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

The share for any individual college is minuscule, of course. In 2017, about 33 out of every 100,000 American 18- to 21-year-olds were attending Harvard, down from 45 per 100,000 in 1994. These changes in the share tell you how much harder, or easier, admission has become for American teenagers on average. Between 1984 and 1994, it became easier at many colleges. The college-age population in this country fell during that time to 14.1 million in 1994 from 16.5 million in 1984, and the number of foreign students was relatively stable.

当然了，单看任何一家大学，这一比例都微乎其微。2017年，18到21岁的美国学生中，每10万人中仅有约33人上哈佛，而1994年的数据是每10万里有45人。这些比例变化能告诉我们，美国高中生平均的大学录取情况变难或变易的程度。从1984年到1994年，许多高等学府的入学都变简单了。在此期间，美国的大学适龄人口从1984年的1650万下滑至1994年的1410万，而海外学生人数相对平稳。

I attended college in the early 1990s, and these numbers made me realize how easy the application process was for me and my peers, relative to almost any other time over the past half century. By the 2000s, the so-called echo boom in births had increased the number of college-age Americans. It reached 17.9 million in 2017. The number of foreign students was growing at the same time. They now constitute close to 10 percent of the student body at many selective colleges, nearly double the level of the early 1990s.