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2024考研英语同源外刊8月:美国精英的形成

The ruling by America’s Supreme Court in June that in effect banned universities from using racial preferences in admissions sparked two lively debates. Although the better publicised argument was over whether the decision represented an advance or a setback for equality of opportunity, perhaps the more interesting one focused on whether the admissions decisions of a handful of selective institutions deserved so much attention to begin with.

美国法院6月份生效的一项裁决,禁止美国大学按照种族偏好招生，这引发了两场激烈的辩论。虽然曝光度更大的争论是关于这一决定是象征平权的进步还是倒退，不过更有意思的争论或许集中在少数几所学校的录取决定是否本应如此备受关注。

Just 6% of American undergraduates attend colleges that accept less than a quarter of their applicants, leaving the vast majority unaffected. Moreover, most academic analyses of the socioeconomic impact of a bachelor’s degree from highly selective colleges have failed to detect much benefit. Although these universities’ alumni have unusually high incomes after leaving college, they also had unusually strong high-school qualifications before they went.

美国本科生中，只有6%的学生进入录取率不足25%的大学，这使得绝大多数学生都不会受到影响。此外，大多数针对大学学士学位的社会经济影响的学术分析也没能看出多少好处。尽管这些大学的毕业生在毕业之后收入异常大，但他们在进入大学之前也有特别厉害的高中学历。

One study by Stacy Dale and Alan Krueger of Princeton found that those who attend higher-ranked universities do not, on average, wind up earning more money than do those who go to lower-ranked ones. The paper also shows that the preferences in admissions these universities give to “legacies” (children of alumni), athletes and students at private high schools cause them to admit the children of America’s richest families at remarkably high rates—at the expense of less privileged, better qualified applicants who would be more likely to achieve success after graduation. Eliminating these policies would not only improve socioeconomic diversity at such colleges, but would also improve the brainpower of America’s future elites.

普林斯顿大学的史黛西·戴尔和艾伦·克鲁格的一项研究发现，通常来说，那些大学排名靠前的学生并不会比那些大学排名靠后的学生赚得多。这篇论文还表明，这些大学在招生时对“校友子女”、运动员和私立高中学生的偏爱，导致美国富有家庭的孩子被录取的比率相当的大，牺牲了那些不那么有特权、但更有资格、更有可能在毕业后取得成功的申请者。取消这些政策不仅可以促进这些大学社会经济多样性的发展，还可以加快美国未来精英的智力水平。

 

单词：

making /ˈmeɪkɪŋ/ n. 制作，生产;发展;形成;素质，潜在能力;<美>材料，原料;使……成功的因素;

elite /ɪˈliːt/ n. 权力集团，上层人士;尖子，精英;

ruling /ˈruːlɪŋ/ n.(尤指法庭的)裁决，裁定;统治，支配;

Supreme Court 法院;

in effect 生效;

ban /bæn/ vt. 禁止，取缔;(官方)把(某人)逐出某地;

racial preferences 种族偏好;

admission /ədˈmɪʃ(ə)n/ n. 承认，供认;允许进入(加入)，进入权;录取，录取人数;

spark /spɑːrk/ vt. 引发，触发;

lively /ˈlaɪvli/ adj. 活泼的，生气勃勃的;热闹的，激烈的;

publicise /ˈpʌblɪsaɪz/ vt. 宣传，宣扬;公布;

advance /ædˈvæns/ n. 前进;进步，进展;改善;

setback /ˈsetbæk/ n. 挫折，阻碍;

equality of opportunity 机会均等;

a handful of 一把;少量的;一小部分;

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