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Rebuilding the American dream machine
閲嶅缓缇庡浗姊︽満鍣?/p>
Jan 19th 2006 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print edition
FOR
America's
colleges,
January
is
a
month
of
reckoning.
Most
applications
for
the
next
academic
year beginning in the autumn have to be made by the
end of December, so a university's popularity is put to
an
objective
standard:
how
many
people
want
to
attend. One of the more unlikely offices to have been
flooded
with
is
that
of
the
City
University
of
New
Y
ork
(CUNY),
a
public
college
that
lacks,
among
other
things,
a
famous
sports
team,
bucolic
campuses
and
raucous
parties
(it
doesn't
even
have
dorms), and, until recently, academic credibility.
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鑰屼笖锛?/p>
鐩村埌鏈�杩戜篃娌″彇寰楀鏈笂鐨?
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A
primary draw at CUNY
is a programme for particularly clever students, launched in 2001. Some 1,100 of the
60,000 students at CUNY's five top schools receive a rare thing in the costly world of American colleges: free
education. Those accepted by CUNY's honours programme pay no tuition fees; instead they rec
eive a stipend of
$7,500 (to help with general expenses) and a laptop computer. Applications for early admissions into next year's
programme are up 70%.
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2001
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绾︽湁
1100
浜鸿兘寰楀埌
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锛?/p>
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7500
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琛ュ姪鏃ュ父寮�閿�锛変互鍙婁竴鏈瑪璁版湰鐢佃剳銆傝繖鎵�瀛︽牎鐢宠灏芥棭琚壒鍑嗚繘鍏ヤ笅涓�瀛﹀勾璁″垝鐨勫鐢熻揪鍒颁簡
70%
銆?/p>
Admission has nothing to do with being an athlete, or a child of
an alumnus, or having an influential sponsor, or
being
a
member
of
a
particularly
aggrieved
ethnic
group
鈥?/p>
criteria
that
are
increasingly
important
at
America's
elite
colleges.
Most
of
the
students who
apply
to the
honours
programme come from
relatively
poor
families,
many of them immigrant ones. All that CUNY
demands is that these students be diligent and clever.
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鎴栬�呮槸涓嶆槸鏌?/p>
涓埍鎵撴姳涓嶅钩鐨勬皯鏃忕ぞ鍥㈡垚鍛橈紝
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鐢宠
鍔犲叆鑽ｈ獕璁″垝鐨勫鐢熷ぇ澶氭暟鏉ヨ嚜鐩稿璐洶鐨勫搴紝
鍏朵腑璁稿浜洪兘鏄Щ姘戙�?/p>
鍩庡競澶у鍞竴闇�瑕佺殑灏辨槸杩欎簺瀛?/p>
鐢熷繀椤诲嫟濂嬪苟涓旇仾棰栥�?/p>
Last year, the average standardised test score of this group was in the top 7% in the country
. Among the rest of
CUNY's students averages are lower, but they are now just breaking into the top third (compared with the bottom