RIT Singles

RIT Singles is a dating site that is primarily for the students, staff, alumni and friends of the Rochester Institute of Technology. You don't have to be involved with the school to use the site, but for it to work well you do need to live in the general area of the school. There are around 500 members in this site with a pretty even split between men and women. Almost all of them live near the school so if you live outside of that area chances are there will be no members near you.

Signing up for this site is a quick and easy process. As you create your profile you can add a lot of detail to it, but they let you skip much of that during the sign up process. You can go back and fill that detail in later if you do find you like the site and want to use it. You can search the members using two different search options. The more advanced of the two is called Smart Match. This search takes the details from your profile and uses them to match you to other people. You will need to fill in the details on your profile for this to work correctly. The basic search option allows you to select an age range and a distance from you and filter the members that way. You can sign up, search and look at people's profiles for free, but you will have to get a paid membership of you want to contact people directly.

Where the site really falls short is on the bonus features. There really aren't any to speak of. Many dating sites now offer different types of interactive features like chat rooms and user forums. I was sad to see that this site doesn't offer any of those.

Essentially this is one of those sites that a few people will find very useful while most will find useless. If you are like me and don't live near the school then the site has nothing really to offer you and that is why I scored it on the lower end. However, if you live near the school then this is a site that could work well for you because it has a decent number of members concentrated in one small area. If that is your case forget what I have said and give the site a look.