【趣文分享】拒信天上来，学校乐开怀 - 美国大学靠发拒信能赚多少美刀？

 

 

原文 Audri Taylors - University Herald

译文 吴天磊

The college admissions process is a tough and tedious process. College applicants spend so many hours filling out college applications, writing their essays, studying for the admissions test, and patiently waiting for months to hear back from the schools they have applied for, only to find out in the end that they will be rejected in some. While it may be a sad news for students who receive rejections from their dream schools, some colleges actually reap the benefits from it.

大学申请是个折磨人的过程。无数申请者花了数百个小时来填写申请表格，撰写文书，学习备考，最后发现自己仅仅为收到一纸拒信又等了数个月。这是一个让所有学生都胆寒心碎的画面，然而对于某些大学来说，却能足足捞上一笔。

There are a number of colleges and universities that earn a lot from rejected applications. How? Because when they offer cheaper admissions test to applicants, it will increase the number of submitted applications, while there will still be a low turn out of qualified applicants. This is how students can benefit from rejected applications in the form of revenue.

很多大学都能通过被拒申请获得丰厚的利润。这笔收入来自于当他们的申请费用较为低廉时，更高的的申请人数。而往往这种情况下，收到offer的申请者还维持在原来的少数。这也意味着，这部分收到offer的少数学生能够从那些大量的“炮灰”身上收益，进入学校学习，利用学校资源。

An example is Harvard University which earns $3 million in gross profits from rejected applications every year, and that is according to UCEazy. The data from the study also show that universities are able to make over $200 million in total from rejected applications because applicants are not prepared and unqualified.

每年从被拒申请者身上获利300万美元的哈佛大学就是这样的一个例子。而数据表明，大学通过收取申请费用并拒绝那些不够格或是准备不充分的申请者，能够获得两亿美元的收入。

According to Vinnie Gupta, the founder of the study, the research was conducted in order to understand the struggle that college applicants experience to get into college. Many hopeful applicants are spending money and resources to apply to their dream schools, even if sometimes, they have a very slim chance of getting accepted.

Vinnie Gupta，这位统计数据的策划人表示，统计这些数据是为了了解大学申请者面对的困难和日益激烈的竞争。很多申请者抱着希望申请他们梦想中的大学然而大多数时候都是被“脆拒”。

 

Here are the five schools that earn the most from rejected applications.

下面是通过“拒信”获利最多的五所大学，也是申请者人数最庞大，竞争最为激烈的5所大学（2017最新统计）: 

• University of California-Los Angeles: $5,369,840 加州大学洛杉矶分校

 

申请人数：97121；被拒人数：79647；被拒率：82%

• University of California-Berkeley: $4,681,320 加州大学伯克利分校

 

申请人数：85004；被拒人数：71744；被拒率：84.4%

• Stanford University: $3,632,130 斯坦福大学

 

申请人数：44072；被拒人数：41988；被拒率：95.2%

• University of California-San Diego: $3,608,290 加州大学圣迭戈分校

 

申请人数：84209；被拒人数：53936；被拒率：64%

• University of Southern California: $3,419,440 南加州大学

 

申请人数：52915；被拒人数：42744；被拒率：82.3%

由此可见，学校越受欢迎，收到的申请数量越多；学校越好，选人越苛刻，通过被拒的申请人赚钱也越多。

智梦祝大家在申请季里被适合自己的、自己心仪的学校录取，不会成为给学校贡献利润的那一个！