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[quote=Anonymous]I graduated from Trinity in the 80s.  I went because I wanted a SLAC and it mostly filled the bill.  I chose it over Mt. Holyoke which, in retrospect, was perhaps a mistake as I think I would probably have liked Mt. Holyoke more.  :)  I was a mediocre student in high school, earned mostly Bs, and was not Bowdoin or Williams material.  However, I scored high SATs and had interesting extracurriculars.

I loved the academics there (they are excellent), and did very well in that regards, outgrowing my high school laziness and earning excellent grades.  The size was a good fit for me as well.  I am still in touch with a couple of professors from Trinity, one of whom we visit with every year at the holidays.  Years after graduating from Trinity, I applied to law school and had no trouble getting recommendations from professors because they remembered me well.  The experience is *that* personal.

My college classmates have all done very well professionally.  Most went on to earn graduate or professional degrees at good schools.

On the down side:  Hartford is a crappy little city, IMO.  Trinity is in a very dicey neighborhood, or at least it was dicey when I attended.  Greek life is super-prevalent, which may be a plus or a minus depending on the student - for me it was a huge minus, and colored my experience negatively.  The student body is by and large, conservative and preppy.  Most of my classmates were from affluent families and had attended private schools, vastly different from my very middle class, public high school background.

I have the impression that Trinity's reputation is not as good as it was a decade or two ago.  But I don't know what the data are on that.[/quote]

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