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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.
How did Marilee Jones increase the number of poor students at MIT?
选项
A、She strengthened the connection with the guidance counselors in the country.
B、She got connected with promising poor kids through the graduates of MIT.
C、She built connections between promising poor kids and MIT teachers and students.
D、She made efforts to persuade the MIT leaders to recruit more poor students.
答案
C
解析
事实细节题。根据题干关键词Marilee Jones,MIT定位到最后一段倒数第二句: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.可知,琼斯前往全国各地寻找聪明的学生,然后把这些潜在的申请入和麻省理工学院的老师以及能回答有关大学生活的问题的学生结成对子。可见,琼斯把有潜力的贫穷孩子和学校老师及在校学生联系起来对提高贫穷学生的招收数量起到了关键作用,故选[C]项。
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