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By ERIN YOON and RACHEL KODYSH Sun Staff Writer and Sun Contributor

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, it is officially love season and, more importantly, Perfect Match season at Cornell. Whether in a relationship or looking for one, Cornellians are looking forward to the special time of year.

Jason Katz ’23, a member of the Perfect Match executive board, hopes that the website will bring connection and happiness to the campus community.

“When you use dating apps online, there are so many people to choose from that you kind of lose the value of one person,” Katz said.

According to the team, Perfect Match has made many changes from last year’s iteration to appeal to users' requests and suggestions. They are instituting a new AI approach meant to generate more precise matches.

“I’m hoping people find love,” said Grace Wilkey ’24, an executive board member responsible for marketing. “I think that the way that we’ve changed the algorithm, there’s a lot more promise of success.”

For this year’s survey, the Perfect Match team has asked more in-depth questions to its respondents, ranging from the worst thing a match could wear to a date to whether or not one would want their match to have a similar personality as them.