(ZT)紐約時報今天的關於瘋狂高考的文章,我好心轉過來。

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Mr. Currell, a lawyer and consultant, was deputy under secretary and senior adviser at the U.S. Department of Education from 2018 to 2021. He is a trustee of Gustavus Adolphus College.

Selective college admissions have been a vortex of anxiety and stress for what seems like forever, inducing panic in more top high school seniors each year. But the 2023-2024 admissions season was not just an incremental increase in the frantic posturing and high-pressure guesswork that make this annual ritual seem like academic Hunger Games. This year was different. A number of factors — some widely discussed, some little noticed — combined to push the process into a new realm in which the old rules didn’t apply and even the gatekeepers seemed not to know what the new rules were.

It happened, as these things often do, first gradually and then all at once.

It started with a precipitous rise in the number of people clamoring to get in. The so-called Ivy-Plus schools — the eight members of the Ivy League plus M.I.T., Duke, Chicago and Stanford — collectively received about 175,000 applications in 2002. In 2022, the most recent year for which totals are available, they got more than 590,000, with only a few thousand more available spots.

The quality of the applicants has risen also. In 2002, the nation produced 134 perfect ACT scores; in 2023 there were 2,542. Over the same period, the United States — and beyond it, the world — welcomed a great many more families into the ranks of the wealthy, who are by far the most likely to attend an elite college. Something had to give.

The first cracks appeared around the rules that had long governed the process and kept it civilized, obligating colleges to operate on the same calendar and to give students time to consider all offers before committing. A legal challenge swept the rules away, freeing the most powerful schools to do pretty much whatever they wanted.

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理解錯了:) 哈哈哈,杜克好拽啊 -compassionKL- 給 compassionKL 發送悄悄話 compassionKL 的博客首頁 (191 bytes) () 05/01/2024 postreply 20:29:49

倒著讀的後果,哈哈 -compassionKL- 給 compassionKL 發送悄悄話 compassionKL 的博客首頁 (0 bytes) () 05/01/2024 postreply 20:39:25

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討論比文章還有意思。好多家庭shocked,孩子全A ACT36仍然全軍覆沒等等。不知到底要啥樣。我心說我們華裔早就 -無言無語無聲- 給 無言無語無聲 發送悄悄話 (126 bytes) () 05/01/2024 postreply 19:07:48

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