2015年我们拜访被称为美国文化摇篮的新英格兰地区，这里以拥有世界顶尖的哈佛、MIT等知名学府受到各个年龄段的留学生的青睐。期间一位高中招生官对我们说美国顶尖学府，起码是前五名，是不计较申请人有没财力的。我们信以为真把这个信息向许多会员传递；然而今天我们必须为此向大家道歉。这个说法并不准确。根据NPR，USA Today等相关报道，美国高等学府中奉行“Legacy Admission”即为父母或祖父母为该校毕业生的申请人可以享受优惠政策的不仅仅是哈佛，以赞助等名义买入录取资格的也确有其事，而且还有“专业机构” 帮助学生舞弊。
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When we visited New England region of USA where quite some ritzy universities are located, one of the high school recruitors told us there are quite some "money blind" top universities, which values students' potential more than anything else. We have been passing on such message to many of our club members. And today, we'd like to apologize for our speading of the hearsay. As per a report from NPR, "For years, Harvard University's admissions office has given a "tip" to legacy students, or students with at least one parent who graduated from Harvard or Radcliffe, its former sister school."
Well, this is only a corner of the big iceberg of the seamside. The reports on admission scandals shocked any innocent minds. Federal prosecutors revealed a California-based college application coach was the author of a multi-million dollar scheme to cheat on admissions tests and bribe college coaches. That resulted in dozens ofwealthy and well-connected parents got their under-qualified children into elite colleges like Yale, Georgetown and Stanford. Here goes his quotation:
"There is a front door which means you get in on your own. The back door is through institutional advancement ( becoming a major donor to the college ) which is ten times as much money. And I’ve created this side door in."
People might think such things hurt only people whose application was thus declined. The fact is that all the involved kids will be hurt including the ones who take the advantage from such practice. Have a look at the side doors: One of a famous actress bribed to get the her kid into college; one high school kid was asked to write an personal statemnet inclduing his experiences growing up impoverished as the son of a single mother while the kid was having trouble writing it because he couldn't imagine what it was like to be poor!
Although the claim of "money-blind top universities" might be a myth, we are still having the luck to quite some top universities don't practice legacy adimission. As per NPR, "At least five of theworld's top 10 universities(MIT, Caltech, Oxford, Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley) explicitly don't allow for legacy preference in admissions decisions, and some U.S. schools have eliminated their legacy policies."
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