<p>A few days ago a coach of mine pointed me in the direction of Trinity College in Hartford. As i began to check it out i started to really like the schools athletic program as well as its gorgeous campus and academic programs. Although the school looks great to me, the Princeton Review placed it #20 for least happy students a
d #1 for Town-Gown relationships are strained. Are these stats true? Do students really dislike going to such a great school and if so why? What makes the relationship between Trinity and Hartford so strained? Will it effect the nightlife of the school?</p>
<p>You may find it helpful to click on the “CC Top Liberal Arts College” link and read the posts for Trinity. There is typically some concern about the surrounding neighborhood, which is socioeconomically and culturally quite different from the Trinity campus. Surely, you wouldn’t want your nightlife to involve walking around alone after midnight, but I think that’s good advice for any urban area.</p>
<p>repeat thread from yesterday. sigh.</p>
<p>^Sorry to ask questions, It’s not like this is a sight for questions like this right? Instead of writing “sigh” why dont you help out concerned students or just not bother. Thanks gadad for a legitimate response.</p>
<p>Hi Football; Trinity is a truly terrific school. The downside: Hartford is pretty depressing and has been for a long time. The college is a fenced-in community in a rough neighborhood. I can imagine there would be a lot of problems, both ways. I also know that the college does substantial out-reach work with the immediate community and greater Hartford. Most of the people I know who have gone to Trinity have applied ED, so clearly it was their first choice. Also, Princeton Review rankings list MIT as having an ugly campus; I completely disagree on this one too! So, go ahead, take a closer look at Trinity, for your own sake. I’m sure you’ll come up with a more complex and truer picture of Trinity.</p>
<p>Trinity College has a long history, good facilities, unusual programs, and a beautiful campus in the capital of a rich state. So you might expect it to be considered one of the top 20 liberal arts colleges. In fact, US News ranks it 36th (2nd lowest among the 11 NESCAC colleges.) That’s still quite good, considering the competition, but the school does seem to have a little bit of an image problem. The fact that it is one of the few LACs located in a city ought to be a an advantage. In this case the city is Hartford, which given its location ought to be charming and prosperous, but for some reason it’s not.</p>
<p>Compare higher-ranked Midwestern schools like Oberlin, Grinnell, Macalester. Each of these schools has a distinct positive identity and enthusiastic following. Objectively, what do they have that Trinity lacks? More money maybe. But my impression is that Trinity also needs better marketing and a change in admission strategies to convince a more diverse applicant pool to see it for the excellent school it is.</p>
<p>Although I am looking at Trinity, it would take me a while to visit from where i live. Is the campus like Fordham in the way that its in a city yet its in its own bubble? Like is it a gorgeous campus on the inside and when you leave you see hartford itself or is the campus integrated into the city itself? 36th overall is still very good, right?</p>
<p>Visit the school web site. You should be able to get some sense of the architecture and campus plan from the map and photos. It is a distinct, traditional campus. Not interspersed into the rest of the urban landscape a la NYU.</p>
<p>36th is pretty good when you consider there are over 3000 institutions of higher learning in the USA. Of those, as I recall, about 150-200 are liberal arts colleges.</p>
<p>Hartford is a dump and that’s the major problem with Trinity.</p>