招生官揭秘录取潜规则

发布于 2026-09-09 · 时长 12:47

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时间	英文	中文
0:03	There's a story of mine that I've told about a million different times and it goes a little	有个关于我的故事,我告诉过百万次不同的时间,它去一点点
0:08	something like this.	像这样
0:10	When I was 10, my family and I packed up our entire lives into large suitcases and dragged	我十岁时,我和家人把我们的一生都打包在大箱子里,拖着走
0:16	them across the Pacific to a foreign land called Canada.	他们横跨太平洋到一个叫做加拿大的外国土地。
0:20	I was put in a school where I was the only Asian kid in my grade and I got teased for	我被送进一个学校在那里我是唯一的亚洲孩子在我年级,我被嘲笑
0:25	my broken English, Asian features and funny smelling ethnic lunches.	我破碎的英语,亚洲特色和有趣的闻民族午餐。
0:30	The racism was a real doozy.	种族主义是一个真正的蠢货。
0:32	But don't feel bad.	但别难过
0:34	Through the magical healing powers of extracurricular activities and pure perseverance, I stand	通过课外活动的神奇治疗力和纯粹的毅力,我站在
0:40	before you today a new woman, healthy, healed and extremely employable.	今天在你面前,一个新的女人, 健康, 治愈和极度就业。

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序号	英文	中文
1	There's a story of mine that I've told about a million different times and it goes a little	有个关于我的故事,我告诉过百万次不同的时间,它去一点点
2	something like this.	像这样
3	When I was 10, my family and I packed up our entire lives into large suitcases and dragged	我十岁时,我和家人把我们的一生都打包在大箱子里,拖着走
4	them across the Pacific to a foreign land called Canada.	他们横跨太平洋到一个叫做加拿大的外国土地。
5	I was put in a school where I was the only Asian kid in my grade and I got teased for	我被送进一个学校在那里我是唯一的亚洲孩子在我年级,我被嘲笑
6	my broken English, Asian features and funny smelling ethnic lunches.	我破碎的英语,亚洲特色和有趣的闻民族午餐。
7	The racism was a real doozy.	种族主义是一个真正的蠢货。
8	But don't feel bad.	但别难过
9	Through the magical healing powers of extracurricular activities and pure perseverance, I stand	通过课外活动的神奇治疗力和纯粹的毅力,我站在
10	before you today a new woman, healthy, healed and extremely employable.	今天在你面前,一个新的女人, 健康, 治愈和极度就业。
11	You wouldn't even be able to tell from just looking at me that I was once the weird little	你甚至连看一眼都看不出来我曾经是个怪胎
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13	the bathroom.	厕所。
14	This is a story that I've told in academic essays, job interviews and even in the very	这是我在学术论文、工作面试,甚至...
15	application that got me into this fine university.	申请让我进入这所好大学
16	It's also a story that despite all of its truth, I've come to hate.	这也是一个故事,尽管它的所有真理,我来到了恨。
17	Now this is a story that I don't have copyright claim over.	这个故事我并没有版权要求。
18	It's one that continues to be regurgitated by immigrant kids all across the country to	它继续被移民孩子全国各地的
19	{\fn黑体\fs22\bord1\shad0\3aHBE\4aH00\fscx67\fscy66\2cHFFFFFF\3cH808080}在银盘上供奉 {\fn黑体\fs22\bord1\shad0\3aHBE\4aH00\fscx67\fscy66\2cHFFFFFF\3cH808080}那些口吐这些故事的大学
