poshute yid +1.
If BMG allowed it, children would go there just to say they are in BMG for “Shidduchim” purposes (he would be worth more years on the market). This way he actually has to put some time in first.
bigkhuna – You may be right, but that is too cynical for me.
The Goq – Not if you want the Chasivus of marrying a Lakewood Bochur. If girls were willing to marry without first looking at the prestige of their chassanim, the shidduch crisis would have been significantly reduced already.