Module 2　Highlights of My Senior Year

　　你知道在美国，高中毕业生是怎样申请上大学的吗？下面就让我们一块儿了解一下吧！

　　Sensing tough competition for college admission，high school seniors in the United States are applying to more colleges than ever before.

　　Some of the country's top students are applying to a dozen or more universities，in the hope of having more choices.And colleges are trying to improve their status by choosing better students.

　　The admission process has been made easier by technology.Students can now apply to some colleges and even pay their fee with the click of a mouse.

　　"I don't think you can afford to only have one school you really like，in case you don't get into it，"said Daniel，who applied to 11 universities.

　　Large numbers of applications usually bring more than one acceptance，which is quite different from the situation for Chinese students.However，more acceptances for American students force them to make tough decisions.Samantha Sagui applied to 16 colleges.Although she was not accepted by several colleges，she still had to choose from six.Even with choices，she said，the unexpected rejection was tough.

Admission officers have an idea of what percentage of accepted students will actually enroll，but the battle for good students who have made a large number of applications could mean that those expectations are wrong."We are really worried now，"said John Mahoney，undergraduate admission director at Boston College."We hope we've accepted the right people to make up our freshman classes."College admissions，even at Harvard，may be more uncertain these days.Bill Fitzmons，dean of undergraduate admissions，said that only 79 percent of students accepted by Harvard enrolled.Last year the school took nearly 100 students from its waiting list.