Thoughts on Trinity College in Hartford?

[Anonymous]

I’m curious why it seems to fly below the radar when it’s ranked the same as F&M and Lafayette.

[Anonymous]

The safety school of the northeast….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The safety school of the northeast….

+1

[Anonymous]

It's one of the lesser schools of the NESCACs.

A good place for B average rich and private school kids to land.

I think it's a bit more conservative than many other LACs

[Anonymous]

Preppy mediocre private school kids

[Anonymous]

Crappier town, maybe? Easton’s not amazing but it’s got more to offer than Hartford. And Lancaster is genuinely nice.

[Anonymous]

Camp Trin-Trin

[Anonymous]

I went to HS in Greenwich CT and had not heard of it by the time I left there. I knew about UConn and Connecticut College, obviously Yale, but not this one. Though I've since met people who went there and loved it.

[Anonymous]

I would be interested in a side by side comparison of Trinity and Conn…

[Anonymous]

I am sure if you looked hard enough you could find an alum at ANY college you find detestable.

[Anonymous]

It's the type of place where your kid can drop out of another college and Trinity will enroll your kid mid-year for full pay no application needed if you're an alum.

Take from that what you will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would be interested in a side by side comparison of Trinity and Conn…

I visited both with DS in the summer.

Trinity has a nice campus and is pretty self-contained, but the surrounding neighborhood is awful. Conn campus looked pretty tired (older buildings), and the surrounding neighborhood is quite run down, but not as awful as Trinity. One nice thing about Conn is the athletic facilities have a nice view of the river, and the college has its own boathouse.

They have roughly similar admit rates and similar students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the type of place where your kid can drop out of another college and Trinity will enroll your kid mid-year for full pay no application needed if you're an alum.

Take from that what you will.

yep.

I am from Connecticut. It's a mediocre school for mediocre students. Many of whom end up on Wall Street.
Note that I didn't say dumb kids. Many of them are intelligent but not hard working.
My best friend's daughter is a current student. She could have done better (full pay; came from a well known boarding school) but she kind of half asses everything. So, Trinity it is.

[Anonymous]

The Trinity grads I know (whom I like very much, fwiw) very much fit the rich, preppy stereotype. It’s almost comical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's the type of place where your kid can drop out of another college and Trinity will enroll your kid mid-year for full pay no application needed if you're an alum.

Take from that what you will.

yep.

I am from Connecticut. It's a mediocre school for mediocre students. Many of whom end up on Wall Street.
Note that I didn't say dumb kids. Many of them are intelligent but not hard working.
My best friend's daughter is a current student. She could have done better (full pay; came from a well known boarding school) but she kind of half asses everything. So, Trinity it is.

Thank you for your candid comment.