Yale University - Guys & Girls

Not a Bad Pool, but Who Has Time to Date?

Yalies do a pretty good job of shedding the ugly geek stereotype. Okay, so if your ideal is the dyed-blond hair, lots of makeup, fake eyelashes kind of girl, you'll have slimmer pickings, and ditto for girls into big bearded bruiser kind of guys. But if your type isn't quite so MTV Spring Break, you'll find Yale has a pretty good dating/hook-up pool: people here tend to be smart, interesting, fun, and pretty good-looking. If anything, the girls here can be a little intimidating; how *does* that girl in your section manage to make such brilliant comments about Chaucer, sing in an a cappella group, play IM sports, and look great while doing all three? I can't comment in an informed way on the guys, except to warn straight girls that there are a lot of gay men here—the saying is 1 in 4, maybe more—so your dating pool is going to be smaller. All that said, be warned that pretty much everyone at Yale seems to fall into three categories: not doing much of anything, hooking up casually on weekends, or in a long-term super-committed relationship. There isn't much casual dating here, probably because people are so involved both with their academic and extracurricular lives. Every so often, there'll be an op-ed in the Yale Daily News or the Yale Herald from a sad single guy or girl bemoaning this, but nothing will change.

Variety of People; Serious Relationships and Hookups

Everyone is engaging. lots of variety. some people are into the hook up scene, while many others opt for serious relationships.

Not Bad

The looks are kind of like the GPAs; inflated, with a tight standard deviation.

It’s very hard to come up with a...

It’s very hard to come up with a ‘typical’ Yale guy or girl, but I suppose that’s part of the fun of being here. We are probably not significantly hotter or less hot than similar schools. A lot of Yale girls are prettier than they think they are, and are fun and interesting to boot. Yale guys are harder to characterize, but I’d say there’s a fair mix of attractive (but sometimes not as smart) jocks, self-conscious and average frat boys, and urbane, sensitive, sophisticated, and often gay other guys. I mean, we’re no Florida State. But, there are some surprisingly beautiful people here.

Ha ha! Not only are they hot, they...

Ha ha! Not only are they hot, they are smart! I am partial to the people at Yale because the impression that I got was that they were much more down to earth and relaxed than people I’ve been introduced to before.