Huh. Here I'd been thinking my classmates were there for the same reasons I was: The high-caliber education, top-tier faculty, abundant connections to other local schools (Boston area), and not just toleration of but encouragement toward my own spiritual and religious explorations at that stage in my life.

A handful of my best friends even became Catholic priests, so I guess if their parents sent them there to marry, it didn't work out very well.

> A handful of my best friends even became Catholic priests, so I guess if their parents sent them there to marry, it didn't work out very well.

Assuming the parents are authentic Catholics, they would send them there to find their vocation, whether that is marriage or holy orders. Seen through that lens, it worked out very well indeed.

Sure. My point was just counter- the dismissive parent post that treated Christian schools like a marriage market.

Well, they ended up married to Jesus.

Married to the Church, in Catholic theology, but yes ;)

In the Christian circles I grew up in, women used to say they were in college to get their MRS degree.

Same exact saying in the Jewish circles I grew up in :)

As a return college student, my college is just filled with women who are at college to rack up absurd amounts of debt for worthless fields making subpar art or papers. Also the typical trip to europe that costs 3x the amount it does if you did it yourself.

The old "MRS" degree