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The Price of Admission
Daniel Golden · 初版 2006 年
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每年春天，成千上万的中产阶级和低收入家庭的高三学生都会得知自己被美国最顶尖的名校拒之门外。他们可能永远不会知道，有多少像他们一样优秀的候选人被落选，以便为资历较差但家境富裕的白人学生让路——这些人往往是校友、巨额捐助者或名人的子女。在这本轰动一时的书中，普利策奖得主、记者 Daniel Golden 指出，美国这个所谓的“机会之乡”正迅速沦为一个贵族阶层社会，美国最富有的家族能够获得进入精英高等教育的特权通道——从而使……
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……推荐大家去读（了解）一下 Jerome Karabel 写的这本书：《The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion At Harvard, Yale, And Princeton》。同时也很推荐 Daniel Golden 的《The Price of Admission》。Frank Wu 教授的见解在这里可能也挺有参考价值的（从大概 1:10 往后看）：https://youtu.be/PrDbvSSbxk8
…recommend people read (about) the following book by Jerome Karabel: The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion At Harvard, Yale, And Princeton. Would also recommend Daniel Golden's The Price of Admission. Prof. Frank Wu's insight might also be useful here (from ~1:10 onward): https://youtu.be/PrDbvSSbxk8
关于为什么要多一事不如少一事，这个建议挺有意思的。我很好奇如果要评估改变现有招生政策对大学造成的经济影响，该怎么去核算。Daniel Golden 的书《The Price of Admission》（http://www.amazon.com/Price-Admission-Americas-Colleges-Out...）声称大学在录取时完全可以比现在更讲求唯才是举，但他给出的好例子（研究型大学里的加州理工，……
That's an interesting suggestion on why to leave well enough alone. I wonder how one would check the economic effect on colleges of changing current admission policies. Daniel Golden's book _The Price of Admission_ http://www.amazon.com/Price-Admission-Americas-Colleges-Outs... claims that colleges could be much more meritocratic in admission than they now are, but his good examples (Caltech among research universities,…
……对于那些可能会被昨天的裁决所展现出的唯才是举假象给蒙蔽的人来说，他们应该被敲响警钟去反对校友子女录取特权（legacy admissions），毕竟这些人曾经热情地支持过这种做法。这些全都被记录在《The Price of Admission》里了（https://www.amazon.com/Price-Admission-Americas-Colleges-Out...）。
…to be scared into opposing legacy admissions, as they eagerly supported them, for people who might be taken in by their meritocratic facade from the decision yesterday. This is all documented in The Price of Admission (https://www.amazon.com/Price-Admission-Americas-Colleges-Out...).