20	out acceptance letters in return.	取出验收函作为回报。
21	The contents of the story may change.	故事的内容可能会改变.
22	Instead of a difficult immigration experience, it might be the death of a loved one, a chronic	而不是一个艰难的移民经历, 它可能是一个爱人的死亡, 一个慢性
23	illness or a racist encounter.	疾病或种族主义的遭遇。
24	But what remains constant is the moral.	但始终不变的是道德。
25	A bad thing happened to me, but it made me a good person.	一件坏事发生在我身上, 但它让我成为一个好人。
26	This is part of the larger phenomenon that I'm here to talk about today.	这是我今天在这里要谈的大现象的一部分。
27	The overwhelming pressure being put on high school students to write about their deepest	给高中生带来巨大的压力让他们写下最深的
28	traumas in their college application with the hopes that they seem resilient and interesting	在他们的大学申请中受到创伤希望他们看起来有弹性和有趣
29	enough to be given a spot.	足够得到一个位置。
30	I believe that these are not only bad metrics by which to evaluate applicants, but also	我认为,这些不仅是用来评价申请人的坏指标,而且也是用来评价申请人的坏指标。
31	incredibly harmful to the storyteller themselves and risks reinforcing existing inequities	对讲故事者本身极为有害,有可能加剧现有的不平等
32	in higher education.	高等教育。
33	There's also pressure that's being amplified by admissions counselors themselves who play	也有压力被放大通过招生咨询自己玩
34	a huge role in influencing what applicants decide to write about.	影响申请人决定写什么
35	Take for example this tip from the MIT admissions blog where the author compares two different	以麻省理工学院招生的博客为例作者比较了两个不同的
36	introductions for a potential essay.	潜在论文的介绍。
37	The first one reads,	第一个是:
38	As long as I can remember, I've had a love affair with books.	只要我记得,我和书有恋爱
39	Since I was 11, I've wanted to be a librarian.	从11岁起,我就想当图书馆员
40	The second introduction reads,	第二个导言是:
41	When I was 11, my great-aunt Gretchen passed away and left me something that changed my	11岁时,我的姑姑格蕾琴去世,留下了改变我的东西
42	life, a library of about 5,000 books.	生活,图书馆藏书约5000册.
43	Some of my best days were spent arranging and reading her books.	我最好的一天是安排和阅读她的书
44	Since then, I've wanted to become a librarian.	从此,我想成为图书馆员.
45	The author notes that the second introduction is much more striking and leaves a much better	提交人指出,第二个导言更引人注目,留下了更好的内容。
46	impression.	感觉。
47	Consider another tip from collegeessayguide.com where he advises students to get personal.	想想大学的又一消息,
48	He says,	他说,
49	Weirdly, including painful memories and what you learn from them usually helps a personal	奇怪的是,包括痛苦的记忆和你从中学到的东西通常帮助个人
50	statement meet the goals of a college application essay.	声明达到了大学应用论文的目标。
51	You come off as humble, accessible, likeable, and mature.	你变得谦卑容易接近可爱成熟
52	Confessions from admissions officers themselves can also be telling.	招生人员本身的供述也可以说得出来。
53	Aya Waller-Bey, a former admissions officer from Georgetown University, said in a Forbes	Aya Waller-Bey是乔治城大学的一位前入学官员,他在福布斯杂志上说
54	article that,	条款,
55	Within months on the job, I saw how the personal statements of black and other racially minoritized	几个月之内,我看到黑人和其他种族的人的言论
56	students deferred from those of white applicants.	被白人申请人推迟的学生。
57	Black students highlighted resilience through stories of survival, while their counterparts	黑人学生通过生存故事强调应变能力,
58	wrote casual essays about service abroad and sporting championships.	撰写关于海外服务和体育锦标赛的散文。
59	Black students shared their pain.	黑人学生分享他们的痛苦。
60	White students shared their passions.	白人学生分享他们的热情.
61	Now, lastly, and perhaps the least reliable source, is my own life.	最后,也许最不可靠的来源是我自己的生活。
62	I remember feeling this way when I was applying to universities.	我记得我申请大学时有这种感觉
63	Like I had no other choice, no other experiences worthy of mentioning, and no other merit beyond	我别无选择,没有其他值得一提的经验,除了这些之外,没有其他优点
64	the fact that I had thrived despite what I had gone through.	尽管我经历了很多事,但我还是很兴旺
65	I even remember worrying that my tale wouldn't be harrowing enough after hearing from a counselor	我甚至记得,我担心我的故事听到一个律师的消息后,不会很痛苦
66	that writing about immigration has become a bit of a cliché because of how overused it is.	有关移民的写作已经变得有点陈词滥调因为它是如何过度使用。
