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Ask just about any high school senior or junior in America—or their parents—and they’ll tell you that getting into a selective c
Ask just about any high school senior or junior in America—or their parents—and they’ll tell you that getting into a selective c
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Ask just about any high school senior or junior in America—or their parents—and they’ll tell you that getting into a selective college is harder than it used to be. They’re right about that. But the reasons for the newfound difficulty are not well understood.
Population growth plays a role, but the number of teenagers is not too much higher than it was 30 years ago, when the youngest baby boomers were still applying to college. And while many more Americans attend college than in the past, most of the growth has occurred at colleges with relatively few resources and high dropout rates, which bear little resemblance to the elites.
So what else is going on? One overlooked factor is that top colleges are admitting fewer American students than they did a generation ago. Colleges have globalized over that time, deliberately increasing the share of their student bodies that come from overseas and leaving fewer
slots
for applicants from the United States.
For American teenagers, it really is harder to get into Harvard—or Yale, Stanford, Brown, Boston College or many other elite colleges—than it was when today’s 40-year-olds or 50-year-olds were applying. The number of spots filled by American students at Harvard, after adjusting for the size of the teenage population nationwide, has dropped 27 percent since 1994. At Yale and Dartmouth, the decline has been 24 percent. At Carleton, it’s 22 percent. At Notre Dame and Princeton, it is 14 percent.
This globalization obviously brings some big benefits. It has exposed American students to perspectives that our proudly parochial country often does not provide in childhood.
Yet the way in which American colleges have globalized comes with costs, too. For one thing, the rise in foreign students has complicated the colleges’ stated efforts to make their classes more economically diverse. Foreign students often receive insufficient financial aid and tend to be from Well-off families. For another thing, the country’s most selective colleges have effectively shrunk as far as American students are concerned, during the same span that many students and their parents are spending more time obsessing over getting into one.
Either way, the research emphasizes a problem with the way colleges have globalized. With only a handful of exceptions(including Harvard, Amherst, M.I.T. and Yale), colleges have not tried hard to recruit an economically diverse group of foreign students. The students instead have become a revenue source.
The percentages in Paragraph 4 are used to indicate that
选项
A、colleges have different acceptance rates.
B、Harvard’ s acceptance rate has declined the most.
C、famous colleges are offering more chances for overseas students.
D、an increasing number of overseas students like to study in America.
答案
C
解析
推断题。根据题干关键词定位到第四段。首句指出“对美国青少年而言,申请进入…及其 他许多名校,真的要比今天40多岁或50多岁的那代人申请进入这些大学时更困难”,接下 来列举了各个名校在美国大幅下降的录取比例。结合第三段末句中的“它们刻意增加了海外生 源的比例,给本国申请生留下的份额变少了”可知,在本国录取比例的下降意味着提高了海外 学生的录取比例,故C项符合题意,为正确答案。A项错把百分数当成录取比例,故不正确。本 段并非要突出哈佛大学的录取比例下调最大,故排除B项。D项在原文中并未提及。
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