大家晚上好！
小刘开始做一些外刊的分享了！（先从搬运工做起，然后慢慢来做精讲，敬请期待！）
今天的外刊选自《华尔街日报周末版》The Wall Street Journal Weekend Version 2020-3.28，也就是刚刚发布的这一期，标题名为 “Admit Rates Edge Up at Ivy League Schools”，其中讲述了关于今年美国常春藤盟校的录取率竟然有所上升的前因后果（但是想进哈佛还是难的哈），同时对于前几年关于美国择校丑闻也有所提及，希望大家可以先体验一下外刊的难度、长度和表达，我在其中用粗体标注了部分用法表达，大家可以收集整理一下哦！
Admit Rates Edge Up at Ivy League Schools
Some of the nations most selective colleges became slightly less selective this year, as Harvard University, Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania posted increased acceptance rates for the first-year class that will begin in the fall.
Harvard admitted 1,980 candidates, or 4.9% of the 40,248 who applied. Last year, it offered spots to 30 fewer students, while receiving almost 3,100 additional applications, for a record-low 4.6% acceptance rate.
Dartmouth, meanwhile, accepted 8.8% of applicants, up from a record-low 7.9% last year. And Columbia University’s admit rate rose to 6.1% from 5.3%,as applications dropped by almost 2,500 and the school admitted around 220 more students.
The eight campuses making up the Ivy League, as well as a number of other highly selective colleges, notified applicants Thursday evening of who secured a slot for the coming fall’s first-year class.
This is a challenging period for colleges, as the coronavirus pandemic has scrambled enrollment projections for their next classes. It is unclear how many students will be able to travel for the start o the next academic year, whether residence halls will be open, and whether families can afford tuition payments amid rapidly deteriorating economic conditions.
Some schools moved students over to the admit pile from the wait list or "deny" group at the last minute, to help ensure they can enroll a full class. Acceptance rates can continue to shift as schools turn to their wait lists to round out their classes, so numbers aren't considered final until the start of the school year.
The uptick in acceptance rates at many exclusive schools reverses a year-long trend that had generated a frenzy of competition and scrutiny over just how each coveted entry ticket is awarded. A 2018 civil trial laid bare Harvard's admission practices, including the high offer rates for legacies, certain racial minorities and recruited athletes. And the Varsity Blues college-admissions scandal heightened skepticism over whether the admissions pro- cess is truly meritocratic.
Yale's acceptance rate edged up to 6.5% from 6.2% as that school continues to grow its undergraduate student body, and Penn's acceptance rate rose to 8.1% from 7.7%.
Brown University and Princeton University both posted drops in their admission rates: Brown slid to 6.9% from 7.1% last year, and Princeton edged down to 5.6% from 5.8%.
Cornell University this year said it would no longer issue public statements highlighting its admission figures. Stanford University took that tack beginning two years ago, saying at the time that it hoped "to help de-emphasize the perceived importance of low admit rates at colleges and universities."
"While metrics such as application numbers and admissions rates are an area of fo- cus for many as they review annual activity in higher edu- cation,Cornell's thorough and holistic review processes mean that no one applicant's chances can be guided by averages,'" said Jonathan Burdick, vice president for enrollment.
Cornell's move comes amid a growing push to highlight metrics of a school's quality beyond exclusivity, like student diversity, retention and graduation rates and job prospects.
The class that will enter these storied institutions in the fall looks remarkably different from what the schools had just a decade or two ago, in terms of racial diversity, their families' educational backgrounds and socioeconomic status. At Harvard, roughly 23% of new students' families have annual incomes below $65,000.
文章来源：WSJ.com
The Wall Street Journal Weekend Version SATURDAY/SUNDAY, MARCH 28 - 29, 2020 ~ VOL. CCLXXV NO. 73
