We found a relatively new site called DegreeDate.com
They boast the following–
Degreedate.com is, first and foremost, a dating and personals site geared towards singles who value education in their prospective dates. What differentiates Degreedate.com from other dating sites is that our service provides not only connections based on physical appearance, location, shared interests, and the relationships you are seeking, but we do it in a unique and fun way-by letting our members display their educational background and Alma Mater. Dating is tough, but it is also fun-and, as an added bonus, it can also be educational.
Degreedate.com believes in education-and we believe in it so much that we thought we would provide you with valuable resources to improve your life and maximize your time. From dating sites to online education, shopping options to medical and real estate resources, Degreedate.com provides research and product links for you to be able to make educated, insightful decisions between the choices you make each and every day. We’ve made these resources easy for you to access, and hope they provide you with the solutions to all of your needs.
We at Corra fully support any effort by this or any other date site to encourage romantic efforts that would help propagate a more intelligent species for this planet. Let’s face it, smarter people are desperately needed, and any attempt to design a more exclusive channel to develop relationships among a more educated class is just fine with us. Genetically speaking, the joining of two intelligent people should result in intelligent offspring that will be directed toward being competitive and acquiring at least a college education.
Of course, I have to question whether the natural order of things is for most members of dating sites to drift toward the prospective paramours who share similar values in education as well as similar interests. It is rare in this day and age for even the most enlightened female attorney to go running off with the stockboy at Sam’s Club or even the Chippendale’s Dancer. But then, on a site like Degree Date you don’t have to go wading through the intellectual flotsam and jetsam before finding someone with whom you are compatible mentally.
While we are heartily in favor of intelligence over ignorance and stupidity, we at Corra still recognize that there are more than a few highly intelligent people who are self-obssessed, selfish and inconsiderate, or otherwise a major pain in the ass. In contrast there are duller people who are polite, considerate and courteous. But then so are Cocker Spaniels, which takes us back to the basic premise that love and romance is always a pretty tough call.
But perhaps in the end Degree Date will start a meaningful trend. Perhaps some enterprising soul will open up yet another online dating website where everyone is mandated to take courses in etiquette and common courtesy. Perhaps we can run background checks on them to see if they have been tested on protocol and decorum, where they understand that wearing your baseball hat on backwards reduces your IQ by one point each time you put it on your head. Perhaps we can have little personality profile tests to discover if the men wear wife-beater tees and hairy chests to better restaurants, and if the women do their makeup at the table. We can test them to see if they rely upon meaningless jargon rather than a more articulate and definitive use of the language itself. We can test them for refresher courses in the lost art of conversation, or if they know the difference between Albert Schweitzer and the Albert Hall. Once a site gets firmly established in the “smart and educated” category there is no end to the subjective and contextual upgrades it could provide its members. Naturally, Corra would still have to run background checks to make sure they weren’t lying.
But for now we wish Degree Date all the luck and hope they are ultimately responsible for the marital union of the thousands of intelligent people who in turn will gift the planet with a multitude of intelligent and talented babies. Someone can then design modern baby buggies with built-in computers.
