Trinity College V Connecticut College?

[Anonymous]

Need to add on some schools for my DC who wants a liberal arts college in New England. I had always thought Connecticut was slightly above Trinity in terms of selectivity, but the data looks otherwise - is Trinity harder to get into? Please also share your experiences with the two schools. I’m aware of location differences, but want to get a feeling for campus culture.

[Anonymous]

A lot of preppies and boarding school students like Trinity. I'm not familiar with Connecticut C.

[Anonymous]

They are pretty similar selectivity-wise. I think Conn offers more in merit aid to more people -- my understanding is pretty much everyone with no demonstrated need gets $30,000 in merit aid. But perhaps Trinity does as well.

Trinity is a little preppier and more pre-professional. Conn has more artsy students. Both have a lot of athletes. Trinity has greek life, which makes the social scene different.

[Anonymous]

Trinity, for all its warts, has traditionally had a pretty good pipeline to finance jobs, if that could be a factor.

[Anonymous]

They are nearly neck and neck in terms of acceptance rates with something like Trinity being 4% more competitive (which is moot).

Visit, see for yourself.

[Anonymous]

Visited them both last summer.

Trinity campus itself is quite nice. However, it's in a neighborhood that's really really not good.

Connecticut campus is drab. Buildings look quite tired. Surrounding area is not as bad as Trinity but still pretty depressing.

[Anonymous]

We visited both in Feb 2020. I would have thought Trinity was more selective, but I didn't look at the numbers. DS was put off by the "finance bro" tour guide we had at Trinity; I thought the campus was beautiful. DS liked the feel of Connecticut College. It seemed really cloistered to me, like an old-school women's college, which I guess it is. DS ended up applying to CC, but not Trinity. He was accepted, but ended up going elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Visited them both last summer.

Trinity campus itself is quite nice. However, it's in a neighborhood that's really really not good.

Connecticut campus is drab. Buildings look quite tired. Surrounding area is not as bad as Trinity but still pretty depressing.

Ha. We did a USCGA visit last year. Overly sheltered DS was horrified by New London, but then we took a wrong turn in Hartford and he quickly decided it wasn't so bad after all. I'd be nervous sending my child to Trinity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Visited them both last summer.

Trinity campus itself is quite nice. However, it's in a neighborhood that's really really not good.

Connecticut campus is drab. Buildings look quite tired. Surrounding area is not as bad as Trinity but still pretty depressing.

Odd comment - Conn usually gets high marks for its beautiful campus, quad and architecture, plus views of the Thames river and the sound on a nice day. But to each his own.

While New London is not Greenwich, it is also quite a bit better than the neighborhood of Hartford adjacent to Trinity. But I am also a big fan of Trinity, the campus itself is lovely and they provide a great education, and even have engineering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Visited them both last summer.

Trinity campus itself is quite nice. However, it's in a neighborhood that's really really not good.

Connecticut campus is drab. Buildings look quite tired. Surrounding area is not as bad as Trinity but still pretty depressing.

Odd comment - Conn usually gets high marks for its beautiful campus, quad and architecture, plus views of the Thames river and the sound on a nice day. But to each his own.

While New London is not Greenwich, it is also quite a bit better than the neighborhood of Hartford adjacent to Trinity. But I am also a big fan of Trinity, the campus itself is lovely and they provide a great education, and even have engineering.

The Conn campus is beautiful! I suppose it depends on how much you anticipate your child will spend off-campus. I personally had zero issues with New London, but it creeped DS out.

- the other PP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Visited them both last summer.

Trinity campus itself is quite nice. However, it's in a neighborhood that's really really not good.

Connecticut campus is drab. Buildings look quite tired. Surrounding area is not as bad as Trinity but still pretty depressing.

Ha. We did a USCGA visit last year. Overly sheltered DS was horrified by New London, but then we took a wrong turn in Hartford and he quickly decided it wasn't so bad after all. I'd be nervous sending my child to Trinity.

Is the area really that bad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Visited them both last summer.

Trinity campus itself is quite nice. However, it's in a neighborhood that's really really not good.

Connecticut campus is drab. Buildings look quite tired. Surrounding area is not as bad as Trinity but still pretty depressing.

Ha. We did a USCGA visit last year. Overly sheltered DS was horrified by New London, but then we took a wrong turn in Hartford and he quickly decided it wasn't so bad after all. I'd be nervous sending my child to Trinity.

Is the area really that bad?

Oh yes. I live in Hartford and love it but no one goes to that part of the city if they don’t live, work or study there. It couldn’t possibly be less safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Visited them both last summer.

Trinity campus itself is quite nice. However, it's in a neighborhood that's really really not good.

Connecticut campus is drab. Buildings look quite tired. Surrounding area is not as bad as Trinity but still pretty depressing.

Ha. We did a USCGA visit last year. Overly sheltered DS was horrified by New London, but then we took a wrong turn in Hartford and he quickly decided it wasn't so bad after all. I'd be nervous sending my child to Trinity.

Is the area really that bad?

Yeah. Probably mostly safe during the day though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Visited them both last summer.

Trinity campus itself is quite nice. However, it's in a neighborhood that's really really not good.

Connecticut campus is drab. Buildings look quite tired. Surrounding area is not as bad as Trinity but still pretty depressing.

Ha. We did a USCGA visit last year. Overly sheltered DS was horrified by New London, but then we took a wrong turn in Hartford and he quickly decided it wasn't so bad after all. I'd be nervous sending my child to Trinity.

Is the area really that bad?

Oh yes. I live in Hartford and love it but no one goes to that part of the city if they don’t live, work or study there. It couldn’t possibly be less safe.

Worse than Capitol Hill or NOMA? Do the kids hang out off campus at all? Bars? Restaurants? Parties? Where do they go off campus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Visited them both last summer.

Trinity campus itself is quite nice. However, it's in a neighborhood that's really really not good.

Connecticut campus is drab. Buildings look quite tired. Surrounding area is not as bad as Trinity but still pretty depressing.

Ha. We did a USCGA visit last year. Overly sheltered DS was horrified by New London, but then we took a wrong turn in Hartford and he quickly decided it wasn't so bad after all. I'd be nervous sending my child to Trinity.

Is the area really that bad?

Oh yes. I live in Hartford and love it but no one goes to that part of the city if they don’t live, work or study there. It couldn’t possibly be less safe.

Worse than Capitol Hill or NOMA? Do the kids hang out off campus at all? Bars? Restaurants? Parties? Where do they go off campus?

They don’t go off campus very much from what I heard when visiting.