Bruin Singles

Bruin Singles is a dating site that helps connect students, faculty, alumni and friends of UCLA. This is a site that is designed for a very specific group of people. If you are a member of that group, the site might work pretty well for you. If not, it really isn't going to be of much use.

Let's start at the beginning. The site has a nice looking design, decked out in Bruin colors and the free sign up is fast and easy to do. Your profile can have a lot of detail in it, but they let you skip most of that when you sign up and let you fill it in later if you want. The member's area is simple and easy to use with one basic menu that lists the few options this site has. The member base of this site is in and around the Los Angeles area. Almost all of the members reside there. If you live there, you will find somewhere near 500 women and 1000 men on the site who have profiles that you can contact. If you don't live in that area you will be lucky to find even one person who lives in your area.

The search options work really well. You can do a standard search which lets you search by age range and distance from you or you can use the Super Match feature which will use the details from your profile to match you with other members. You can search for people and look at the profiles for free, but you will have to get a paid membership if you want to contact someone from the site. Unfortunately, these are the only features on the site. There are no chat rooms or discussion forums. There are no instant messenger options or anything else. It is all about the profiles.

The bottom line is that if you are a Bruin and you live in the Los Angeles area, this is a decent site and you will probably like what you see. The reason I scored it low is that for the rest of people out there it really isn't worth their time to check out because there will be no members near them to meet up with.