Admissions & selectivity
Trinity College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Trinity College?
Trinity College’s reported acceptance rate is 29.2%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 29.2%
Source: College Scorecard · Fall 2024 admissions. Acceptance rates can change from year to year; this figure does not predict the current or next admission cycle.
Source: Trinity College Common Data Set 2024-25, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Trinity College admits 29.2% of applicants, a rate that sits well below the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 7,460 first-year applicants and 2,182 admitted applicants.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Trinity College students report?
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, Trinity College reported that enrolled first-year students who submitted SAT scores scored between 1340 and 1453. Only 7% of the entering class submitted SAT scores.
The ACT range for enrolled submitters was 30 to 34, with 3% submitting ACT scores. The 1340 to 1453 SAT range and the 30 to 34 ACT range reflect recent enrolled submitters rather than admission minimums.
Among enrolled first-year students who reported a class rank, 53% placed in the upper tenth, 76% in the upper quarter, and 96% in the upper half of their high-school class. These shares describe only students who reported a rank, not the whole entering class.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Trinity College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
7% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 1340
- Median
- 1385
- 75th percentile
- 1453
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
3% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 30
- Median
- 32
- 75th percentile
- 34
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Trinity College Common Data Set 2024-25, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Trinity College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 13.8%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 3.4%
- First-year retention
- 89.9%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
Trinity College enrolls 2,146 undergraduates. The student body is drawn largely from first-year applicants, with an estimated 3.4% arriving as transfers or part-time students.
13.8% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants. In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 7,460 first-year applicants and 2,182 admitted.
For transfer students, the same report shows 193 applicants, 61 admitted, and 18 enrolled. The composition points to a campus built around the traditional entry path, with a small share of students using federal grant aid.
First-year retention at Trinity College runs above the peer median. 90.0% of full-time bachelor's-seeking entrants return for a second year, against a median of 83.4% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 83.8%, which exceeds the peer median of 68.8%. Pell recipients in that cohort complete at 89.8%, 6.0 percentage points above the overall rate.
Persistence and completion both sit above the peer medians, and Pell recipients finish at a rate that exceeds the overall figure. Enrolled students can expect strong institutional follow-through, with the caveat that these rates describe full-time entrants and do not capture everyone who starts part-time or transfers in.
Data & methodology
Sources and reporting periods: methodology.
Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.
Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.
Admission rates describe past applicants, not an individual’s chance of admission; confirm requirements and deadlines with the institution.
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