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Competition for admission to the country’s top private schools has always been tough, but this year Elisabeth Krents realized it
Competition for admission to the country’s top private schools has always been tough, but this year Elisabeth Krents realized it
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2013-07-02
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Competition for admission to the country’s top private schools has always been tough, but this year Elisabeth Krents realized it had reached a new level. Her wake-up call came when a man called the Dalton School in Manhattan, where Krents is admissions director, and inquired about the age limit for their kindergarten program. After providing the information (they don’t use an age limit), she asked about the age of his child. The man paused for an uncomfortably long time before answering. "Well, we don’t have a child yet," he told Krents. "We’re trying to figure out when to conceive a child so the birthday is not a problem."
School obsession is spreading from Manhattan to the rest of the country. Precise current data on private schools are unavailable, but interviews with representatives of independent and religious schools all told the same story: a glut of applicants, higher rejection rates. Public-opinion poll after poll indicates that Americans’ No. 1 concern is education. Now that the long economic boom has given parents more disposable income, many are turning to private schools, even at price tags of well over $ 10, 000 a year. "We’re getting applicants from a broader area, geographically, than we ever have in the past, " said Betsy Haugh of the Latin School of Chicago, which experienced a 20 percent increase in applications this year.
The problem for the applicants is that while demand has increased, supply has not. "Every year, there are a few children who do not find places, but this year, for the first time that I know of, there are a significant number of children who don’t have places, " said Krents, who also heads a private-school admissions group in New York.
So what can parents do to give their 4-year-old an edge? Schools know there is no effective way to pick a class when children are so young. Many schools give preference to siblings, or alumni’s children. Some use lotteries. But most rely on a mix of subjective and objective measures: tests that best identify developmental maturity and cognitive potential, interviews with parents and observation of applicants in classroom settings. They also want a diverse mix. Children may end up on a waiting list simply because their birthdays fall at the wrong time of year, or because too many applicants were boys.
The worst thing a parent can do is to pressure preschoolers to perform — for example , by pushing them to read or do math exercises before they’re ready. Instead, the experts say, parents should take a breath and look for alternatives. Another year in preschool may be all that’s needed. Parents, meanwhile, may need a more open mind about relatively unknown private schools — or about magnet schools in the public system. There’s no sign of the private-school boom letting up. Dalton’s spring tours, for early birds interested in the 2009 -2010 school year, are filled. The wait list? Forget it. That’s closed, too.
What can be inferred from the passage?
选项
A、The high concern of education leads to the increase of applicants for private schools.
B、Higher rejection rates result from a higher demand and unchanged supply.
C、A large number of students don’t have places in private schools only because many schools give preference to siblings.
D、Most parents think private schools are better than religious schools.
答案
B
解析
推理判断题。从第二段可以看出私立学校普遍存在的状况:申请者蜂拥而至,落选率越来越高,而落选的原因在第三段首句话有所解释,“申请者面临的问题是需求增加了,而供应还未变”,故可判断[B]正确。
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