67	So, what's the university's role in all of this?	那么,大学在这一切中的作用是什么?
68	And why are these stories even harmful to begin with?	为什么一开始这些故事甚至有害呢?
69	Well, I believe that using your college application essay to discuss your trauma actually doesn't	我相信用你的大学申请论文来讨论你的创伤其实不是
70	help you process it.	帮助你处理它。
71	And there are a couple different reasons why.	有几个不同的原因
72	First, writing about a difficult experience is, as you may have guessed, difficult.	首先,写一个困难的经历,正如你可能猜到的,是困难的.
73	Not only do you have to relive the event itself, but you also have to actively suppress any	你不仅必须重温事件本身而且必须积极压制任何
74	negative emotions that arise during the process.	过程中出现的负面情绪。
75	That kind of emotional labor can be taxing for anybody, but perhaps especially so for	这种情感劳动可以为任何人征税,但也许特别是因为
76	these young applicants who haven't had enough time on this world to process the terrible	这些年轻的申请人还没有足够时间在这个世界上处理可怕的
77	things that have happened to them.	那些发生在他们身上的事
78	For that space to be one in which they're confessing to a faceless stranger who gets	为了那个空间他们向一个无脸的陌生人坦白
79	to make the most consequential decision of their adolescent life imposes an incredibly	在青少年生活中做出最直接的决定将给青少年带来巨大的压力
80	heavy psychological burden.	沉重的心理负担。
81	I mean, imagine if you walked into your therapy appointment and your therapist tells you that	我的意思是,想象如果你走进你的治疗预约你的治疗师告诉你
82	they're not going to respond to anything you tell them except with a rejection or acceptance	他们不会回应你告诉他们的除了拒绝或接受
83	email sent months later.	几个月后发送电子邮件。
84	And also that whatever you tell them would determine the trajectory of your entire academic	而且无论你告诉他们什么都将决定你整个学术的轨迹
85	and professional career.	和职业生涯。
86	Hard to imagine that being therapeutic.	很难想象那是治疗。
87	Secondly, the trauma essay makes one assumption that is extremely problematic.	第二,创伤论文提出了一种极端有问题的假设。
88	It's not always the learning opportunity through which you can gain more confidence	并不是总有学习的机会,你可以藉此获得更多的信心
89	or develop better time management skills.	或培养更好的时间管理技能。
90	Sometimes it's just a sucky thing that really sucks.	有时它只是一个烂东西真的很烂。
91	And asking students to prove how they turn their pain into progress ignores this truth	要求学生证明他们如何将痛苦转化为进步忽视了这个事实
92	and falls prey to the toxic positivity narrative that everything happens for a reason, ignoring	并被毒害绝对的叙述, 一切发生的原因,忽略
93	the very valid resentment and anger that many victims still feel.	许多受害者仍然感到非常愤慨和愤怒。
94	Lastly, the things we write aren't just informed by your experiences.	最后,我们写的东西不只是从你的经验中得知。
95	They shape how we view those experiences as well.	它们也决定了我们如何看待这些经验。
96	And if we're writing about our trauma to prove to our admissions officer that we are	如果我们在写我们的创伤来向我们的警官证明我们是
97	worthy of a decent education, then it becomes necessary to sanitize our pain, to make it	值得好好教育,然后必须消毒我们的痛苦,使之
98	marketable and strategic, to scrub away all the suffering.	市场化和战略性的, 清除所有的痛苦。
99	So all that's left is what will fit into the narrow margins of what is palatable.	因此,剩下的就是什么将适应于什么是可喜的狭小边缘。
100	And this is what I see as being the fundamental contradiction at the heart of the trauma essay.	这是我所认为的创伤论文的核心根本的矛盾。
