大学教育全球化让美国人付出代价_BEC初级作文

大学教育全球化让美国人付出代价

那么，还有什么原因在发挥作用？一个被忽略的因素是一流院校录取的美国学生比一代人之前要少。这一代的时间里，大学已经变得全球化了，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。

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.

对美国青少年而言，申请进入哈佛大学(Harvard)、或是耶鲁(Yale)、斯坦福(Stanford)、布朗大学(Brown)、波士顿大学(Boston College)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。在根据全国青少年人口进行调整后，哈佛大学录取的美国学生数量自1994年以来下降了27%。耶鲁大学和达特茅斯学院(Dartmouth)录取的美国学生下降了24%。卡尔顿学院(Carleton College)的比例下降了22%。马里兰圣母学院(Notre Dame)和普林斯顿大学(Princeton)的比例均下降了14%。

The frenzy over admissions at top colleges can seem nonstop: the last-minute flurry as accepted students decide by May 1 where to attend, the Supreme Court battles over affirmative action, the applications that some high school juniors have already begun writing. Yet the globalization of these colleges has been largely missing from the discussion.