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Jan. 4, 2026
In November, matchmaking start-up Marriage Pact sent a cease-and-desist to the recently founded Date Drop, claiming similarities in websites, marketing copy and parts of the matching questionnaire.
By Kayla Chan
Jan. 28, 2026
Xin writes about Date Drop and other "optimization" techniques to make social interactions and relationship-building easier.
By Katie Xin
Feb. 3, 2026
MarriagePacts come and go, but you can always rely on your Asian Auntie for good advice and apple slices.
By Ella Prichard and Annette Lin
Dec. 4, 2024
Wouldn't it be a shame to waste all of Stanford’s romantic potential? The Daily caught up with five Marriage Pact couples getting to know each other at "Marriage Pact x On Call."
Jan. 12, 2026
Date Drop, a student-run matchmaking platform, returns to campus for the start of winter quarter, drawing mixed reactions from students.
By Yeva Allyn
May 21, 2024
Several campus matchmaking apps have bloomed — and withered — in past years. From friendships to founders, read about them here.
By Oriana Riley
Nov. 16, 2025
As she prepares to enter the post-grad dating pool, Ye reflects on her mom's unique relationship advice and her struggle to find the right person at Stanford.
By Erin Ye
May 19, 2025
DePierre traces her journey at Stanford through her yearly playlists.
Jan. 5, 2025
The club aims to foster community among majors and non-majors alike through activities such as "phraves," or physics raves.
By Grace Zhao
Nov. 14, 2024
Alan Lightman, MIT professor and author, shares how we can bridge the gap between arts, spirituality and science.
By Dan Kubota
April 9, 2023
In this op-ed, Yu argues that Checkmate, the app made by the Stanford Marriage Pact, has the potential to evolve into a dystopian technology and raise privacy concerns with the data it uses. Yu writes, "We are curious about ourselves, and we are curious about technology, which is why products like Checkmate can be a shortcut satisfying our desire for self-knowledge. Our interaction with Checkmate shows that one day we may easily repeat scenes in past dystopian imaginations without even realizing it."
By Chunhua Yu
March 6, 2024
The student a cappella group performed their annual anti-Valentine's Day show Saturday. The event highlighted the creative and collaborative spirit of the singers.
By Helen Katz
Sept. 28, 2022
Bain’s $10 billion portfolio of assets under management now includes some stake in Marriage Pact, though the terms of the agreement were framed in a way that does not yet determine a stock price. The Marriage Pact survey and matchmaking “will always be free,” according to co-founder Liam McGregor ’20, but he and his team are developing paid additions to existing services.
By Matthew Turk
Feb. 13, 2023
Stanford's newest matchmaking algorithm takes a new approach — purposefully leaking the data of some individuals.
By Caroline Wei
Sept. 30, 2024
Whether you’re an engineer or a reporter or an editor or whatever else, no department exists on a discrete, isometric island here, Matthew Turk '24 writes as he reflects on his four years at The Daily.
By Matthew Turk
April 7, 2022
Singles account for 61.4% of the population, and for the remaining 22.4%, “it’s complicated,” according to the updated report. “As it turns out, we accidentally swapped the labels on the ‘Relationship Status’ graph in the first edition of this year’s Campus Report,” according to a statement provided to The Daily from the Marriage Pact.
By Matthew Turk
April 29, 2022
Are college students ready to settle down? The answer to that question could depend on the responses to more than 500 potential questions. While layers of immense complexity underlie this matchmaking algorithm, it remains unknown how much the mystery of human connection can truly be predicted, allocated to best use or replaced by abstractions in a machine.
By Matthew Turk
April 14, 2022
The survey found that 16.2% of students are single, 61.4% of students are desperate for human contact of any kind and the remaining 22.4% are content with only eye contact.
Dec. 4, 2022
Performed in the Neo-Futurist style, “Everything Must Go” puts on 30 original plays in exactly 60 minutes.
By Greta Reich
March 27, 2022
Singles account for 16.2% of the population, 61.4% are partnered and for the remaining 22.4%, “it’s complicated,” based on 2021 survey data. As for religious beliefs, agnostics are proportionally the largest group (30.2%), followed by atheists (16%) and Catholics (14%).
By Matthew Turk