prep schools

After decades of being dominated by male students coming from a narrow network of prep schools, these schools have become a patchwork of diversity& gender, race, religion and now geography.

在被来自少数固定预科学校的男学生主宰了几十年之后，这些一流高校已经成为多元化的万花筒&性别、种族、宗教，现在还包括地域。

So far, 51% of law schools have cut the size of their entering classes, according to a November survey of law school admissions officers by Kaplan Test Prep, the education and career services provider.

教育与职业培训服务机构卡普兰考试培训学校（Kaplan Test Prep）11月对法学院招生办人员进行的一项调查显示，迄今为止，已有51%的法学院缩减了入学新生的班级规模。

Gary: A lot of top people in America went to prep schools.

美国很多顶尖人物，都读过预备学校。

They attend one of the Houston area's most prestigious college prep schools, John Cooper.

他们上的是休斯敦地区最富名望的大学预备学校，John Cooper。

WASP culture, though it exists in pockets of private life country clubs, neighborhoods, a few prep schools and law firms is finished as a phenomenon of public significance.

WASP文化尽管在私生活领域――乡村俱乐部、社区、少数预科学校和律师事务所――依然存在，但它作为公共意义上的一种现象已经寿终正寝了。

Prep schools, girls' schools and schools located in some areas of the north of England are already being hit by falling pupil numbers.

学生数量减少，已使预备学校、女校以及位于英国北部一些地区的学校受到打击。

By the 1970s, exclusive universities and prep schools began dropping their age-old quotas on Catholics and Jews, lessening the number of legacies automatically admitted, and using racial preferences to encourage the enrollment of blacks.

到了1970年代，严格限制生源的大学和预科学校开始放弃它们对天主教徒和犹太人由来已久的配额限制，减少自动录取的传统名额，用种族优惠政策鼓励招收黑人。

An increasing number of prep schools have moved into lower age groups in recent years – prompted by the childcare needs of wealthy double-income parents and a move in starting ages at many senior schools from 13 to 11, say heads.

近年来，越来越多的预备学校开始面向更低龄群体。校长们表示，这一是由于富有的双职工家庭需要有人照看孩子，二是因为许多中学的入学年龄从13岁降到11岁。

First, Zimny's company would provide tutoring and supervision while the boys attended American prep schools.

首先，奇姆尼的公司会在孩子就读美国预科学校期间为其提供辅导和监督。

Top prep schools from around the world are opening campuses in the country, often charging higher fees than their flagships and catering to students who want to go to university in the West.

来自全球的顶尖私立预备学校纷纷在中国办学，收费通常高于其“旗舰”学校，且面向想去西方读大学的学生。

After decades of being dominated by male students coming from a narrow network of prep schools, these schools have become a patchwork of diversity-gender, race, religion and now geography.

在被来自少数固定预科学校的男学生主宰了几十年之后，这些一流高校已经成为多元化的万花筒——性别、种族、宗教，现在还包括地域。

" Prep schools teach students something, or better, provides them with resources, that others do not learn or have," he says.

可以说，预科学校教给学生提供了非预科学校的学生无法企及的教育平台。

There are lots of different ways to be the best* and prep schools give ample space to be good at something.

学生可以从多个角度来看待这个问题，可以在某个方面变得优秀，预科学校给学生们提供了足够宽广的空间去探知自己所擅长的事物。