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The Changes of American College Students Enrollment System In an ideal world, the nation’s elite schools would enroll the mo
The Changes of American College Students Enrollment System In an ideal world, the nation’s elite schools would enroll the mo
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2013-05-04
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The Changes of American College Students Enrollment System
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 alums get special treatment, as do athletes and rich kids. Underrepresented 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 admissions chief 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 rural students 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 a crapshoot", says Carnegie Mellon’s Steidel.
In the past few years some schools have begun to open that door a little wider. At MIT 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 dipped 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.
According to the passage, American schools______.
选项
A、favor the most competent students
B、enroll the children of their alumni
C、don’t conform to some national law
D、discriminate against lower-class students
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。首段开篇指出了美国大学的招生现状:学校并没有招收最优秀的学生,而是对体育特长生、富人家的孩子、学校校友的孩子、少数族裔都给予照顾。故[B]为答案。[A]与首段第二句But that’s not how it works.矛盾,排除;第四句提到了affirmativeaction(平权法案),明确指出由于设立了该法案,很多大学面貌已经发生了转变,排除[C];首段倒数第二句指出“各个种族的贫困生仍然十分少见”,但并未说明或暗示这是由歧视造成的,排除[D]。
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