The Marriage Pact is an annual matching ritual that has become a popular staple on nearly 90 college campuses around the country. About 500,000 students have participated in the pact since it first rolled out at Stanford University in 2017.
FILE - A bride holds a bouquet during her wedding in Ein Hemed, Israel on Dec. 14, 2017. The Marriage Pact is an annual matching ritual that has become a popular staple on nearly 90 college campuses around the country. About 500,000 students have done the pact since it first rolled out at Stanford University in 2017. This image provided by Katie Richards shows Miguel Corzo and Katie Richards last fall in Chicago.
Many students do it with friends just for fun and don’t follow up. Others are ghosted after trying to make contact. A tiny fraction land in long-term relationships, even marriage. Rather than dwell on physical beauty and personal stats like height and hair color, he said, the Marriage Pact focuses its 50-question survey on core values. Communication styles and conflict resolution. Smoking and drug habits. And things like: “If you do nothing for an entire day, how do you feel?” On a 1 to 7 scale, “like a lard” is 1 and “like royalty” is 7.
Pandemic restrictions kicked in as the pact spread wide to new campuses. “It was just harder to date,” said Katie Richards, who did the pact at Boston College in February 2021. McGregor was stunned at the interest in his little project after receiving the go-ahead from an economics professor.
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