许多学院和大学都已干劲十足地投入到自主招生工作中。学生和家长都热衷于穿梭在那些知名大学之间，参加考试。

Many colleges and universities have ploughed into enrolling students independently. Both students and parents are keen on shuttling between those famous universities for taking examinations.

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But even then, that may not be enough."-- Because once you don't get tenure in one place, you don't go up in terms of the ranking of the school-- you very often would get tenure but elsewhere, school that is not considered as good as the one where you were rejected.

即使到了那时，可能也不够-,如果在一所学校无法获得终身职位，就没有可能在更高学府取得-,经常是在别的院校获得，那些比拒绝你的学院,差一等的院校。

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