It's a tricky question to answer, but for a snapshot, the Wall Street Journal examined this year's freshman classes at eight highly selective colleges to find out where they went to high school.

回答这个问题是非常棘手的，但是可以简略的说一下。华尔街日报在选定的八所高等学校中调查了今年的大一新生，看看他们读的是哪所高中。

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You're smart, you have everything you possibly could do in high school, but in the committee process (that highly selective schools use) it was not quite clear that you really stood out.

你很聪明，你在高中表现的很好，但是在招生审批过程（招生非常严格挑剔的院校通常采用）中不太确定你是否脱颖而出。

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High school students interested in continued division, there are more than the primary selective.

中学生的兴趣不断分化，比小学生则有更多的选择性。

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Clair, now a sophomore at Bard, another selective high school.

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Wattendorf, a senior at Northern Virginia's super-selective Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, stood before prospective members of its Black Student Union in the fall and introduced himself as the club's president.

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The comparison doesn't sit well with the British student, who's currently in Year 8 at Colchester County high school, a selective girl's grammar school in Essex, England.

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