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[quote=Anonymous]Vis a vis merit aid, I think Trinity College is a cautionary tale. It has a very tiny merit program - 2 pct of students. It’s really in trouble because it’s completely reliant on rich families but it doesn’t have the academic profile to attract them like it perhaps once did.  It ranked number one in percentage of students with families in the top 20 pct income wise. It’s really leaning on rich families and they ain’t sending their best and brightest now. Participation in test optional is very high there. So you’ve got a situation where it’s a lot of rich kids who are kind of the bottom of the prep school barrel and then a lot of low income kids. But it’s got an $800 million endowment which keeps it on life support. This school is acting like it is Bowdoin or Williams but it’s not- the academics have slipped and the demand just isn’t there. Trinity would be well advised to get some momentum going and start paying up for talented kids. It has an infrastructure and a legacy to build upon. But it’s on a downward spiral [/quote]

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