Anonymous wrote:Both are fine schools. Very different vibes, though. Many cities in CT are sketchy. Yale, Conn and Trinity are in older sketchy cities. UConn is in farm country. Wesleyan is in a slightly sketchy part of the state and has a can't get there from here location. Connecticut really has no college towns per se.
Maybe this explain why Fairfield is getting more popular.

+1 - good insights. Both are fine schools, but Connecticut is studded with older, crime ridden cities. Fairfield is the only one in a "good location." For family and personal reasons, DD wanted to go to school in CT but was very put off by New Haven, Hartford and Middletown. She liked Conn College but went elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:trinity is known as the destination for the wealthy New England prep school kid ranked in the bottom half of their class. Most are fun cool kids who don’t prioritize academics. The comment about wall street is accurate - the kids have personalities and know how to talk to people

Well the cds says 93% of freshmen were in the top half of the class, so maybe you are completely uninformed?

https://www.trincoll.edu/asic/wp-content/uploads/sites/125/2022/09/CDS_2021-2022_Trinity_College.pdf




(and by "maybe" I mean "definitely" so maybe don't post without doing even 10 seconds of googling? Then you won't look so silly.)

DP: Only 17.4% of students submitted a class rank. Most private high schools do not rank.

Anonymous wrote:trinity is known as the destination for the wealthy New England prep school kid ranked in the bottom half of their class. Most are fun cool kids who don’t prioritize academics. The comment about wall street is accurate - the kids have personalities and know how to talk to people

Has it pivoted in recent years? It’s admissions section on its website has a lot of strong social justice/BLM language that seems completely at odds with “prep school” vibes.

I am a new poster familiar with boarding schools. Boarding schools rarely--or possibly never--rank their students; so this stat about high class rank would not include boarding school or for that matter most other private school students because privates tend not to rank.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:trinity is known as the destination for the wealthy New England prep school kid ranked in the bottom half of their class. Most are fun cool kids who don’t prioritize academics. The comment about wall street is accurate - the kids have personalities and know how to talk to people

Well the cds says 93% of freshmen were in the top half of the class, so maybe you are completely uninformed?

https://www.trincoll.edu/asic/wp-content/uploads/sites/125/2022/09/CDS_2021-2022_Trinity_College.pdf




(and by "maybe" I mean "definitely" so maybe don't post without doing even 10 seconds of googling? Then you won't look so silly.)

No dog in this fight, but both of these facts can be true at the same time.

It says 93% of enrolled freshmen were in the top half of their class.

You tell me how that can be true and also that it can be a "destination for prep school kids in the bottom of their class".

I can only think of one way: that the 7% of the kids from the bottom half of their class were ALL from prep schools AND make up the entirety of the prep school kids who enroll.

That seems extremely unlikely, and without any supporting evidence there is no reason to believe it.

You don't need to have a "dog in this fight". It isn't a fight. So don't bring a dog. Bring facts.

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Anonymous wrote:trinity is known as the destination for the wealthy New England prep school kid ranked in the bottom half of their class. Most are fun cool kids who don’t prioritize academics. The comment about wall street is accurate - the kids have personalities and know how to talk to people

Well the cds says 93% of freshmen were in the top half of the class, so maybe you are completely uninformed?

https://www.trincoll.edu/asic/wp-content/uploads/sites/125/2022/09/CDS_2021-2022_Trinity_College.pdf




(and by "maybe" I mean "definitely" so maybe don't post without doing even 10 seconds of googling? Then you won't look so silly.)

No dog in this fight, but both of these facts can be true at the same time.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:trinity is known as the destination for the wealthy New England prep school kid ranked in the bottom half of their class. Most are fun cool kids who don’t prioritize academics. The comment about wall street is accurate - the kids have personalities and know how to talk to people

Well the cds says 93% of freshmen were in the top half of the class, so maybe you are completely uninformed?

https://www.trincoll.edu/asic/wp-content/uploads/sites/125/2022/09/CDS_2021-2022_Trinity_College.pdf




(and by "maybe" I mean "definitely" so maybe don't post without doing even 10 seconds of googling? Then you won't look so silly.)

thx - big difference between accepted and matriculating - but why let facts get in the way of your strawman argument and hazy generalizations -

The data above is for ENROLLED freshmen.

It says so right in the cds I linked to, just above the data referenced.

So you’re wrong again, which you wouldn’t have been if you’d just read what you responded to.

You’re not good at this and should stop.

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Anonymous wrote:trinity is known as the destination for the wealthy New England prep school kid ranked in the bottom half of their class. Most are fun cool kids who don’t prioritize academics. The comment about wall street is accurate - the kids have personalities and know how to talk to people

Well the cds says 93% of freshmen were in the top half of the class, so maybe you are completely uninformed?

https://www.trincoll.edu/asic/wp-content/uploads/sites/125/2022/09/CDS_2021-2022_Trinity_College.pdf




(and by "maybe" I mean "definitely" so maybe don't post without doing even 10 seconds of googling? Then you won't look so silly.)

thx - big difference between accepted and matriculating - but why let facts get in the way of your strawman argument and hazy generalizations -