New England SLACS...Trinity College why so few submit SAT scores?

[Anonymous]

Trinity College:
9% submitted an SAT score
25%-50%-75%
1340-1385-1453

The conventional wisdom is do most likely submit if your SAT is above the 25% and definitely submit if it is above 1385. I am surprised at how few submit and how low the SAT scores are. From these numbers it doesn't appear to be that selective.

Even Conn College has a higher submittal rate: 54% submit. Its SAT scores are lower, 1160-1280-1400. But still not "overly" selective.

Wesleyan's is 41% submit. 1300-1420-1500. Definitely more competitive, but not like most of the private colleges in the T50 in national universities.

It looks like the quality of student is not as high as one would expect. Is it a function that the high scorers gravitate to research private schools? While not a SLAC Tufts has a higher quality student on paper than Wesleyan. (Same for other NE privates like Harvard, MIT, BU, Northeastern, BC, etc.)

[Anonymous]

Wow, I didn’t realize the submission rate is that low. Trinity & Conn are a big step further down in prestige, selectivity, and academic intensity from the rest of the NESCACs. That’s not to say you don’t find strong students there, you do. But not as many.

[Anonymous]

What are you trying to say? That test score indicates stronger student quality and performance?

[Anonymous]

Based on the most recent CDS for Bates, 14.96% of attending students reported SAT results and 4.71% of attending students reported ACT results.

[Anonymous]

You lost all credibility the moment you put Northeastern in the same category as Harvard and MIT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You lost all credibility the moment you put Northeastern in the same category as Harvard and MIT.

Northeastern's SAT stats blow Trinity College's out of the water. I guess you were too obtuse to figure that point out.

[Anonymous]

Op - You need a hobby

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trinity College:
9% submitted an SAT score
25%-50%-75%
1340-1385-1453

The conventional wisdom is do most likely submit if your SAT is above the 25% and definitely submit if it is above 1385. I am surprised at how few submit and how low the SAT scores are. From these numbers it doesn't appear to be that selective.

Even Conn College has a higher submittal rate: 54% submit. Its SAT scores are lower, 1160-1280-1400. But still not "overly" selective.

Wesleyan's is 41% submit. 1300-1420-1500. Definitely more competitive, but not like most of the private colleges in the T50 in national universities.

It looks like the quality of student is not as high as one would expect. Is it a function that the high scorers gravitate to research private schools? While not a SLAC Tufts has a higher quality student on paper than Wesleyan. (Same for other NE privates like Harvard, MIT, BU, Northeastern, BC, etc.)

How many report the ACT? What are the ACT submission percentages?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trinity College:
9% submitted an SAT score
25%-50%-75%
1340-1385-1453

The conventional wisdom is do most likely submit if your SAT is above the 25% and definitely submit if it is above 1385. I am surprised at how few submit and how low the SAT scores are. From these numbers it doesn't appear to be that selective.

Even Conn College has a higher submittal rate: 54% submit. Its SAT scores are lower, 1160-1280-1400. But still not "overly" selective.

Wesleyan's is 41% submit. 1300-1420-1500. Definitely more competitive, but not like most of the private colleges in the T50 in national universities.

It looks like the quality of student is not as high as one would expect. Is it a function that the high scorers gravitate to research private schools? While not a SLAC Tufts has a higher quality student on paper than Wesleyan. (Same for other NE privates like Harvard, MIT, BU, Northeastern, BC, etc.)

As has been discussed on this board several times, the data Wesleyan reports on its CDS reflects the test scores of all matriculating students who sat for a test, not just those that submitted a score with the application. All incoming freshman must submit a score whether they did so with the application or not. Consequently, theCDS range skews “lower” than other comparable TO schools (if you think Northeastern, BU, and BC are materially better, I don’t know what to tell you.) To get an idea of what the distribution would look like for admitted applicants who submitted scores, I would suggest you look at Wes’s very detailed class profile information on the website. I offer this not to rebut this stupid argument that test scores are the single measure of student quality (get bent NoVa mom) but to inform applicants considering applying TO. This seems like an anti SLAC post in sheep’s clothing anyway.

[Anonymous]

"the data Wesleyan reports on its CDS reflects the test scores of all matriculating students who sat for a test, not just those that submitted a score with the application"

On its 2023-2024 CDS, Wesleyan reported a submission rate of 52% for the SAT and 19% for the ACT, with a middle-range SAT profile of 1300 to 1500 and a middle-range ACT profile of 31 to 34.

[Anonymous]

Is your child choosing between Trinity and Wesleyan?

[Anonymous]

Trinity's 2025-26 CDS is up. 7% submitted SAT, 3% submitted ACT.

https://www.trincoll.edu/asic/wp-content/uploads/sites/125/2025/07/CDS-2024-2025-Trinity-College.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trinity's 2025-26 CDS is up. 7% submitted SAT, 3% submitted ACT.

https://www.trincoll.edu/asic/wp-content/uploads/sites/125/2025/07/CDS-2024-2025-Trinity-College.pdf

Surprising. Is this a canary in the coal mine of Trinity going down the Conn College path?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"the data Wesleyan reports on its CDS reflects the test scores of all matriculating students who sat for a test, not just those that submitted a score with the application"

On its 2023-2024 CDS, Wesleyan reported a submission rate of 52% for the SAT and 19% for the ACT, with a middle-range SAT profile of 1300 to 1500 and a middle-range ACT profile of 31 to 34.

The CDS instructs schools to report on the percentage of admitted first time applicants who submitted scores (in bold), then instructs schools to report “ For each assessment listed below, report the score that represents the 25th percentile (the score that 25 percent of the first-time, first-year population scored at or below) and the 75th percentile score (the score that 25 percent scored at or above).” (Also in bold.) Population, not applicants. Perhaps a bit misleading if you don’t know Wes’s process. Not really here to argue about it though. Go ahead and submit a 1350 unhooked, even in ED, and see how that works out.

[Anonymous]

There is a huge gap in student quality as measured by the SAT between Amherst and Williams as compared to Conn College, Trinity. Wesleyan is kind of in the middle.