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The Opportunity to Educate Is Fair In an ideal world,the nation’s elite schools would enroll the most qualified students. Bu
The Opportunity to Educate Is Fair In an ideal world,the nation’s elite schools would enroll the most qualified students. Bu
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2013-01-10
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The Opportunity to Educate Is Fair
In an ideal world,the nation’s elite schools would enroll the most qualified students. But that’s not how it works. Applicants whose parents are alumni (校友) get special treatment,as do athletes and rich kids. Under represented minorities are also given preference. Thirty years of affirmative action have changed the complexion of mostly white universities; now about 13 percent of all undergraduates are black or Latino. But most come from middle- and upper-middle-class families. Poor kids of all ethnicities remain scarce. A recent study by the Century Foundation found that at the nation’s 146 most competitive schools, 74 percent of students came from upper-middle-class and wealthy families, while only about 5 percent came from families with an annual income of roughly $ 35,000 or less.
Many schools say diversity-racial, economic and geographic is key to maintaining intellectually vital campuses. But Richard Kahlenberg of the Century Foundation says that even though colleges claim they want poor kids, "they don’t try very hard to find them. "As for rural students, many colleges don’t try at all. "Unfortunately,we go where we can generate a sizable number of potential applicants." Says Tulane admissionschief Richard Whiteside, who recruits aggressively and in person—from metropolitan areas. Kids in rural areas get a glossy brochure in the mail.
Even when poor rural students have the grades for top colleges, their high schools often don’t know how to get them there. Admissions officers rely on guidance counselors to direct them to promising prospects. In affluent high schools, guidance counselors often have personal relationships with both kids and admissions officers. In rural areas, a teacher, a counselor or even an alumnus "can help put a rural student on our radar screen," says Wesleyan admissions dean Nancy Meislahn. But poor rural schools rarely have college advisers with those connections; without them,admission "can be risky," says Carnegie Mellon’s Steidel.
In the past few years some schools have begun to open that door a little wider. At MIT (Massachusetts Institutes of Technology) it’s something of a mission for Marilee Jones, the dean of admissions. Twenty years ago, 25 percent of each MIT class were first-generation college goers from poor backgrounds who used the celebrated engineering school as a ticket out of the blue-collar world. Five years ago, when that number dropped below 10 percent, Jones began scouring the country for bright kids, and then paired the potential applicants with MIT faculty and students who could answer questions about college life. In four years Jones has doubled the number of poor first-generation students at MIT.
What does the author want to tell us by the case of MIT?
选项
A、Poor students have more chances to apply to study in MIT.
B、Personal relations play an important role in enrollment.
C、MIT does much better in recruitment of poor students.
D、The recruitment of poor students has been improved.
答案
D
解析
篇章结构题。根据题干关键词the case of MIT定位到最后一段首句; In the past few years some schools have begun to open that door a little wider.可知,在过去的几年中,一些学校已经开始把招生政策略微放宽;后文又举例麻省理工学院为提高贫穷学生比例在招生方面所做的努力。由此可见,作者举出麻省理工学院的例子是为了说明贫穷学生的招生情况得到了改善,故选[D]项。
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