什么样的学生才能上哈佛大学

What Types of Student Makes It Into Harvard Today?

什么样的学生才能上哈佛大学？

3/19/2013

2013年3月19日

Harvard University President Drew Faust says Chinese students represent the largest group of foreigners attending the university. She tells the WSJ’s Deborah Kan what it takes to get into Harvard today.

哈佛大学校长Drew Faust称中国学生构成了哈佛最大的海外留学生群体。在接受华尔街日报记者Deborah Kan的采访过程中，她谈到了如今哈佛大学对申请人的要求。

 

Interview:

访谈内容：

I’m Deborah Kan from the Wall Street Journal digital network. Joining me now is Drew Faust, the President of Harvard. Good to see you.

我是华尔街日报数字网的Deborah Kan，今天来到我们节目的是Drew Faust，哈佛大学的校长。很高兴见到您。

 

-          How many students going to Harvard are coming from Asia? Where are they coming from and are their numbers increasing?

-          哈佛有多少学生是来自亚洲的呢？他们来自哪个国家，来自亚洲的学生是否越来越多了？

-          The numbers are increasing and now the students from China represent the largest non-US source of students, so this is an area of tremendous draw for us. We want to expand those numbers and have the very best students think about us and come to join us.

-          来自亚洲的学生的确越来越多了，来自中国的学生占非美国籍学生的最大比重。因此这个领域的招生对我们来说具有很大吸引力。我们希望扩大来自中国的学生人数，让最优秀的学生考虑申请哈佛大学。

 

-          Last year, how many students from China came to Harvard?

去年，哈佛有多少来自中国的学生？

-          A little more than 650 students from China.

-          稍稍多于650人。

 

-          How was that different from previous series?

-          这根以前几年有什么不同呢?

-          It has grown dramatically in the last 6 to 8 years. It is a steady increase.

-          过去6到8年中，来自中国的学生人数增长得很快。并且增长呈现十分稳定的趋势。

 

-          There’s a lot debate about the western vs eastern style of education, eastern being more restricted, western being more liberal arts oriented and open to questioning. How does Harvard bridge that gap, because students are coming from an entirely different education system?

-          对于东西方的教育风格有很多争议，东方更循规蹈矩，而西方更注重博雅教育，鼓励学生提出问题。面对来自不同教育体制背景的学生，哈佛是如何处理这种差异的呢?

-          We look at the whole student and make sure the student is academically excellent. We want to see measurement of that. But we are not interested inclusively in test scores and grades, we want to see what this student has done outside the academic sphere, does this student have a broad range of interests, what contribution in what areas this student might make to the community at Harvard. We are also interested in characters, what can we find out about who this person is and what this person’s standards for him or herself are and that would mean with him the community as well. So that is something we want to find evidence of, this is a very important aspect in the qualification of the students who want admission into Harvard.

-          我们会全面地考察学生。不仅确保学生学习优秀，我们希望看到量化的指标。但是我们不仅仅看重考试成绩和分数，我们感兴趣的是：学生在课堂之外从事的活动，学生是否兴趣广泛，能否为哈佛在某个领域做出贡献，我们对于学生的个性非常关注，学生对于自身有什么要求，是否跟哈佛的精神相融合。这是我们希望在学生身上看到的，这是我们招收学生时，极为看重的一方面。

 

-          As the world becomes more global and competitive, how is the applicant changing and what are you looking for today versus 10 years ago?

-          随着全球化的发展，外界的竞争愈加激烈，相较于10年前，申请哈佛的学生以及哈佛的录取标准发生了怎样的变化?

-          The applicants are more global. There are more people from around the world thinking about Harvard. We also have changed our financial aid policy to expand our support to lower income students. So we are looking more broadly at students from economic backgrounds that may not thought of Harvard. We have a long time a need blind admission policy but often weren’t aware of this. So now we are trying to be more determined about our desire for students from diverse economic back ground. That is an important aspect on broadening the range of our students in term of their economic circumstances.

-          申请学生越来越国际化。越来越多世界各地的人们考虑选择哈佛。我们调整了资助政策，从而为低收入的学生群体提供援助。我们关注更多不同经济背景的学生，他们从前可能从未考虑过申请哈佛。哈佛的录取政策一直秉承“不考虑资金需求”的原则，但是很多学生不清楚这一点。因此我们想要进一步强调我们的招生宗旨，欢迎来自不同经济背景的学生加入我们。从学生的经济条件来讲，这对于提升学生群体的多元化意义重大。

 

-          How important are test scores? Can you get into Harvard without a 4.0 or above GPA?

-          考试成绩对于录取有多大的重要性？如果平均绩点没有达到4.0以上，是否能被哈佛录取？

-          Yes, you can. We try to look at the academic qualifications of student in a variety of ways. Test scores tell us something but certainly not everything. How have students done is the school also tell us something, but again not everything. We look at students’ evaluation from faculty members. We look at the widest range of attributes that might identify their academic qualifications including interviews for almost all of our applicants with alumnus and others to assess their personal qualifications as well as intellectual ones.

-          可以的，我们关注的是学生各个方面的学习表现。考试成绩是一方面，但不是所有内容。学生在校表现也能反映学生的能力,但也不是全部。我们还会关注学校对学生的评价，极为全面地考察学生的素质，从中综合评价学生的学习能力.比如校友或校方代表要对每名申请者进行面试，从而评估学生的个人素质以及学术能力。

 

Thank you very much, President Drew Faust, for joining us in Hong Kong. For more on-line interview, please go to www.wsj.com.

Drew Faust校长，非常感谢您到香港参加我们的节目！获取更多采访信息，请登录www.wsj.com。