“Awesome,” I said to myself. “可怕， ”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. “這份問卷已有用的設計只需要幾分鐘的時間-如何周到的耶魯大學招生辦公室” ！如何錯我是。 I opened the questionnaire-packet to find myself confronted by about 100 questions.我打開問卷的包找到自己面對約100個問題。 Allowing a mere 10 seconds per question, that survey would take nearly 17 minutes to complete.讓僅僅10秒，每一個問題，該調查將採取近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.沒有什麼特別我仍充滿出來。 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了一個故事，兩個星期前，有關“大幅較高的”排斥反應率在婦女所面對的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由於沒有休克那些誰知道有多少-更多女性從高中畢業及以上的，他們尋求大學本科學歷的比男同事。 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.徐家布介紹了統計信息，告訴我們： “從粗糙平價在1980年，婦女佔57 ％的16600000美國collegegoers在2006年。 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，教育部門預計，比例約為60比40 。 “什麼樣的魔術般的說， 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.”據布， “有證據表明，一旦一個校園達到，也就是說， 60至40分裂，主張無論性別，成為該學院的吸引力較低的申請人，不論男女” 。

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Here is just a quick picture of our Backroads group, minus trip leaders.在這裡只是一個快速的圖片我們backroads組，負之行的領導人。 This is in the Virgin River Narrows of Zion National Park, which was a lot of fun since I absolutely love hopping on rocks and scampering around in the water.這是在美屬維爾京河收窄錫安國家公園，這是一個很有趣的，因為我絕對愛跳頻對岩石和scampering左右，在水中。 I’m in blue next to my mom on the right.我在藍色旁邊的我媽媽在右邊。 I have […]我有[ … … ]

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I am back from my Backroads trip to Bryce, Zion, and Grand Canyon national parks with my mom last week.我回到我backroads之行布萊斯，錫安，和大峽谷國家公園與我的媽媽在上週。 We had to stay in Vegas a night coming in and a night leaving for logistical purposes, and it was dramatically awful.我們不得不留在拉斯維加斯一晚未來在和一晚離開後勤目的，這是顯著可怕的。 I won’t at this exact moment elaborate on the hatred for Las Vegas […]我不會在此的確切時刻，詳細闡述了仇恨，拉斯維加斯[ … … ]

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Beloved readers, I will be away for a week on a Backroads trip with my mom to Bryce, Zion, and Grand Canyon national parks.親愛的讀者，我會離開一個星期就一backroads之行與我的媽媽，以布萊斯，錫安，和大峽谷國家公園。 I will be back on the 20th.我會回到對20 。 If I am not responding to your e-mails during this time very promptly, now you know why.如果我沒有回應你的電子郵件，在這段時間非常迅速，現在你知道為什麼。
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