Which Boston-Area Universities Have the Most Dateable Singles?
Harvard students are well-liked, Berklee College of Music has a pretty big gender popularity divide, and Brandeis students are not picky with their dates. Those findings come courtesy of an analysis of the popularity of local college students who use the Coffee Meets Bagel dating app.
For the uninitiated, Coffee Meets Bagel is an app popular among #millennials these days. The app itself is pretty straightforward: Users are sent profiles of a potential love interest each day along with a picture and some basic biographical information, including education. Users can then like or ignore the potential interest. If both people independently like each other, they are then entered into a chatroom. The rest of the courtship process goes from there.
We asked Coffee Meets Bagel for information comparing the likability of students and alumni at ten Boston-area universities: Harvard, Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emerson, Brandeis, Suffolk, Berklee, Emerson, and Wellesley.
The results produced popularity data based on 1.2 million matches of Boston-area university students and graduates on its service.
So, which Boston-area universities have the most well-liked students?
First, that’s a big (and likely unnecessary) ego boost for male and female Harvardians. 36% of users liked Harvard men, the highest-liked percentage of all males at area schools. Harvard women, too, were the 2nd-most-liked among the female schools we looked at. The Crimson is apparently in high demand.
Also notable is Berklee College of Music’s polarizing gender divide among its likability. According to the findings, Berklee men were in low demand and were liked just 23 percent of the time, by far the lowest group of all the students examined. Berklee’s women, meanwhile, topped the most popular list by getting approved for dating 46 percent of the time. That means that Berklee women are, statistically speaking, twice as liked as the school’s men (at least according to the app). Suffolk, too, had a similar male-nope, female-yes split.
On the whole, women are liked more than men across the board on the app.
We also received data on which school’s students were the pickiest date-choosers.
Berklee stands out again here, with both the men and women portrayed as particularly picky, according to the app. This makes sense for the women – they are the most well-liked, after all – but makes less sense for Berklee’s men. Come on, guys, beggars can’t be choosers.
Brandeis students, meanwhile, have looser preliminary requirements for a date, the numbers suggest. Both the Brandeis men and women were the least picky groups for their respective gender. Brandeis students are DTL – down to like.
So how did your school do?
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