kiss under the mistletoe.  Never fear, Tigers!  Former USG President Josh Weinstein ’09 has the site for you.

Goodcrush.com, which Weinstein started earlier this year (with some start-up help from Joseph Perla ‘09), provides Princeton’s resident lonely-hearts with a prime chance to rhapsodize about all their geeky missed connections, and, with luck, connect with that soul mate who looked oh-so-suave sitting in Lewis Library at 2AM.

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