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[quote=Anonymous]OP - woman here and you are too picky. I'd say you are too picky even if you were 110lb, 5'9" and with a body to die for.

I am an Ivy League graduate who married another Ivy League graduate. You know how? I went to an Ivy and met him there. In fact, most of the men I dated in college were, due to sheer proximity and availability, Ivy League grads-to-be. Once you are out of school, their percentage in any large city distills to a small percentage of the general population. To limit your dating criteria to a small (and somewhat meaningless – I’ve met plenty of people as smart or smarter than me and my college friends who never did set foot near an Ivy) subset is not a good dating strategy. I can certainly understand limiting your dating pool to successful and/or well-educated and/or smart men, but why on earth would you limit it to only Ivy League grads? They are a tiny subset of a population and a lot of them are already married or otherwise unavailable (too old, too young, not interested in your gender, moved to Sri Lanka, whatever). Throw in the fact that you confess you are fat, not toned, and do not know how to flirt, and the amount of Ivy League grads with good families who would want to date you is vanishingly small.

A percentage of men who are smart and successful and who come from good families, who also either do not care about looks or are attracted to fat women is not a huge percentage of the available American male population to start with. With your self-imposed limitations of Ivy League, I think you’d have better luck finding a unicorn.

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