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Overpriced and over-hyped. In the post-college business world, you'll find that few people have even heard of Trinity. Unless you know someone specifically and have an introduction, being a Trinity graduate will not help you from an alumni network perspective nor from a general reputation standpoint in employment. A solid graduation from Trinity will get you into most graduate, law, med schools, though, as it is well respected by other schools. Don't misunderstand, overall, you will get a quality education at Trinity, especially if you are the right type of student for them; but you'll pay every penny of it. Many other schools are more well known and less pricey than Trinity. Objective material classes such as math and the hard sciences will challenge you and your grades will reflect your hard work. Any class even remotely subjective, however, such as poly sci, economics, history, classics, philosophy, sociology, etc, is guaranteed to be teacher's pet country at Trinity. Travel at your own risk.The students are generally from upper middle class backgrounds, so the social life (clothes, car, partying, travel) will cost big money in order to keep up. Although many students attend and pretend that they're only at Trinity because they were that close to getting into Stanford, the reality is that for most of them Trinity was their first choice and is the highest caliber school they could get into.Having to do it all over again, I'd recommend going to U.T. Austin (or your state's flagship public university) for the lower expense and still a quality education (providing you work for it and don't take fluff classes), or going to a nationally known major university like the Ivy League, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, U. of Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, etc., if you can get in. If you really MUST have the Texas elite private school experience, then go to Rice. It's nearly as prestigious as the Harvard, Yale and Princeton's of the world, but only somewhat more expensive than U.T. Austin, Texas A&M and U. of Houston.Overall, if you're a free thinking or odd-thinking, experimental type of person, who's not just very smart but also very clever, and one from a family of modest means, then Trinity will be four years of limited enjoyment for you; alternating between some intellectual challeng, much social frustration, and too much high school-type b.s. with professors. On the other hand, if you're pretty bright, reasonably studious, a social butterfly girl/life-of-the-party guy, carry Mom's AMEX card and drive Dad's late model hand-me-down BMW, then you're probably in for the best years of your life at Trinity. |
