我本人是在90年代初上的大学,而这些数字让我意识到,与过去半个世纪的其他任何时段相比,自己与同龄人的大学申请过程是多么地容易。到了本世纪的前10年,所谓的“回声潮世代”增加了美国的大学适龄人口。2017年,这一数字达到了1790万。与此同时,海外学生人数也在攀升。到了今天,许多顶尖学府的外国学生占到学生总数的近10%,是90年代初的水平的几乎两倍。
The result is those big declines in the number of available seats for any given American teenager. Only colleges that have rapidly expanded their student bodies, like Columbia and the University of Chicago, have avoided the pattern.
结果,对任何美国高中生而言,大学空缺均大幅下滑。只有快速扩招的高等院校,比如哥伦比亚大学和芝加哥大学(University of Chicago),才避免了这一规律。
Obviously, the averages do not apply equally across the board. For students from the Northeast applying to elite colleges in the region, college admissions have probably become even more difficult in recent decades than these statistics suggest. Not only have colleges globalized, they have also become less regional, admitting more students from states like North Carolina, Texas and Washington.
显然,平均状况并不会均摊到每个角落。对申请东北部著名学府的本地区学生而言,近几十年的录取情况很可能比上述数据显示得更加惨烈。各大院校不仅更为全球化,而且也减少了地区色彩,更多地录取来自北卡罗来纳、德克萨斯和华盛顿等州的学生。
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