Marriage Pact Returns

Speaker 0 00:00:01 It's the season of love, or at least the season of coughing and Northwestern students are ready. The marriage pact has taken over campus. The marriage pact uses. Speaker 1 00:00:11 We are algebra. We use a little bit of computer science, um, but all in all, we're just kind of a questionnaire that seeks to be fun and match, um, different students up with who, uh, at least an algorithm in relationship psychology says with either best match Speaker 0 00:00:31 That was Northwestern junior, Annie sway, who runs the Northwestern branch of the marriage pact five years ago, a group of Stanford university students created the pact for a school project since then it has expanded to 64 schools resulting in almost 94,000 batches. Speaker 1 00:00:49 We're seeing around 4,000 students take it this year. We had around 3000 ticket last year. Um, and to be honest, I think the product really does speak for itself. I think, uh, college students are definitely, always looking for kind of soaking into outside of steadied and, you know, romance is always kind of half on our minds, half it's not our main goal is just something we'd like to have. So with something like the marriage pack comes out, um, it peaks a lot of interests. Um, I think, um, the product itself, the marriage pack, it truly is an algorithm based on research. So, you know, it's quality is not just something that's like, oh, who are you most similar to it's who are you most compatible to? Speaker 0 00:01:28 So the marriage pact ensures compatibility behind. They know that they are asking the right questions after all students don't want just another awkward Tinder conversation. Speaker 1 00:01:37 So I can't give too much just because, um, that's like kind of like our, uh, part of our secret sauce, but, um, basically the questions are based on psychological and sociological research into what's actually important when it comes to predicting the long-term success of a relationship. And so each question like when you break it down to its core taps into these categories of values that we have found to be essential to be compatible with your partner. Um, so all of these questions have really gone through kind of a lot of review and like all stem from research, which I think is really cool. Speaker 0 00:02:14 Another way the marriage pact differentiates itself from dating apps is that there are no photos involved, any thinks this is a good idea Speaker 1 00:02:22 At the end of the day, what makes a relationship compatible and truly successful is in based necessarily, um, on, uh, on just looks it's based on a number of different factors. And I think marriage pack kind of, um, kind of narrows down, I guess, um, narrows down your, all your choices and allows you to make the choice for yourself. When you finally, you get your mash and you see them and you see, oh, are we, you know, we know according to this algorithm, we're technically compatible, but like when you actually see each other, um, things may change Speaker 0 00:02:54 The one physical component that the marriage pact does consider his race and ethnicity because of their historical significances. Now that we know the details behind the pact, I wanted to get into how it is playing out in Northwestern. Specifically, students may have seen the desperate pleas in their email inboxes from the marriage pact to convince their street and bisexual male friends to fill out the pact. As of Monday 360 more heterosexual women had filled out the pact than heterosexual or bisexual men. That means that about 360 women will, instead of receiving a romantic match, receive a platonic match from a fellow woman on the waiting list, Speaker 1 00:03:33 Always have more heterosexual woman take the exam, uh, take the questionnaire, um, more so than heterosexual men. Uh, these numbers are actually pretty good compared to other schools are pretty average. Um, and we want to w we all in a perfect world, we would like really try our best. And we happen to try to target, um, either hetero or bisexual males to take their toxicities. Women can get all the matches. Um, but yeah, so that is very common. Yeah, Speaker 0 00:03:57 This is only the second year of the marriage pact at Northwestern, but participants at other schools have had more time to develop their relationships. Some participants never reach out to their matches, but others take the pact quite literally Speaker 1 00:04:10 Nationwide. We've actually had one actual marriage, which I think is super cool. And that just speaks to, I think the algorithm, you know, that it takes a law for a marriage to actually happen. And the fact that we've even had one, um, is really Speaker 0 00:04:21 The marriage pact might be the future of college dating life. And you might even be lucky enough to be connected with your future spouse, best of luck to honor Western students who received their matches today for w and you are news I'm past.