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The admissions process is out of whack. Just ask the heartbroken applicant, rejected by her dream school. Ask high school counselors, who complain that colleges don’t reward promising students for their creativity, determination or service to others. Even the gatekeepers at some famous institutions acknowledge, quietly, that the selection system is broken. 大学招生过程已经乱了套。只需去问问被梦想中的学校拒绝的心碎的申请人。问问高中辅导员们，他们抱怨那些因为有创造力、毅力或乐于助人而前途远大的学生，并不能得到大学的赏识。即使是一些著名学府的招生者也悄悄承认，筛选体系非常糟糕。 Ask five people how to fix it, though, and they’ll give five different answers. Sure, you might think colleges put too much stock in the SAT, but your neighbor’s kid with the near-perfect score thinks it should matter a lot. More than half of Americans say colleges shouldn’t give children of alumni a leg up, according to a recent Gallup poll; yet nearly half say parental connections should be at least a “minor factor.” 然而，若是去问五个人该如何解决这个问题，他们会给出五个不同的答案。当然，你可能认为大学太过看重SAT考试，但是你邻居孩子的SAT成绩接近完美，所以他认为这个分数应该很重要。根据最近的一次盖洛普(Gallup)民意调查，超过一半的美国人认为大学不应该给予校友子女优先入学待遇；然而也有近一半的人认为招生时，父母的关系至少应该充当一个“次要因素”。 | 
