PSU Singles

PSU Singles is a dating site meant to help the single students, staff, alumni and fans of Penn State University hook up. The site has a clean, simple design and I found signing up for the free membership to be something that was fast and easy to do. The profiles in this site can have a lot of detail in them, but you can skip much of that if you want and fill it in later. Something I should say right up front is that almost all of the members of this site live in the general area of the university. If you don't live near there you can still use the site, but understand that there will probably not be very many (if any) members in your area.

If you do live in the area and use the site you will find searching the member's profiles to be very easy. There are two basic search options. The first is the normal search which allows you to select an age range and a distance from you and filter the results using those parameters. The advanced search is called Smart Match and it takes the details from your profile and uses those to match you with other people. If you skipped filling in those details when you signed up for the site you will need to go back and fill them in before this feature is of much use to you. While searching the site and checking out the profiles is free, you will need to get a paid membership if you want to contact anyone directly.

As much as I liked the search features I was a disappointed to see that they are basically the only features on this site. There are no interactive features like chat rooms or user forums. I would have liked to have seen more ways to communicate even if they were paid features.

My final score for this site is pretty low. The reason for this is the lack of extra features and the fact that most people will not live in the correct area to get much use out of this site. That said, if you do live in the Penn State area then this is a site you should ignore my rating and check the site out because there is a nice concentration of members in your area to contact and meet.