你和哈佛的距离，只差一栋楼……亚裔控告哈佛大学招生歧视_公共英语阅读理解

你和哈佛的距离，只差一栋楼……亚裔控告哈佛大学招生歧视

长期以来，人们一直认为在某种程度上，美国的许多名牌大学花钱就可以上。有很多例子可以表明，精英教育机构在录取时会选择有钱人，而不是有才的人。

Jared Kushner, for example, got into Harvard despite having a mediocre academic record. To be fair, this may have had nothing to do with his father pledging $2.5m to the university shortly before he was accepted. Perhaps the admissions office just had a hunch that this was the genius who was finally going to bring peace to the Middle East.

比如，特朗普的女婿贾里德•库什纳学生时期虽然成绩平平，却被哈佛大学录取。或许，这与他的父亲曾在他被录取之前承诺向哈佛捐赠250万美元无关。或许，招生办公室只是预见到，他才是最终为中东带来和平的天才。

亚裔控告哈佛招生歧视

哈佛大学等一些美国名校在招生过程中以“平权法案”为由，通过大幅提高录取标准、设置“种族配额”等方式，将不少优秀的亚裔学生挡在门外。

哈佛大学被控多年来在招生过程中蓄意歧视亚裔申请学生，位于波士顿的美国联邦地区法院15日开庭审理此案，引发全美关注。

While it is no secret that offering financial gifts to certain Ivy League universities may compensate for a lack of natural gifts, the extent to which Harvard’s admission process favors relatives of big donors is only now being laid bare. This is thanks to a lawsuit currently under way against Harvard that accuses the university of discriminating against Asian Americans.