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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]can someone compare UCD and Trinity - maybe by comparing to American schools.  Like is it BC and BU?  or .. something? [/quote]

Trinity was chartered by Queen Elizabeth I to be modeled on Oxford and Cambridge. It was an explicitly Anglican institution, so the Catholic Church founded UCD (originally “Catholic University”) in the mid-19th century to promulgate Catholic teachings.

Trinity is the old upper-crust institution, and UCD’s tradition is more Irish republican. UCD is also much bigger than Trinity, and it’s located outside the city center. So Harvard and…UMass? I don’t know if that totally tracks, but it’s probably directionally right?
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Except if you are actually Irish and in Ireland, Trinity has a reputation for being where the kids from certain schools go, especially when they don’t get in to UCD. I don’t want to name specific schools but there’s a group of expensive, wealthy schools where kids from D4, Dalkey, etc go and those all feed into Trinity but the reality is most of those kids also try for UcD and don’t get matched. Trinity is by far more beautiful and more of a traditional looking campus, but UCD is more rigorous and a better education and better reputation, esp for b-comm, accounting, etc 
I agree that the Irish system is nice in that you don’t have to take classes in things you’re not interested in, but it’s awful if you don’t know exactly what you want when you are 17 and apply. You do get pigeon holed into something and there’s no changing. My niece applied for something and got matched w/ something similar instead. She hates it but there’s no way to switch. We are dual citizens and have lived back and forth so I’ve seen a lot of kids slog through college once they realize what they’re in is not something they’re passionate about. I know very few high school kids who have had enough experience to be making such final decisions[/quote]

This is a weird take. Globally Trinity is considered the more superior institution. Just google all the rankings. [/quote]

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