Britains who pass their A levels may still not qualify for a top university at home, but find American universities far more welcoming.

些通过了A等级的英国学生也许仍不够格本国的顶尖大学，但是美国大学对他们热情得多了。

For public institutions, state funds are sometimes tied partly to their success on metrics such as graduation rates and student retention - so better grades can, by boosting figures like those, mean more money.

对于公共机构而言，国家专项拨款或多或少会取决于高校在其毕业率和学生率等方面的表现，因此，通过提高诸如此类的数字，会有更好的成绩，也意味着更多的钱。

We sent our child to kindergarten last September.

我们去年九月把小孩送到幼儿园。

" About to be Sorted, I suppose? " A few people nodded mutely. " Hope to see you in Hufflepuff! " said the Friar. " My old house, you know."

有些学生默默地点点头。“希望你们能分到赫奇帕奇! ”修士说，“我以前个学院。”

Students must be enrolled in either of these departments.

学生必须这两个系中的任何一个。

He went to Oxford, she went to Harvard.

德仁天皇曾于牛津大学而雅子皇后毕业于哈佛大学。

Why don't you not read Schopenhauer and Nietzsche as a teenager?

你为什么不在青少年时期叔本华和尼采？

Our friends at " Great Big Story" caught with him during his sophomore year.

我们在《大故事》栏目的朋友找到了正于高一年级的他。

Whenever I'm missing England, I read Thomas Hardy.

每当我想念英国时，我托马斯·哈代的书。

Oh, cool. What grade are you guys in?

酷，你们几年级？

Admitting that we need help is hard, and doing so can be especially difficult for students who attend Princeton – you are all extraordinarily talented and you are accustomed to succeeding.

承认我们需要帮助显得有些困难，对于于普林斯顿大学的学生来说，这样做尤其困难——你们都才华横溢，而且习惯于成功了。

He attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School.

他过哈佛大学和哥伦比亚大学法学院。

Hi, I'm Kavya. I am the senior class treasurer I'm from Miami Florida and I'm studying the school of Public and International Affairs.

嗨，我是卡维亚。我是高级财务主管，来自佛罗里达州迈阿密，于公共与国际事务学院。

Because they didn't receive the same kind of help that they might have received had they gone to a school with better funding. - Good, alright.

因为他们获得的辅导，与他们如果能资金充裕的学校所能获得的辅导不同。- 好。

And, of course, Jimmy Hom will be starting at Harvard in the fall.

当然，何吉米今年秋天要开始于哈佛了。

In 1972, Jobs headed to Oregon, where he attended a small liberal arts college.

1972年，乔布斯前往俄勒冈州，于一所小型文理学院。

I was like, yeah, but I've seen the vision so I went and enrolled in law school, but did acting sneaky at night to try to get in there.

我当时想，是的，但我已经看到了这个愿景，所以我去了法学院，但在晚上偷偷摸摸地练习表演试图进入里。

Now I research higher education to understand how our perceptions of which colleges are good shape important decisions we make about which schools to fund, donate to, attend, and send our children to.

现在我研究的是高等教育，我想了解我们对于哪些大学比较好的观感如何形塑我们的重要决策，比如要资助哪些学校、要捐款给哪些学校、要或送我们的孩子去哪些学校。

People often think that, you know, traditionally you take a light easy read for the beachand on the train, um, you maybe read something very different.

你知道，如果是在沙滩上，人们会想一些浅显易懂的书籍，如果是在火车上，些截然不同的。

You can measure it from the school they were in before.

你可以和他们原本的学校比较。