This article reports a failure to replicate aspects of the Social Dating Goals Scale (SDGS; Sanderson & Cantor, 1995) with an ethnically diverse group of female college students. The SDGS was developed and validated with predominantly White samples. In the present study, a diverse sample of 82 Asian, Black, Hispanic and White female college students completed the SDGS, as well as construct validation measures of identity, attachment and sociosexuality, and self-reported dating and sexual behaviors. The findings for this diverse sample departed from those of the White samples reported earlier. It is suggested that these disparate findings may be due in part to a lack of validity of the ego identity constructs for ethnic minority adolescents as measured by the Revised Ego Identity Status Scale (Bennion & Adams, 1986). Suggestions for the extension of the social dating goals construct to include ethnic minority group members are offered.