Selective schools that aspire to be at the very top will likely not reset tuition.

那些有志于保持顶尖地位的择优学校可能不会调整学费。

If you want to apply to selective and highly selective schools, you need to learn how to talk about yourself.

如果你想申请名牌大学，你需要学会如何谈论自己。

And they want selective schools like Harvard to stop considering race altogether.

他们希望哈佛大学等重点学校不再考虑种族因素。

Their appointments mean that six of the eight highly selective schools are led by a female president.

她们的任命意味着，在8所高度择优录取的学校中，有6所学校是由女校长领导的。

Selective schools don't systematically employ better instructional approaches than less-selective schools.

精英学校并没有系统地采用比非精英学校更好的教学方法。

The debate over selective schools has raged for years.

关于精英学校的争论已经持续了多年。

I have information here from a few of the most selective schools.

Yasmin：我这里有一些最有选择性的学校的信息。

By some studies, selective schools do enhance their graduates' lifetime earnings.

根据一些研究，精英学校确实提高了毕业生的终生收入。

A well-known study examined students who got into highly selective schools and then went elsewhere.

一项著名的研究调查了进入名牌学校然后去了其他学校的学生。

Ryan Lessing is a student at Brown University, a highly selective school that requires a test score.

Ryan Lessing 是布朗大学的一名学生， 这是一所需要考试成绩的高选择性学校。

Indeed, the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils is reduced to almost zero for children in selective schools.

事实上，对于精英学校的孩子来说，贫富学生之间的成绩差距几乎为零。

They could, as a condition of opening a new selective school, be asked to establish a good, new non-selective school.

作为开办新精英学校的条件，他们可以被要求建立一所好的、新的非精英学校。

This is down to " hereditarian" science and a recent paper claimed, " differences in exam performance between pupils attending selective and non-selective schools mirror the genetic differences between them."

这归结为“遗传论”学说，且最近的一篇论文声称“就读精英学校和非精英学校的学生在考试成绩上的差异反映了他们之间的基因差异”。

While there is no such thing as a tutor-proof test, many selective schools are already employing much smarter tests that assess the true potential of every child.

虽然没有导师证明测试这样的东西，但许多精英学校已经在采用更智能的测试来评估每个孩子的真正潜力。

I mean,in some schools here in Los Angeles, it can cost $15,000 a year to send your child to a selective school,often more than it costs to send someone to a year of college.

我的意思是， 在洛杉矶这里的一些学校，将您的孩子送到一所精英学校每年可能要花费 15, 000 美元， 通常比送一个人上一年大学的费用还要多。

K) The Washington Post reported on a recent study by Princeton economists, in which college graduates who applied to the most selective schools in the 12th grade were compared to those who applied to slightly less selective schools.

K) 《华盛顿邮报》报道了普林斯顿经济学家最近的一项研究，其中将 12 年级申请最精英学校的大学毕业生与那些申请稍差学校的毕业生进行了比较。