How Do You Sign Up for Tinder U?

Open Edit Info, scroll to the School or College field and add your school. Then tap Apply for Tinder U, enter your student email address and verify it. Once the email is verified, you can add your graduation year, major, clubs and school colors, plus Greek life if you are in the US.

Start by tapping the Profile icon, then tap Edit Info. That is the screen where you edit what people see on your card.

Scroll down to the field labelled School or College, and add your school. Pick the right one, since the student email you verify next needs to come from it.

Tap Apply for Tinder U. Tinder asks for your student email address, such as a .edu address in the US or one ending in .ac.uk in the UK, and then asks you to verify it.

When verification goes through, you are in. The extra school fields open up at that point.

The first thing to check is whether you qualify at all. Tinder U is only for students enrolled at a select group of schools. Each one has to be 4-year, accredited and not-for-profit, with traditional face-to-face classes. You also need a valid student email.

Then rule out the simple things. Check the address you typed for a mistake, and look in your student inbox, including the junk folder, for anything Tinder sent to verify it.

If you do qualify and it still fails, the problem may be on Tinder's side. Tinder says to contact them if your school's email domain is wrong, so report it rather than giving up.

Do not try to get around the rules with somebody else's student email. It breaks Tinder's eligibility rules, and if it comes out, it is a strange thing to explain to a woman on your own campus.

Once you are verified, Tinder lets you add your graduation year, your major, your clubs and your school colors. In the US you can add Greek life as well.

Fill in only what is true, and think about what each detail gives her to work with. A major tells her a little. Clubs tell her a lot, because they show what you choose to do with your free time. A club is also the easiest thing for her to ask about.

Greek life is a strong signal either way. For some women, a particular house is a plus. For others, it says a type of weekend they are not looking for. If it is a real part of your life, include it. If you joined and then drifted away, leave it out.

The school details give you shared ground before either of you has typed a word. Use it, but do not turn it into a quiz.

a dating coach warns against interview mode, where you ask one factual question after another and she does all the work. "What year are you?" and "What's your major?" are the campus version of that. She already answered both on her card.

Instead, build on what you share. You know the same library, the same awful dining hall, the same bar that everyone ends up in on a Thursday. A light tease about something you both know gives her an easy, fun reply, and it makes a plan to grab a drink nearby feel natural.

Her clubs are the richest source. If she lists the climbing club, you might write: "I've seen that climbing wall. I've also seen people fall off it. Which one are you?" It takes five seconds to read, it is about her rather than you, and it is hard to answer with one dull word. If she writes back with a story, you are already halfway to asking her out.

Keep in mind that campus news travels. a dating program's advice about dating at school is that women there talk to each other and trust the men their friends vouch for. Write the kind of messages you would not mind her friends reading.

Tinder U changes who you see. It does not change what she sees when your card comes up.

Your photos still do a lot of the work, and your few lines of text still decide whether she has anything to answer. A man with a strong, specific page on Tinder U does well because the pool is close and full of things in common. A man with a weak one just gets passed over by women who live nearby.

So once the sign-up is done, give your page the same attention you gave the email verification. That is the part that turns a shared campus into actual dates.