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Students Seek Love Outside The Gates

They try to combine their social worlds as much as possible, Stratton says.

"I've really tried to make an effort to stay connected here and not be sucked away to the other school," he says.

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The Home Front

Most off-campus couples say it's difficult to make their relationships work. But many of them say that dating at Harvard has its own pitfalls.

Caroline N. Whitbeck '01 used to date a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston who she met at a BU party.

"On the whole I think BU kids

are more attractive and a lot less high-strung," she says.

But her relationship wasn't "a conscious anti-Harvard decision, it just plain happened," she wrote in an e-mail message. The proof? Her current boyfriend is a fellow Harvard student.

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