101	It seems to get the writer free rein of vulnerability, but actually leaves them very little room	这似乎让作家自由控制弱势, 但实际上给他们留下了很小的空间
102	to be vulnerable.	变得脆弱
103	Your story has to be just sad enough that it gains sympathy, but not so sad that it	你的故事必须够悲哀的才会得到同情但不是那么悲哀
104	makes you seem beyond help.	让你看起来无可救药
105	Just critical enough to inspire change, but not so much that it actually criticizes systemic	足够刺激变革,但并不严重以至于它实际上批评系统
106	structures.	结构。
107	Just honest enough to seem real, but not so unfiltered that it creates discomfort.	只是很诚实,看起来很真实, 但并不是没有被过滤到造成不适。
108	The protagonist also overcomes whatever struggle they're facing by the end of the 500 word	主角也克服了500字末他们面对的任何斗争
109	count, instilling the reader with a sense of optimism that despite our deeply unequal	使读者感到乐观尽管我们很不平等
110	society, it is possible to rise through the ranks and overcome all the isms.	社会,有可能通过队伍崛起,克服所有的问题。
111	This of course is not the reality of our world today.	这当然不是当今世界的现实。
112	And for me, this looked like settling for the familiar story of the stinky lunch, one	对我来说,这看起来像是定居在熟悉的故事臭午餐,一个
113	that's been told so many times that it's devoid of any real meaning.	这已经被告知很多次了, 它没有任何真正的意义。
114	Instead of talking about the ongoing social and political disenfranchisement of immigrants,	而不是谈论持续剥夺移民的社会和政治权利,
115	the permanent loss of cultural identity that I suffered, or the sense of disbelonging that	永远失去我遭受的文化认同, 或失去归属感
116	still haunts me every time I make a grammar mistake or someone mispronounces my name.	每次我犯语法错误或有人发错我的名字都会困扰着我
117	These are all struggles that never really go away, but are carefully tucked away in	这些都是从未真正消失的挣扎, 但被小心地塞进
118	my essay because they don't fit the linear narrative that is being constructed.	我的散文因为不符合线性叙述正在构建。
119	But how are universities to blame for all of this?	但大学怎么怪这一切呢?
120	I mean, they never explicitly ask students to trauma dump in their essays, and many admissions	我的意思是,他们从来没有明确要求学生创伤倾倒在他们的论文, 和很多录取
121	experts have actually come out and discouraged discussing explicit trauma in essays.	专家实际上已经出来,并劝阻在论文中讨论明显的创伤.
122	However, I still don't think that universities are blameless.	然而,我仍然不认为大学是无可指责的.
123	The reason why the trauma essay is so ubiquitous is because it seems to be working.	创伤的散文之所以如此无处不在,是因为它似乎奏效了.
124	Anne Trebek, who helped low-income high school students at Oberlin College write their essays,	安妮·特雷贝克,帮助奥伯林学院的低收入高中生写作论文,
125	expresses the ethical dilemma that she faces.	表达她面临的道德困境。
126	By pushing students to reveal their horror stories, I risk taking away their dignity.	逼学生揭开恐怖故事,我冒着失去尊严的风险.
127	But by not pushing, I could be hindering their chances of getting into their dream schools.	但是,通过不推, 我可能阻碍他们进入他们的梦想学校的机会。
128	Whether trauma essays and acceptance letters are actually causally correlated	创伤的散文和接受函是否实际上因果相关
129	is impossible to tell from the outside.	无法从外部得知。
130	So this could all just be speculation and myth.	所以这一切都可能只是猜测和神话。
131	But in failing to resolutely clear up the speculation and myths about whether trauma	但没能彻底澄清创伤的猜测和神话
132	essays are rewarded or discouraged, universities are indirectly enabling the rise of the trauma	论文得到奖励或劝阻,大学间接导致创伤增加
