When you fall in love and choose to spend your life with that person, it can feel like a fairytale. But not everyone's love story begins that way. A lot of people in India still find their partners through arranged marriages. And with the number of platforms available today, it's almost like Tinder or Bumble, just with the family sitting on the same couch.
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Just like dating apps, arranged marriage platforms offer filters and preferences too: food habits, lifestyle choices, family values; everything that helps measure compatibility. And yes, salary packages do show up as part of the selection criteria.
But there's now another layer to this matchmaking process: the prestige of your degree. Surely, education matters, but this is something more specific; the institution you graduated from may become a deciding factor.
Imagine a matrimonial platform that only accepts profiles of alumni from top Indian and global colleges
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