In March the Yale Daily News ran a nice little piece about the growing admissions blogging trend nationwide.今年3月份，美國耶魯每日新聞冉好少一塊約日益招生博客趨勢，在全國范圍內。 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.關鍵在一塊為我這個消息是說，耶魯大學還沒有計劃，開始對博客或相似的透明度，促進工地很快。 Zachary Abrahamson reports:扎卡里abrahamson報告：
Blogs Elucidate Admit Process March 9, 2007博客澄清過程中承認2007年3月9日
Yale presently has […]耶魯大學目前有[ … … ]

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“Awesome,” I said to myself. "可怕的， "我對自己說。 “This questionnaire has been helpfully designed to take only a few minutes- how thoughtful of the Yale Admissions Office!” How wrong I was. "這份問卷已協助設計，只需數分鐘-如何周到的耶魯大學招生辦公室！ "怎麼不對我。 I opened the questionnaire-packet to find myself confronted by about 100 questions.我打開問卷包，以發現自己面臨著約100提問。 Allowing a mere 10 seconds per question, that survey would take nearly 17 minutes to complete.讓僅僅10秒，每個問題，調查就要花近17分鐘才能完成。 “A few” indeed. "少數" 。 Was the survey gratuitously long?被調查的無償長時間？ Not particularly–I still filled it out.沒有什麼特別-我仍然充滿拿出來。 But I was annoyed by the misrepresentative sell.但我是惱火，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.美國新聞與世界報導冉一個故事，兩個星期前，關於"大幅度提高"的截留率女性在面對許多高校與男性相比。 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.這個眾所周知的事實來作為無震動了那些知道有多少-更多的女性畢業生，高中及以上的，他們追求大學本科學歷的比男性多。 Their percentage in colleges and universities continues to grow.其百分比在高校繼續增長。 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描述統計，通知我們說： "從粗糙平價在1980年中，婦女佔57 ％的1660萬美國人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，教育部門的期望比例約為60比40 ， "有什麼神奇的說， 60/40號碼？ 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.”據kingsbury ， "有證據表明，一旦校園內到達，也就是說， 60至40分裂主張，不論男女，學院變得那麼有吸引力的申請人，不論男女" 。

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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的哈靈頓以上educatednation指我們到一個證券及期貨考官故事舊金山心理階層決定有一個競爭與他們不接受信件，他們的排名為優勝一樣， "最原始拒絕"與"次數最少的話，你需要閱讀之前你知道你是被拒絕" 。
The story concludes by […]故事的結尾[ … … ]

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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.我只得到了一個邀請，以填補了一項調查，親自：塔夫茨問我，以填補了一項調查，在解釋為什麼我要求提供資料及所有，但從未申請。 Yale hasn’t sent me anything yet, so I assume they aren’t going to be sending one at all.耶魯並沒有送我什麼，所以我假定他們不打算派遣一個都沒有。 However, I have been talking with […]不過，我一直在談，與[ … … ]

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