133	essay and all of its harmful implications.	论文及其所有有害的影响。
134	So what are they to do about all of this?	那么,他们该怎么办这一切?
135	Well, first of all, I think that this is a problem that goes much deeper than individual	首先,我认为这是一个比个人更深的问题
136	universities and even perhaps the institution of higher education itself.	大学,甚至高等教育机构本身。
137	It's rooted in the cultural obsession with appropriating trauma and making it consumable,	它植根于文化迷恋占用创伤使它消费,
138	as well as the systemic tendency to tokenize oppressed people and their experiences.	以及将被压迫人民及其经历作为象征的系统性倾向。
139	But there are still things that universities can do to make things better.	但大学仍然可以做一些事情来改善事情。
140	First, they can be more transparent about their admissions guidelines.	首先,它们可以更加透明地介绍其录取准则。
141	If it's really true that they don't want to reward trauma storytelling just for the	如果真的,他们不想奖赏创伤故事只为
142	sake of it, then they should be more forthcoming about this expectation.	因此,他们应该更加积极地对待这一期望。
143	They could also restructure their prompts to avoid putting pressure on students to	他们还可以调整他们的提示,避免对学生施加压力,迫使他们:
144	talk about past hardships and adversities and instead refocus prompts to ask students	讨论过去的困难和困难,
145	about their goals for the future and their academic interests.	关于他们未来的目标和学术利益。
146	Secondly, admissions counselors should be trauma-informed and trained in working with	第二,应让入院辅导员了解心理创伤,并培训他们如何与外界合作。
147	As the unofficial gatekeepers to the secrets of getting into your dream college, they	作为非官方守门员秘密进入你的梦想学院,他们
148	should wield this power responsibly and not pressure students to talk about traumatic	应该负责任地行使这种权力,而不是强迫学生谈论创伤
149	experiences that they're not yet ready to talk about.	他们还没有准备好谈论的经验。
150	Lastly, and this one's for anyone who's actually applying to a post-secondary	最后,这个是给真正申请中学后学位的人的
151	institution sometime soon, remember that you are more than the bad things that happen to you.	不久之后,要记住, 你不仅仅是发生在你的坏事。
152	I know that when it seems like every other classmate of yours is writing an essay that	我知道,当你的同学似乎都在写一篇论文
153	could be adapted for an HBO original drama that you may feel like your experiences are	可以改编为HBO的原创剧情你可能觉得你的经验是
154	not worth talking about, but I promise that they are.	不值得谈, 但我保证他们是。
155	You just have to find your voice and use it.	你只需要找到自己的声音并使用它。
156	Now, as much as I don't want to live that nail-bitingly stressful time of my life ever	现在,虽然我不想过那段我生命中紧张不堪的日子
157	again, I can't help but wonder, what would I have written about if I got the chance to	再次,我不能不想知道, 如果我有机会
158	apply to UBC again, this time absent the pressure to strategically use my immigrant	再次申请UBC,这次没有压力从战略上使用我的移民
159	background to gain sympathy points?	获取同情点的背景?
160	Maybe I would have written about how I overcame my fear of public speaking and became	也许我会写到我如何克服对公开演讲的恐惧
161	comfortable with being the loudest voice in the room, or I could have written about	成为房间里最响亮的声音, 或者我可以写下
162	watching trashy reality television is what first sparked my interest in political science,	看垃圾现实的电视是我第一次对政治学的兴趣
163	or maybe I still would have written about my immigrant story because that was a big part of	或者我还是会写我的移民故事因为这很重要
164	my life journey and still impacts me to this day, but I would have done it on my own terms.	我的生命之旅仍然影响着我的今天但我本可以自己做
165	Instead of being written as a one-dimensional trauma turn triumph drama drama, I would have	而不是被写成单维的创伤变成成功的戏剧剧情
166	been able to tell a story that actually reflects who I am today and acknowledge the fact that my	能够讲述一个真正反映我今天是谁的故事并承认我
167	journey is ongoing and it doesn't begin or end with my racial identity.	旅途还在进行中并不是从我的种族身份开始或结束
168	This is the kind of ownership that I wish for everyone to one day have over their story,	我希望每个人都能有这种主人翁感
169	and now it's up for universities to decide whether they get to tell it.	现在由大学来决定他们是否该说出来
170	Thank you.	谢谢

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