Perhaps not without daydreaming about your crush, but your survey responses can!
Join us on this journey to learn about some of the preferences and habits we've discovered from several years of survey responses!
In 2026, we received 3,458 valid responses. Thank you all for filling out the survey and helping spread love at Cornell! Here is a look at some of the results.
44% of project team members picked project teams. 23% of everyone else did.
Participants could choose more than one.
53% of women say their date does.
Only 14% like to receive it that way.
46% gave the same answer to both questions.
Percentages are rounded. Answers chosen by fewer than 10 participants are not shown. Participants who gave their gender as non-binary individual or other are not included in comparisons by gender due to a small sample size.
Absolutely not! All user data collected from our surveys is anonymized, and then privately stored. Only your name and provided contact information is shared, and that is only with your matches.
Preserving the privacy of our participants is our utmost concern and is rooted behind every decision made in crafting these visualizations. We have taken several measures to remove any identifiable characteristics from the data we have collected, and the resulting datasets are randomly shuffled.
These visualizations were generated using the ApexCharts and d3 JavaScript libraries.
Absolutely not! All of your data is stored privately and will not be viewed by any third party.
Your data is safe with us! We will never share your data with a third party advertisers, and we will only interact with your information as needed to resolve user issues. We may collect anonymous statistics to improve our algorithm, but your identity will always be separated from such reports.
Anonymized statistics are published each year on our website and provided to media and student groups for publications. In the past, these are included Cornell Daily Sun, Big Red Heads, Cornell Chronicle, etc.
For media requests, please reach out at perfectmatch@cornell.edu.
We greatly encourage you to reach out to us with any questions or concerns that you may have regarding data privacy. In fact, feedback from the Cornell community already has and will continue to be used in to improve our algorithm and measures to protect privacy. We can be reached at perfectmatch@cornell.edu.