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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=baltimoreguy][quote=Anonymous]DD recently visited this school.  Liked it (not so much the nearby neighborhood) but we have heard that while the school is "good" and one can get a good education, its a school that we're told is comprised of many "Ivy" rejects and that the student body is not really that happy. 
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[b]Pretty much any New England small liberal arts college (except maybe Amherst and Williams) is full of Ivy rejects - not sure there are hundreds of people enrolling in Colby over Dartmouth or Bowdoin over Princeton.[/b]

My impression of Trinity is that there were two kinds of students. The studious kids who didn't quite have the stats for the Ivy League and were perhaps disappointed to be at "only" Trinity. And then there were the smart, underachieving preppy kids who didn't have great grades because they weren't very studious, but were still smart enough to put together SAT scores. Those kids seemed to love Trinity - go to most classes but not all, do a decent amount of homework but not tons, and party hard 3 or 4 nights a week.

In recent years, Trinity has been trying to scale back on the preppy party kids and ramp up on the academics. Paradoxically, it seems they are turning off their core audience - the preppy partiers - while not significantly increasing their appeal to higher academic achievers.[/quote]

I've got 2 kids who have recently been through college admissions.  They're at an Ivy, but I can tell you that their friends who went to the top SLACs aren't "Ivy League rejects".  They wanted what the SLACs have to offer that is different from the Ivies and Ivy-competitive research universities.  Students don't leave Bowdoin, Williams, Middlebury or Amherst to transfer to a bigger school. the high transfer rate at Trinity (don't know if it's 85% as cited above, but I've heard it's high) sets it apart. [/quote]

I agree that for most of the kids who go to the top SLACs are not Ivy League rejects. The top 5 schools are very hard to get into and draw a different crowd from those who apply to Harvard or Brown or Penn (but not Dartmouth). But I don't think anyone at Trinity is an Ivy League reject. Two very different populations. If you apply to am Ivy, you are not also applying to Trinity, unless it's your way backup. Or, you think you can get into HYP because of squash.[/quote]

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