Squek: The Crowning achivement of the NASI Project to date has been the breaking of the stigma that prevented boys from dating girls their own age or even slightly older. Such shiddcuhim are now commonplace and not even newsworthy.
OK: The point of the Chicago program and the other communities is NOT that 20 or 21 or whatever age the program starts is insuating that at that age the girls are “older” “passed over” etc. It’s simply and very effectvie method to generate significant attention for the girls who didn’t just start dating. The more shidduch attention such girls, get the better chance they have of gettig to the chuppah imy”h.
Such a concept will imy”h prevent or at least significantly alleviate the the shidduch crisis going forward.