<p>Why Trinity is never on the lists for top schools.</p>
<p>Trinity seems like an exceptional school and I hear has the education level equivalent to ivy league schools. Why is it not highly ranked?</p>
<p>I’ll throw in here. You’ll get many different opinions because it’s very subjective, but I think it starts with endowment. </p>
<p>Trinity has an endowment of 340K per student, which is very good compared to similar schools in the area - Southwestern 173k, Hendrix 93k, Austin College 81k. But with the Ivy League Schools it’s not close - Yale is about 3 million per student and Harvard is almost 4 million. Rice comes in at just a little over 1 million. That’s dollars of endowment per underclass student.</p>
<p>There’s a lot of factors and I’m only throwing out one, but I feel it all starts with the money and alumni giving.</p>
<p>But how is academic rigor, and percent of students who work to highest ability, compared to other LAC ranked, for example between 40 to 80 (if that is a comparable group)?</p>
<p>The endowment for Trinity is huge for a college of that size, huge. See the other thread on the Trinity forum about why its still classified as 'regional" so doesn’t make the lists it should in the US News and World Report, for instance. it really is a LAC with one grad degree program in ed. so it gets relegated to competing against real U’s. with as the poster above said, have larger endowments. They should do what U. Richmond did…somehow separating out their small grad program so they qualify for LAC status and would get much more visibility.</p>
<p>Ohh I see, that really is quite saddening. In my situation and to my family the ranking of a school matters ALOT. From what I hear Trinity is ranked 1 in the western region of the U.S in terms of education seventeen years in a row.</p>
<p>1bie792, from what I hear Trinity is an excellent university and some even nick name it The “Princeton of the South.” in my scenario due to it not being a ranked school (I’m from the UK but live in the US.) according to my parents, the school I choose to attend must be a damn good one.</p>
<p>^
Like Blinn?</p>
<p>Yes, I’m choosing a college to transfer into.</p>
<p>Your point? Maybe I should rephrase, they want me to graduate from a college that is ranked rather highly.</p>
<p>Better look elsewhere, because if the SATs you posted are real, you don’t have a chance at TU. They are a requirement if you have been out of HS for less than 5 years.</p>
<p>[Trinity</a> University in San Antonio, Texas](<a href=“College Search Database: Find Your College Match | Cappex”>College Search Database: Find Your College Match | Cappex)</p>
<p>Chart of the GPA’s and the SAT’s of both accepted and rejected students. </p>
<p>I think im well qualified to attend this college with a GPA of a 3.8 at Blinn and a 1920 SAT score :)</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>That is not transfer.</p>
<p>3.8 GPA and a 1920 SAT score (Which isn’t that bad) will get me in.</p>
<p>Now your just trying to be annoying, my GPA is substantially higher than the average accepted. They even accept people with GPA’s as low as 3.0, its obvious I would be accepted.</p>
<p>besides I don’t want to debate something so obvious, tuck your tail between your legs and run along now.</p>
<p>dgkblack,</p>
<p>You have posted three different SAT scores, and more than one cc GPA.</p>
<p>Do your parents understand that transferring to a 4-year private university from cc is much more difficult than private 4-year to another private 4-year?</p>
<p>Transferring into TU is more difficult than getting in from hs, as well. You are in the pool with other transfers, and the vast majority of them will not have had crummy hs GPAs. You will still have to have met the original course requirements that FY applicants meet. That’s why your hs transcript is required.</p>
<p>Do not assume all your credits will transfer, either. If the course content doesn’t match a course at TU, it won’t be worth anything. With publics it is different, if they have an articulation agreement.</p>
<p>Educate yourself and your parents, and look somewhere other than Trinity.</p>
<p>The end!!</p>
<p>Gloworm,</p>
<p>I would much rather not argue in this thread but perhaps you may be confused. I as of now do not have my official transcripts but I do know for a fact that:</p>
<p>1) First time I took the SAT it was in the 1700’s.</p>
<p>2) Second time I took the SAT it was in the 1900’s</p>
<p>3) My GPA in high school was a 2.9ish? Bad, but my CC GPA is a 3.8.</p>
<p>As I stated before you had even posted here, I no longer have interest in this university. With a school that receives roughly five thousand applicants, (The majority of them being from HS) I doubt I would have to compete against any other private school transfers.</p>
<p>Whether my credits will transfer or not is none of your business and has nothing to do with my chance of admission.</p>
<p>I find it amazing that you are so close minded to tell me that I do not have a chance to get into Trinity University and it’s not even worth my application. I find that pretty offensive.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>The end.</p>