<p>But very different Trinity is small and private. UCSD is big and public. My son looked at both and choose the former.</p>
<p>Accepted!! International Student–Also got 20,000$ per year as a Summit Scholar</p>
<p>Stats: </p>
<p>3.3 GPA (weighted)
SAT I 1800 superscored
SAT II 800 and 670
Lots of EC’s
50 hrs of community service
Excellent Rec’s</p>
<p>P.S: I know a lot of you guys did not get in and have way better stats than I do. This is the same reason why I am telling you not to feel bad about this decision. My first choice college also rejected me, and accepted others with less stats than what I had. I think college is just a matter of luck sometimes, and I gotta say, I got lucky with Trinity. I wish you the best with your college journey!</p>
<p>Lol, I doubt you needed financial aid :P</p>
<p>Congrats to whoever got accepted and sorry for the rejected kids. I know the process has ended a long time ago but I just want to give my 2 cents in case any prospective students might read it in the future. Please do not accuse trinity of only accepting wealthy kids. That’s totally wrong. I am an international student who are given a grant of 50+ thousand a year, and many of my international friends don’t even have to contribute a penny. Trinity is one of the most generous schools ever, I have to admit. They sometimes even give you more money than you ask for. Several friends of mine can attest to this. </p>
<p>It’s true that Trinity accepts a lot of rich kids from Connecticut (New Canaan, Greenwich, Darien…) but please bear in my that we are not harvard or yale with an endowment of 20+ billion. Trinity’s is like 400 million, so the school can only afford to accept a small amount of poor but “exceptional” (that’s what they say) students. Almost all the freshmen from my country scored 2200+ on the SAT, some got around 2300. We are all in the top 10%, if not 5% or 1%. Tons of ECs, excellent recs, showed strong interest in the school (We all wrote Why trinity essay, even though it’s not mandatory. Some even knitted a scarf with Trinity’s mascot in it.) We did everything in our power to show that Trinity was the place we wanted to spend the next 4 years of our lives. </p>
<p>Plus, as someone has mentioned before, there are scholarships that do not take into account your family’s contribution: merit based scholarships (Most notably, the Presidential Scholarship, which grants full tuition, about 44k/yr. And if you still need more money, you will be automatically considered for financial aid) But they only have like 10 slots per year, and believe me, those people are darn smart. In order to compete with them, my Asian mode has to be switched on all the time, even in math classes like Calculus, something we all did in sophomore year of high school!</p>
<p>In short, please don’t be like “Trinity doesnt care about low income students. They only accept white rich kids!” because you know you are dead wrong. If you want to get in with a lot of financial aid, you must be good. That’s all. Why would Trinity give you 50 thousand a year when many other students also get ~2000 on the SAT and are willing to pay full? Why would Trinity accept you if you only consider it a safety? Next time please be more circumspect before alleging something like that. Thank you! </p>
<p>Btw sorry for my cursory and unadorned post. I need to go back to my homework soon. Its finals time already…</p>
<p>Trinity is the kind of College which gives out almost all of its financial aid to ED applicants. That might have been one crucial reason why so many of the candidates needing fin aid are either wait-listed (genereally the high school seniors) or rejected( generally students in their gap year) in RD.
I , myself, was rejected by Trinity in ED I( poor me!), but it gives me pleasure to say that Trinity is one of the best college one would ever imagine for international students needing financial aid.</p>
<p>Yesterday my child got an email from Trinity - a video email from the young woman who interviewed him…it was personalized with his name, and a few comments about how well his sports team did this year, etc. Just a few encouraging words about his acceptance to the school and if he had any questions. I wonder if every kid that was accepted got this? It was really nice…and even tho’ he did decide on another school, I thought it was a great gesture on Trinity’s part to reach out to potential students in a very personal way!</p>
<p>My son who was accepted RD also got a wonderful personalized video. Although he isn’t going to Trinity, I thought it was a “warm and fuzzy” and as a parent, I really appreciated the time and effort!</p>