New Matchmaking Society Aims to Provide Future Designer Babies
To those insane enough to still want to date someone from Princeton, Yale, et al. after attending an Ivy, a new, more blatantly bourgeois dating service now caters specifically to those elitist desires. According to their mission statement, the Ivy Plus Society, also referred to as TIPS (we couldn't have come up with a more ironic acronym if we tried) aims at creating "a community of talented, dynamic individuals" with 75% of their members claiming single status. Most likely an attempt to encourage genetically customizing future purebred offspring, the new venture founded by Jennifer Wilde Anderson, Yale '01, that stole Harvard's final club/Princeton's eating club concept targets recent alumni from the Ivies as well as their "plus" counterparts, such as Duke and Berkeley. The seemingly arbitrary qualifications even reach across the pond, with the London School of Economics making the list. Taking a Sex and the City approach to elitism and the dating scene, Ivy Plus assures the hesitant with promises of "fabulous":
[W]e all need a few nights to set the roof on fire and fill-up [sic] a glass or three with a dash of chaos & adventure.
Read the New York Times response after the jump.
The NYT described the society as a sham, with no meetings, membership fees, or mandatory attendances except mixers, one of which was held in Chelsea in Manhattan last week (props for learning their lesson about Brooklyn). Calling it a "meet market for the pedigreed," the article also drew attention to a Georgetown alum and current member named Ben Pike, who is simply looking for more:
I've been in the city three years and dated girls who are legitimate models, and that gets old. I have high standards. I've met people who are really smart but don't have it together socially, and people who are fun but may not offer more mentally.
Really? We're really shocked he's still single. But for Ivy alumni hoping to end their subscriptions to Match.com, a word of warning--beware of infiltrators. At one event, after University of Illinois graduate tried to woo some women with his resume, he immediately got called out by a friend:
You're not even a plus.
Don't look at us; no one ever said the liberal arts taught anyone tact. And even if all else fails, graduates always have the option of bagging one of those Harvard teenie magazine bad boys.
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October 7th, 2009 at 2:13 am
Berkeley, LSE (ridiculously easy), and all the service academies except for West Point should be kicked out of this group, with Georgetown put on watch for a possible downgrade.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:58 am
The first paragraph on the ABOUT page of the website is embarrassing. Really, “incredible” is the only adjective they could come up with to describe themselves and potential TIPSters? And please check out the pictures from the LA event at the Standard; somehow I thought exclusivity in LA was more, well, not like a frat party and more attractive. I paid $200,000 and 4 years in New Haven for this?
October 7th, 2009 at 7:06 am
This is worse: http://www.goodgenes.com
October 7th, 2009 at 11:30 am
That guy in the photograph has got to be a plant by the Times. Nobody really looks like that before they’re 45, right? Seriously, does anybody on this website recognize him? The Times hired him from a casting agency, I know it.
October 7th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
I think I saw a MOD SQUAD episode about this. :)
October 7th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
“New” society? I went to my first TIPS mixer over 2 years ago…
October 10th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Agreed. Also, I don’t see how you can have Georgetown, Berkeley, but not some combination of Amherst, Williams, and Swarthmore. The Grad School policy isn’t going to work either with the lack of selectivity in some degree programs even at top schools. For example, Harvard’s Ed School has an acceptance rate of 50-60% (depending on year), Harvard’s Kennedy School, at least the Master’s programs, range from 35% to 50%, etc. A program is hardly exclusive if it’s taking half or over half of its applicants.
October 12th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
I have been to a number of the events in New York. There are plenty of plus, plus ppl, who went to crap schools who sneak in. Secondly, as a guy, and hetero, the most interesting people I met were guys!!!! Most of the girls were simply unattractive. And, there are always these Chinese semi grad students who bring their friends who didnt go to any school or any decent school who are just seriously unpleasant. Also, it is never open bar, but there is still a hefty admissions fee, terrible set up! All events are at night, never a weekend type event…..
October 13th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Ben, I think I have the “package” you’re looking for. ;)