Woman Waitlisted by The League Settles for Safety Dating App

After learning she’d been waitlisted by her dream dating app, The League, Sarah Morrison made the painful decision to go with her safety app, Bumble.

“When I saw how short the [League] email was, I just knew,” Morrison said. “Everyone says that where you decide to swipe won’t matter in 10 years, but right now, it just seems like the most important factor that’ll determine my future.”

The League, an exclusive dating app that culls users’ LinkedIn profiles and Facebook pictures and admits only the most elite applicants, reportedly has a 10 percent acceptance rate.

The sting of rejection was particularly sharp for Morrison, who’d already picked out what network she wanted to join and spent weeks daydreaming about hanging out with attractive, smiling Ivy Leaguers on a leafy quad. Morrison worries that other Bumble users won’t be as smart or motivated as she is.

“It’s like: I have several LinkedIn endorsements for Leadership, and I’m just not sure the other Bumble users will be on my level,” she explains.

Some 500 people apply to The League each day, and there are currently 156,318 would-be users on the waitlist.