New Matchmaking Society Aims to Provide Future Designer Babies

by Qichen Zhang | October 6, 2009 at 10:58 pm

ivy plusTo 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.

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