We were so proud to see the new ranking this morning! Our family loves Trinity, and the ranking is well deserved!
As expected.
I like to refer followers to Datasets | Andrew G. Reiter which shows the US rankings of each LAC over the last 20+ years. You can easily see who is trending up and who is trending down.
Still not a reliable measure of fit, but a good gauge on reputation.
Trinity will get more name recognition with the full move to SAA, and the continuing rise in TX economics and population relative to other states. They will also fine-tune their graduation rates and other stats with the budget they have.
Little bit annoying: the student profile page https://www.trinity.edu/admissions-aid/why-trinity/student-profile has numbers that don’t match what is reported by USnews. They probably lost a few high-flyers late in the season, and had to replace them with mortals. The US News numbers are probably more accurate. Some TU employee needs to update that page.
They’re not. The USNews numbers are from the previous year, they’re that way for all colleges. The Trinity web site is the most recent class.
The USnews numbers and rankings are all from class of 2024, released on Sep 26. The numbers they had a month ago matched what was on USnews before updating. We updated all numbers from all schools on our google sheet, only a few are mismatched (all have higher numbers on site than the USnews ones, similar to TU).
Off course, all these ACT numbers are bogus, with half the class test-optional. I am guessing the 25% mark is the true 75% mark, for all TO schools.
No idea as I don’t follow that closely. But, the USNews stats looked like my daughter’s year which is why I assumed.
https://www.trinity.edu/news/class-2027-breaks-acceptance-rate-record
US News pulls data from IPEDs, not from individual college admission websites. The data does lag accordingly, as that is a long process. IPEDS will not display score data for fall 2024 freshmen until June 2025. US News uses fall 2023 standardized test data in its ranking calculation. Fall 2023 test data would be found in the 2023-24 CDS and also is the current data displayed in IPEDS’ College Navigator (see, e.g., Trinity U at College Navigator). It appears US News calculates an SAT composite by adding section scores in IPEDS, which is not a correct method, and the actual composite ranges differ from this calculation, which is easy to see by comparing the CDS to US News. (College Navigator does not display the SAT composite data field, perhaps because it was added to the CDS around 2019 and many colleges still do not report that field.) Where it gets a little weird is that the CDS section scores differ slightly from IPEDS data, perhaps due to one or the other having been corrected at some point, as happens sometimes with the CDS.
More importantly, US News data would be for enrolled students. In contrast, TU’s student profile page is listing the stats for admitted students. Enrolled student data and admitted student data are apples and oranges, with admitted data always being higher than enrolled.
For comparing different colleges, and for looking at changes over time for one college, I would look to the Common Data Sets, to compare apples to apples, while of course also noting the % of test submitters in any particular year.
WOW… this is a crucial piece of info @evergreen5. That explains it.
That means that next year, USNews will show their ACT range moving up by 1, and their SAT range moving up by 40.
Thanks for the explanation. Shows we are still noobs
Has data for the enrolled class of 2028 been released? Until we see the 2024-25 Common Data Set, or next June’s update in College Navigator, we won’t know what to expect US News to show next fall.
I would strongly disagree about Trinity being known for it’s PCUSA affiliation. My daughter is a current Junior.
This is not true. My daughter is a sophomore.
I’m not sure where you get these claims. First, half the dorms are on the east side of campus and have a staircase to get to the upper campus where the academic buildings are, so you don’t pass the church (which is to the west of the campus).
Second, for 2.5 years, I lived in dorms very near the church (South and Thomas) and never once passed by or noticed the church on my way to class, because you don’t have to go off campus to get to class. Indeed, the orientation from the dorms leads you into the campus interior, bypassing the church. I’ll add that because the area to the west and north are residential, not many students walk around, because there isn’t much for them to do but look at nice homes–not necessarily a college student’s priority.
Third, “While Trinity has no official affiliation, it is strongly known in Texas for its PCUSA affiliation.” I didn’t know this when I was looking at schools, nor did I care. I am certain that a great number of students considering college do not have this as a consideration. Trinity, though Presbyterian affiliated, is nonsectarian. Most academically ambitious students are not looking at a school’s religious affiliation, unless they want an explicitly religious school (In which case, they probably wouldn’t choose Trinity) but more at the academic and social reputations.
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