In March the Yale Daily News ran a nice little piece about the growing admissions blogging trend nationwide.今年3月份，美国耶鲁每日新闻冉好少一块约日益招生博客趋势，在全国范围内。 The key piece in it for me was the news that Yale had no plans to start a blog or similar transparency-promoting site anytime soon.关键在一块为我这个消息是说，耶鲁大学还没有计划，开始对博客或相似的透明度，促进工地很快。 Zachary Abrahamson reports:扎卡里abrahamson报告：
Blogs Elucidate Admit Process March 9, 2007博客澄清过程中承认2007年3月9日
Yale presently has […]耶鲁大学目前有[ … … ]

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“Awesome,” I said to myself. "可怕的， "我对自己说。 “This questionnaire has been helpfully designed to take only a few minutes- how thoughtful of the Yale Admissions Office!” How wrong I was. "这份问卷已协助设计，只需数分钟-如何周到的耶鲁大学招生办公室！ "怎么不对我。 I opened the questionnaire-packet to find myself confronted by about 100 questions.我打开问卷包，以发现自己面临着约100提问。 Allowing a mere 10 seconds per question, that survey would take nearly 17 minutes to complete.让仅仅10秒，每个问题，调查就要花近17分钟才能完成。 “A few” indeed. "少数" 。 Was the survey gratuitously long?被调查的无偿长时间？ Not particularly–I still filled it out.没有什么特别-我仍然充满拿出来。 But I was annoyed by the misrepresentative sell.但我是恼火，由misrepresentative出售。 Was it necessary?是否有必要呢？

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US News & World Report ran a story two weeks ago about the “drastically higher” rejection rates women face at many colleges compared to men.美国新闻与世界报道冉一个故事，两个星期前，关于"大幅度提高"的截留率女性在面对许多高校与男性相比。 This well known fact comes as no shock to those who know the numbers– more females graduate from high school and more of them seek college degrees than do their male counterparts.这个众所周知的事实来作为无震动了那些知道有多少-更多的女性毕业生，高中及以上的，他们追求大学本科学历的比男性多。 Their percentage in colleges and universities continues to grow.其百分比在高校继续增长。 Alex Kingsbury describes the stats, informing us that “From rough parity in 1980, women made up 57 percent of the 16.6 million American collegegoers in 2006.徐家kingsbury描述统计，通知我们说： "从粗糙平价在1980年中，妇女占57 ％的1660万美国人collegegoers在2006年推出。 By 2010, the Department of Education expects the ratio to be around 60 to 40.” What’s the magic of that 60/40 number?到2010年，教育部门的期望比例约为60比40 ， "有什么神奇的说， 60/40号码？ According to Kingsbury, “anecdotal evidence suggests that once a campus reaches, say, a 60-to-40 split in favor of either gender, the college becomes less attractive to applicants of both sexes.”据kingsbury ， "有证据表明，一旦校园内到达，也就是说， 60至40分裂主张，不论男女，学院变得那么有吸引力的申请人，不论男女" 。

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Alexa Harrington over at EducatedNation refers us to a SF Examiner story about a San Francisco psych class which decided to have a competition with their rejection letters, ranking them for superlatives like “Least original rejection” and “Least number of words you need to read before you know you are being rejected.” Alexa的哈灵顿以上educatednation指我们到一个证券及期货考官故事旧金山心理阶层决定有一个竞争与他们不接受信件，他们的排名为优胜一样， "最原始拒绝"与"次数最少的话，你需要阅读之前你知道你是被拒绝" 。
The story concludes by […]故事的结尾[ … … ]

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I only got an invitation to fill out one survey, personally: Tufts asked me to fill out a survey explaining why I asked for information and all but then never applied.我只得到了一个邀请，以填补了一项调查，亲自：塔夫茨问我，以填补了一项调查，在解释为什么我要求提供资料及所有，但从未申请。 Yale hasn’t sent me anything yet, so I assume they aren’t going to be sending one at all.耶鲁并没有送我什么，所以我假定他们不打算派遣一个都没有。 However, I have been talking with […]不过，我一直在谈，与[ … … ]

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