Wedding Credential, as an entry on New York Magazine's "Daily Intel" blog put it, just might be the perfect tool for the "snobby spouse-hunters" out there.
The website allows visitors to search the 3,910 most recent wedding announcements in The New York Times for key terms, like "lawyer" and "doctor." It's useful information, of course, for those wondering whether having "Goldman Sachs" or "Citigroup" attached to their name is more likely to land them in the newspaper. (For the record, Goldman is ahead 74 to 63.)
As of last week, Duke was among the ten most frequently mentioned universities. Ivy League schools are mentioned a stunning 2,307 times, according to the Wedding Credential.
The entire top 10 list, as complied by "Daily Intel":
1. Columbia (615)2. Harvard (466)
3. Yale (278)
4. Princeton (273)
5. Brown (226)
6. Cornell (206)
7. Duke (157)
8. Stanford (147)
9. Northwestern (99)
10. University of Pennsylvania (88)
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