【精翻美文】别忘了申保底学校

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博纳寰美视图翻译一些美国升学杂志中的美文给将要美申的同学，一来可以锻炼阅读能力，二来可以学习一些申请中的小技巧；今天我们就来看看美国的counselor怎么说保底学校，也就是safety school！

 

Don't Forget to Apply to a "Safety" College

不要忘了申请保底学校

 

I've noticed that as College Confidential gains more and more participants, we are seeing more and more threads in April after admission decisions are announced in which a student or parent announces with dismay that all the student's applications to "top" colleges were rejected. In today's competitive admission environment, many high school students with fine academic records will not get into their first-choice college, or their second-choice college, or their third-choice college. That's just a hard mathematical fact. Every year on College Confidential, a lot of participants post in April that they were disappointed in their admission results.

不难发现CC的用户逐渐增多，我们能从中找到越来越多这样的例子：申请者或是他们的家长，在4月录取结果公布之后，对最后的结果非常的不满。在近几年竞争日益激烈的申请中，许多成绩优秀的高中生没能被自己的第一选择学校，或是第二选择，甚至是第三选择学校录取。而这仅仅是一个数据能体现的事实。每年，CC上都会有一部分的用户在4月份表达他们对自己申请结果的不满。

 

But the end of the application process to your dream college doesn't have to be the end of your college dreams. Anyone applying to a top college (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, etc.) ought also be applying to a "safety" college, a college you can count on being admitted to. In previous CC posts, I have defined a safety college as one that

但是，申请梦想学校的失败并不能代表你大学申请的结束。任何人在申请牛校（哈佛，耶鲁，普林斯顿，麻省理工，斯坦福）时都应该申请所谓的保底学校，那种你认为可以稳进的学校。在之前CC的帖子中，我用了一下的几个特征来定义“保底学校”:

 

1) is pretty much certain to admit the applicant, based on its known behavior in acting on recent admission applications,

1）基于近几年来的录取状况，知道自己能够被稳稳地录取

 

2) has a strong program in an area the applicant is interested in,

2）拥有令申请者感兴趣的学术项目和领域

 

3) is affordable based on its known behavior in acting on financial aid applications,

3）根据该学校的奖学金政策，可以承担该学校的学费

 

4) is likeable to the applicant. 

4）受到申请者的认可和喜爱

 

What college fits the "safety" definition for you? What do you like about it? It's vital to build an application list from the safety college on up, and I appreciate suggestions in this thread about how to do that. 

哪些学校对于你来说符合保底学校的定义呢？你在哪些方面喜欢这些学校呢？从保底学校开始，再到自己的顶尖学校来制定自己的选校目录是十分重要的。我也十分欣赏这部分的建议。

 

Good luck to the members of high school classes of 2012 and 2013 who are putting together lists of colleges to apply to.

祝正在整理考虑自己选校名单的申请者们好运！

博纳寰美点评：这篇文章是一篇很经典的文章；很多人似乎觉得保底的safety school没有啥难度，选择很随意；结果每年都有不少的同学因为太随意，吃了“全拒得”！所以，根据自己的情况再适当做点保守的策略选择保底学校，这也是很有技巧的。更多美国留学相信，请咨询更专业的博纳寰美！！！

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