MAY 8, 2025 | FEATURES | By Olivia Harris, Staff Writer
Early last semester, a buzz surrounding a new survey on campus circulated: the 2025 Colorado College Marriage Pact dropped. By Sept. 29, the CC Marriage Pact recruited around 56% of our student population. On Sept. 30 at 9:02 p.m., the pact released its results. Last week, the CC Marriage Pact sent a follow-up email entitled “The 2024 CC Campus Report.”
Marriage Pact, via their website, states that they are “at the frontier of applying science and technology to serve genuine, meaningful relationships.” Currently, they provide their service to 109 campuses in the U.S. and have matched 314,488 participants, stirring the pot for many young adults in college. The initial lore of the pact was filled with anticipation.
“It was definitely achieving what it needed to be done in terms of creating kind of a buzz around campus and overall, that was a fun time,” said Anya Potsiadlo ‘27.
For freshman Griffin Leese, the pact was an opportunity to integrate into the CC community: “I was a little hesitant at first… but at the same time I was kinda like I just wanna see what’s up about it, and this could be a good opportunity to meet new people.”
On a small campus, the shock factor of who you’d be matched with is reduced, as we all know how it works at CC; if you don’t already know someone, they’re only about one person removed from someone you do know. Potsiadlo reflected on the fact that even by knowing the initials of her match (given as a hint to her by Marriage Pact before the match results were released), she knew who it would be.
“Part of the fun of doing it on a big campus would be the fact that you might get this person that you’ve never met before, so I feel like that’s something we’re kind of missing out on a little bit here at CC.”
Some students used Outlook to look up their match’s initials. Many students were matched with people they already knew. Ilene Kruger ‘25 reflected that she knew her match saying, “he’s been in a long term relationship for three years… so, I can’t say that I felt either way except that I had more qualms about him as a person afterwards.”
Because the initial excitement surrounding The Marriage Pact wore off quickly, it was surprising to receive last week’s report; moreover, the details inside surprised students even more. New statistics taken from the original survey last semester revealed information concerning schoolwide views on sex, politics, religious beliefs and more broken down by grade, major and/or gender.
Some interesting statistics included that Business, Economics and Society majors are most likely to marry someone just because they’re rich, 50% of women and 20% of men identify as non-heterosexual and Independently Designed Majors are more likely to engage in non-monogamous relationships.
However, some of the most in-depth and interesting results from the survey concerned the political affiliations of students, broken down by grade and gender. According to Marriage Pact’s survey, the Class of 2027 is the most conservative grade, also denoting that the grade is most polarized by gender. Although the sophomore girls are still second to the sophomore boys for most conservative. Oliv Janerico ‘27 described the results as “shocking.” Additionally, the results came out mid-week, and “it was interesting going into the weekend and observing things with that new perspective,” says Potsiadlo.
Although these newfound political statistics are interesting, it’s important to remember that we are a small school. Kruger says, “it’s hard to really interpret a lot of the statistics especially around political affiliation because this school is so skewed left anyway that like it makes things look more significant than they are.”
While this survey came out as a fun activity to create some commotion on campus, It has clearly had a big impact on our campus. Whether you’re hoping for a rematch next fall to find true love, or looking to see more campus-wide statistics in next spring’s recap, it’s safe to say the CC Marriage Pact should stick around in years to come.